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The Role of Working Memory and Dynamic Assessment in the Classification of Children with Learning Disabilities.

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Swanson, H. Lee – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994

The performance of reading-disabled, math-disabled, slow-learning, under-achieving, and normal-achieving children (total n=143) was compared on verbal and visual-spatial working memory measures under initial, gain, and maintenance testing conditions. Ability group classifications changed under dynamic testing conditions. The study demonstrated the…

Descriptors: Classification, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods

Alternative Diagnostic Approaches for Specific Developmental Reading Disabilities.

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Torgesen, 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