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Harrison, Allyson G.; Holmes, Alana; Pollock, Bethany – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2021
Memory aids are now frequently provided to elementary and secondary school students to increase their success in achieving provincial curriculum standards. While such an accommodation may meet the immediate goal of improved academic performance it may not be warranted based on an actual long-term memory retrieval impairment and may therefore be…
Descriptors: Memory, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Postsecondary Education, Special Education
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Phelan, Heather L.; Filliter, Jillian H.; Johnson, Shannon A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
According to the Task Support Hypothesis (TSH; Bowler et al. in Neuropsychologia 35:65-70, 1997) individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) perform more similarly to their typically developing peers on learning and memory tasks when provided with external support at retrieval. We administered the California Verbal Learning Test-Children's…
Descriptors: Autism, Verbal Learning, Memory, Memorization
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Cutting, Laurie E.; Koth, Christine W.; Mahone, E. Mark; Denckla, Martha B. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
Eighteen children (ages 6-16) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were compared to 20 controls on both process and product scores from the California Verbal Learning Test for Children. Children with ADHD initially learned the same number of words as controls but showed weaknesses recalling the words after delays. (Contains…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Auditory Perception, Elementary Secondary Education, Hyperactivity