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Peer reviewedScott, Marcia Strong; Fletcher, Kathryn L.; Deuel, Lois-Lynn Stoyko – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
A study involving 335 normally achieving children and 88 children with learning disabilities or mild mental retardation attending prekindergarten or kindergarten found that three of ten tasks of a cognitive screening test provided the best classification: semantic information/visual, semantic information/verbal, and rhyming tasks (prekindergarten)…
Descriptors: Classification, Disability Identification, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedTorgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
Summarizes recent studies identifying specific linguistic-cognitive markers for reading disabilities and describes efforts to develop measures of these markers in the areas of phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, and verbal short-term memory. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Dyslexia
