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Helping Readers Gain Self-Control over Reading Comprehension.

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Fitzgerald, Jill – Reading Teacher, 1983

Argues that teachers can help students become better comprehenders by helping them learn to know when they understand what they are reading and what to do when they do not. (FL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Theories, Reading Comprehension

Cognitive Training in ADHD Children: Less to It than Meets the Eye.

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Abikoff, Howard – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991

This review of 28 studies involving children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder concludes that there is little empirical support for cognitive training's clinical utility. The paper discusses cognitive training's efficacy as a single intervention and as an adjunct to stimulant treatment, and its impact on cognitive, academic, and…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes