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Examining the Association between Language, Expository Discourse and Offending Behaviour: An Investigation of Direction, Strength and Independence
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Hopkins, Thomas; Clegg, Judy; Stackhouse, Joy – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: A high prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is reported in the population of Young Offenders (YO). However, little is known about the extent of the association between language and offending behaviour relative to social disadvantage, education attendance and non-verbal intelligence (IQ), and neither has this association…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Expository Writing
Participation and Performance of Students with Emotional Disturbance on a Statewide Accountability Assessment in Math
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Temple-Harvey, Kimberly K.; Vannest, Kimberly J. – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
The participation and performance of students in statewide accountability and assessment systems are measures of student and school success. These accountability systems theoretically reflect performance for all students, including students receiving special education. Yet few examine the participation and performance of students in special…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Student Participation, Accountability
The Meaning of Autism: Beyond Disorder
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O'Neil, Sara – Disability & Society, 2008
The incidence of autism spectrum disorders has increased dramatically over the past two decades, yet these disorders are still poorly understood. By considering the viewpoints of autistics themselves, together with evidence from the scientific literature, it becomes clear that autism spectrum disorders are not always the debilitating conditions…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence, Scientific Principles
Heterogeneity within the Gifted: Higher IQ Boys Exhibit Behaviors Resembling Boys with Learning Disabilities.
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Shaywitz, Sally E.; Holahan, John M.; Freudenheim, Daniele A.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Makuch, Robert W.; Shaywitz, Bennett A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2001
A study involving boys (grades 4-7) who were highly gifted (n=18), low gifted (n=17), had learning disabilities (n=26), and were typical (n=26), found highly gifted boys exhibited levels of behavioral problems similar to those with learning disabilities, whereas low gifted boys had lower levels than boys with learning disabilities. (Contains…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Hyperactivity
Relationships Between WAIS Verbal Versus Performance Decrements and Bender-Gestalt Errors.
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Wagner, Edwin E.; McCormick, Mary Kathleen – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Subjects with higher verbal than performance IQ's achieved significantly poorer Pascal-Suttell Bender-Gestalt scores than subjects with higher performance over verbal IQ's. The latter subjects were more likely to have dropped out of high school and to have spent some time in prison. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Problems, Clinical Diagnosis
Intellectual Patterns of Conduct Problem Children on the WISC-R.
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Paget, Kathleen D. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Analyzed WISC-R profiles of 42 conduct problem children to generate hypotheses concerning the children's intellectual strengths and weaknesses. Used a variety of subtest groupings to interpret ability patterns. Findings revealed relative strengths in perceptual organization skills, and weaknesses in skills that involve sequencing, memory, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Children, Cognitive Style
Relationship between Personality Adjustment and High Intelligence: Terman versus Hollingworth.
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Grossberg, Ingrid N.; Cornell, Dewey G. – Exceptional Children, 1988
Eighty-three gifted children, aged 7-11, and their parents completed self-report instruments on personality adjustment. Intelligence was positively related to adjustment. Compared to the group as a whole, the children with higher IQs were less anxious and nervous and less likely to evidence problems in physical development, cognitive development,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Gifted