Emerging reading and math resilience literatures suggest candidate resilience factors across cognitive, emotion/motivation, social/environmental, and neural levels, most not yet classified as promotive or protective¶

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Currency · newest study 2025 · checked against its sources 2026-10-23 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The paper's brief review labels many reading resilience factors (e.g., verbal reasoning, grammar, morphology, executive functioning, coping skills, growth mindset, teacher support) as undetermined, offering them for hypothesis generation. → Slomowitz R. F. 2025

Evidence¶

Slomowitz R. F. 2025¶

Slomowitz R. F., Narayan A. J., & McGrath L. M. (2025). Resilience research in learning disabilities: Guiding principles from developmental psychopathology. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102090

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Narrative review section of this theoretical paper: it lists reading resilience factors across cognitive, emotion/motivation, social/environmental, and neural levels of analysis, and math resilience factors including promotive (RAN, nonverbal reasoning, counting, spatial relations; SES) and protective (number concepts, oral language, nonverbal reasoning; home numeracy environment) candidates, attributed to cited primary studies the paper does not reanalyze.

"This resilience work is just emerging in the learning disabilities literature and so no clear consensus yet exists. As such we offer these findings for hypothesis generation."

Discussion¶

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