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Understanding Students with Learning Difficulties: How Do They Learn?
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Hong, Barbara S. S.; Chick, Kay A. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2013
This article examines: (1) why learning comes so naturally for some students and yet is so onerous for others; (2) why some students need constant reminders while others get on task right away; and (3) why some students "just don't get it" even after countless repetitions and multitudes of practices. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation
A Rapid Screening Measure for the Identification of Visuospatial Learning Disability in Schools.
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Cornoldi, Cesare; Venneri, Annalena; Marconato, Fabio; Molin, Adriana; Montinari, Cinzia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
An 18-item "Shortened Visuospatial Questionnaire" (SVS) was validated twice, first by verifying that children (ages 8-13) identified with the SVS questionnaire as having visuospatial learning disability (VSLD) (n=54) actually showed visuospatial deficits on psychometric evaluation, and second, by rating with the SVS a clinically identified…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Questionnaires