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Fostering Critical Thinking Skills in Students with Learning Disabilities: An Instructional Program.
Peer reviewedLeshowitz, Barry; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
Twenty-two secondary students with learning disabilities were successfully taught the principles of scientific reasoning. Using student-teacher dialogs, students analyzed information presented in magazine articles and advertisements. Students improved their ability to identify the principal claim made in an article or advertisement, graph the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Advertising, Classroom Communication, Critical Thinking
Lombardi, Thomas P.; Savage, Luise – 1992
This paper presents a rationale for teaching higher level thinking skills to students with special needs, including those with mild mental handicaps and learning disabilities. It briefly reviews the literature on teaching such skills, stressing that thinking skills can be taught through specific teaching methods such as a four-step method…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Daily Living Skills
