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Identifying Specific Reading Disability Subtypes for Effective Educational Remediation
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Feifer, Steven G.; Nader, Rebecca Gerhardstein; Flanagan, Dawn P.; Fitzer, Kim R.; Hicks, Kelly – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the various neurocognitive processes concomitant to reading by attempting to identify various subtypes of reading disorders in a referred sample. Participants were 216 elementary school students in grades two through five who were given select subtests of the Woodcock Johnson-III Tests of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Neurology, Cognitive Processes, Reading Processes
Attentional Deficits and Word Attributes Preferred by Learning Disabled Children in Grades 2, 4, and 6.
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Hynd, George W.; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
The study investigated the effects of attentional deficits on the relative preferences for associative, acoustic, and orthographic attributes in word recognition by 45 learning disabled children in grades 2, 4, and 6. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age Differences, Associative Learning, Attention
Pseudoword Repetition Ability in Learning-Disabled Children.
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Taylor, H. Gerry; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Investigation of associations between learning-disabled children's ability to repeat pseudowords and their performances on other measures of phonological processing and academic achievement found that repetition ability was more closely related to reading and spelling skills than to mathematics achievement, while measures of phonological skills…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Associative Learning, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis