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Visual Imagery Skills and Language Abilities of Normal and Language-Learning-Disabled Children.

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Whitmire, Beverly M.; Stone, C. Addison – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991

The study, with 15 language-learning-disabled and 15 normally achieving children (ages 6-8), found a significant positive correlation between the severity of the language disability and accuracy on 2 of 3 imagery tasks. Performance on one imagery task was significantly related to reading achievement, and imagery ability was related more strongly…

Descriptors: Imagery, Language Handicaps, Language Skills, Learning Disabilities

Effects of Instruction in the Use of a Visual-Imagery Strategy on the Reading-Comprehension Competence of Disabled and Average Readers.

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Chan, Lorna K. S.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990

The study, involving 39 intermediate-grade disabled readers, found that visualization instruction plus pictorial display, in which subjects were instructed to make pictures in their minds and were shown a pictorial display that illustrated the temporal-spatial sequence of the reading text, was particularly effective in facilitating subjects'…

Descriptors: Imagery, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies