Synthesis of Research Symposium at CLD's 33rd International Conference on Learning Disabilities: 'Must Reads for 2011'

In October 2011, Council for Learning Disabilities' (CLD's) research committee members (i.e., authors of this article) presented their "Must Reads" at the organization's 33rd Annual International Conference on Learning Disabilities. In this article, the presenters summarize a few of their selected articles and state why each article is a "Must Read." It comes as little surprise that the chosen articles address the specific recent research in the field of LD. For example, Beverly L. Weiser's articles focus on Strategic Counting Instruction and the response-to-intervention (RtI) literature for students with LD. Deborah K. Reed shares very recent developments in reading instruction and progress monitoring. Comprehension is the main topic for Caroline I. Kethley; specifically, she presents information on cognitive strategy instruction and the nature, causes, and treatments of LD. This article concludes with Patricia G. Mathes providing information from articles that represent some of the research on adolescents with LD and new neurobiological findings about dyslexia.