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Peer reviewedJournal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
Position statements of the Council for Learning Disabilities oppose the following: (1) use of discrepancy formulas in the identification of learning disabled individuals; (2) inclusion of nonhandicapped low achievers and underachievers in learning disability programs; and (3) measurement and training of perceptual and perceptual-motor functions.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Handicap Identification, Learning Disabilities
MacIntyre, Robert B.; And Others – 1980
The study examined the process by which diagnostic data on children thought to have learning disabilities (LD) are generated and used. Emphasis was placed on the validity of test instruments in common use in the field. Since part of the practical validity of any instrument used to identify an LD child rests on the validity of the LD construct…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedRatner, Vivienne – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
The Test of Visual Perceptual Abilities and the Test of Spatial Perception in Sign Language were developed and administered to 682 hearing-impaired students, aged 8-18. Results showed that a significant relationship exists between visual perceptual abilities and the ability to comprehend the essential spatial components of sign language.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification
Peer reviewedSautter, Scott W.; Barth, Jeffrey T. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1991
Several assessment procedures were analyzed to determine their ability to discriminate below-average from above-average readers among 50 first graders. Results indicated that language tests were more successful in classifying reading skills than were sensory-motor and perceptual procedures. Clear cut asymmetrical hemispheric specializations,…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Handicap Identification
International Labour Office, Islamabad (Pakistan). Asian and Pacific Skill Development Programme. – 1976
This screening and diagnostic procedure is intended to identify Level 1 adults with specific learning problems. The adults not meeting criteria on the assessments for visual and auditory functions should be referred to proper medical services for full evaluations. A prescriptive teaching program should be specifically designed to meet needs of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests
Knuckle, Essie P. – 1984
Normal black adolescents were given neuropsychological tests of brain damage, and the interpretation of these tests was reviewed with respect to culturally relevant data. Subjects were 50 male and 50 female black students, aged 12-13, with no history of central nervous system trauma, and average scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Black Attitudes, Black Culture
