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A Modified Spanish Sequence for Students with Language-Based Learning Disabilities
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Amend, Amanda E.; Whitney, Carolyn A.; Messuri, Antonia T.; Furukawa, Hideko – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
A two-semester modified Spanish sequence was designed to address the needs of college students with language-based learning disabilities. This course featured reduced scope, an emphasis on tactile activities, metacognitive strategies, and adaptations to the presentation and practice of material. Performances on fall and spring semester-end essays…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Spanish, Sequential Learning
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Score Patterns for Learning Disabled Young Adults. Part 1: Studies with New or Unusual Learning Disabled Populations.
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Cordoni, Barbara K.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1981
Consistent with earlier research using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the WISC-Revised, the Information, Digit Span, and Digit Symbol (i.e., Coding) subtests contribute substantially and independently to group differentiation. A. Bannatyne's Sequential factor also discriminates between these groups. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Intelligence Tests, Learning
Simultaneous-Successive Processing Model: Application to the College Population with Learning Disabilities.
Gregg, Noel; Hoy, Cheri – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1989
The study of the performance of 55 learning-disabled college students on the Raven's Progressive Matrices and other tasks found: (1) a negative correlation between visual-motor skills and written language, (2) a positive correlation between visual organization/memory and mathematics, and (3) a positive correlation between auditory memory and…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education