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Visual Perception of Motor Impaired Children: Implications for Assessment
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Newcomer, Phyllis; Hammill, Donald – Exceptional Children, 1973
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Neurological Impairments, Testing Problems
Does Vision Screening Tell the Whole Story?
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Rabin, Annette T. – Reading Teacher, 1982
Contends that improved visual screening techniques can identify gross visual problems, but reading professionals should be aware of their limitations. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Reading Readiness
Out Damned Chart[ Out, I Say.
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Schubert, Delwyn G. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Discusses the shortcomings of the Snellen eye chart as a vision screeing test and proposes the use of a newer test--the Modified Telebinocular Technique. (MTT)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Student Needs
Technology as an Aid in Assessing Visual Acuity in Severely/Profoundly Retarded Children.
Longo, Julie; And Others – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1982
Technology has been used to measure visual acuity with the severely or profoundly mentally retarded child. The following categories of technology have been used for assessment: the recording of visual fixation within the habituation paradigm; equipment to measure eye movements and pursuits; operant techniques; and electrodiagnostic techniques…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Eye Movements, Measurement Equipment, Operant Conditioning
Functional Vision Screening for Severely Handicapped Children
Langley, Beth; Dubose, Rebecca F. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1976
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Multiple Disabilities, Screening Tests, Severe Disabilities
Using the Acuity Card Procedure to Assess Visual Acuity in Children with Severe and Multiple Impairments.
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Geruschat, D. R. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
This study found that, of 18 children with severe visual and multiple impairments assessed using the Acuity Card Procedure (originally developed for assessing the visual acuity of infants), 42 percent responded. A similar group received a simple instructional intervention prior to testing and that group's response rate was 85 percent. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Children, Interpersonal Communication, Multiple Disabilities
Augmenting Assessment Procedures for Children with Severe Multiple Handicaps and Sensory Impairments.
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Morse, M. T. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
This article describes addition of a "learn a routine" procedure to functional visual assessments of children with severe neurological and physical disabilities. The procedure capitalizes on the child's interest of the moment and provides information on the child's patterns of responses, ability to accommodate to variations of a stimulus, and…
Descriptors: Children, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Disabilities, Neurological Impairments
A Screening Method for Early Identification of Learning Disabilities.
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Coury, Janine P.; Nessa, Donald B. – 1973
This study was conducted in order to develop and evaluate a systematic screening method which could be used by counselors and school psychologists in the identification of first graders showing characteristics generally associated with learning disabilities. The study was conducted within three Title I schools in a large sourthern metropolitan…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Cultural Differences
A Study of Visual Efficiency Necessary for Beginning Reading.
Young, Beverly S.; And Others – 1986
A study was conducted to determine if there were significant differences in vision between beginning readers who learn to read easily and those who learn with difficulty (dyslexics). In addition, the study examined the mean of the high achievers (rather than expert opinion) to discover the degree to which visual efficiency was normally needed for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia, Grade 1, Grade 2