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Peer reviewedDeshler, Donald D.; And Others – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1982
The author's findings about the effects of learning disabilities on adolescents are detailed according to four major areas (sample subtopics in parentheses): academic achievement and ability (low achievement and underachievement); cognitive processing (relationship between motivation and strategy use); setting demands (independent functioning);…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Intervention
Pieper, Edward L.; Deshler, Donald D. – 1980
The study involving 60 learning disabled (LD) and 30 normal achieving seventh through ninth graders was designed to identify adolescents homogeneously defined as exhibiting a "specific learning disability in arithmetic" and to determine if the cognitive processes (visual-spatial, visual-reasoning, and visual-memory) are related to the academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Arithmetic, Classification
