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Bishara, Saied; Kaplan, Shani – World Journal of Education, 2016
The goal of the research was to examine executive functioning and figurative language comprehension among students with learning disabilities as compared to students without learning disabilities. As part of the research, we examined 20 students with learning disabilities and 21 students with no learning disabilities, both groups of students…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Learning Disabilities, Figurative Language, Grade 7
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Horowitz-Kraus, Tzipi – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Adolescents with dyslexia exhibit well-established impairments in executive abilities. The Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST) is an executive test that yields surprisingly inconsistent results with this population. The current study aimed to shed light on the contradictory findings in the literature regarding the performance levels by individuals…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adolescents, Dyslexia, Cognitive Tests