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Walker, Stephen C.; Poteet, James A. – Learning Disabilities Research, 1989
Thirty learning-disabled and 30 nonhandicapped intermediate grade children were assessed on memory performance for stimulus words, which were presented with congruent and noncongruent rhyming words and semantically congruent and noncongruent sentence frames. Both groups performed significantly better on words encoded using deep level congruent…
Descriptors: Cues, Incidental Learning, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
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Copeland, Anne P.; Wisniewski, Nadine M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Performance on tasks of memory and of attention was consistently interrelated for nonlearning disabled children and less consistently so for learning disabled subjects. Hyperactivity was also related to poorer performance on the cognitive measures. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Span, Children, Elementary Education
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Copeland, Anne P.; Moll, Nadine W. – 1979
The differences in performance on a variety of cognitive measures were studied in 67 learning disabled (LD) and normal elementary school children. Younger and older Ss were administered tests of conceptual sorting, central and incidental learning, and selective attention. Teacher ratings of classroom hyperactive behavior were also examined. LD Ss…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Behavior, Classification