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Hayek, Maisam; Dorfberger, Shoshi; Karni, Avi – Developmental Science, 2016
Children with developmental dyslexia (DD) may differ from typical readers in aspects other than reading. The notion of a general deficit in the ability to acquire and retain procedural ("how to") knowledge as long-term procedural memory has been proposed. Here, we compared the ability of elementary school children, with and without…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Braille, Elementary School Students
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Carnine, Douglas W. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1981
Following pretraining on three figures, 44 nonhandicapped preschoolers were assigned to experimental groups to investigate methods of integrating a new, similar symbol into a set of familiar symbols to approximate the difficult disciminations encountered by young children in school. (Author)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Discrimination Learning, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Kidd, John W. – J Learning Disabilities, 1970
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Osler, Sonia F. – 1970
The research described in this paper is concerned with conceptual learning in disadvantaged children. The various studies discussed were concerned with the current learning capacity of the subjects. The tasks presented consisted of inductive concept problems. Subjects were provided with various experiences and the effects of these procedures on…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
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Waber, Deborah P.; Weiler, Michael D.; Wolff, Peter H.; Bellinger, David; Marcus, David J.; Ariel, Raya; Forebes, Peter; Wypig, David – Child Development, 2001
Compared the processing of rapid auditory stimuli on two-tone auditory discrimination tasks by 7- to 11-year-olds with learning impairments (LI) and those without learning impairments (non-LI). Found that LI children committed more errors, but the effects of timing were comparable. Obtained same results with a sample of good and poor readers. Task…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis