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Download full textGlaser, Mark L. – 1978
The study compared 46 normal and learning disabled eighth graders as to their retention of nonsense syllables once mastery learning occurred. Groups were equated by intelligence, age, and sex and were presented ten nonsense syllables to be remembered. Each group studied the material until a predetermined percentage of the words could be recalled.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Zeitlin, Shirley – 1976
Discussed is early identification of children having special educational or developmental needs, with emphasis on the use of screening to identify the potential high risk learner. Terms are defined and criteria to help select a screening instrument are given. The Zeitlin Early Identification Screening (ZEIS) is described as an example of a…
Descriptors: Definitions, Early Childhood Education, Handicapped Children, Identification
Bauer, Hanna – Academic Therapy, 1975
The resource teacher's role as a consultant for learning disabled children in the regular classroom requires the skill of consultation which includes establishment of a contract, a working alliance, and a communications system between the resource teacher and the regular teacher as well as criteria for evaluation and termination. (DB)
Descriptors: Consultants, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
Vezie, Mary B. – Academic Therapy, 1975
Discussed are the role of the sensory integration specialist in diagnosing and treating various disorders of sensory integration. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Neurology, Perceptual Handicaps
Peer reviewedPediatrics, 1975
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Exceptional Child Services, Hyperactivity, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedAllington, Richard – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1975
Descriptors: Attention Span, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulty
PDF pending restorationFleischner, Jeannette E.; And Others – 1980
The study involving 183 learning disabled and 852 nondisabled children (grades 3 through 6), investigated students' performance on arithmetic basic fact problems in addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Three separate group administered tests were devised, covering 98 basic addition, 98 subtraction, and 98 multiplication facts. Children were…
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education
Loranger, Michel; Picard, Liette – 1981
The relationship between classroom behavior and academic success was investigated in 29 seventh grade boys with learning difficulties. Observations were made of 19 categories of behavior, including approval in group, appropriate visual orientation in class, class interaction, group work, inappropriate peer interaction, and teacher contact. Results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Mirkes, Donna Z., Ed. – 1981
The document describes model demonstration projects, products, and Learning Disabilities Research Institutes funded by the Program for Severely/Profoundly Handicapped Children and Youth and by the Handicapped Children Model Program (HCMP). An overview section contains an analysis of data regarding the characteristics of children/youth served,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
Copeland, Anne P.; And Others – 1981
The study examined the relationship between cognitive performance and the use of private speech in 20 learning disabled children, aged 81 to 108 months. Half of the children were hyperactive. Each child was given a series of cognitive tasks and played alone in a room for 7 minutes. Videotapes of the free play were later transcribed and coded…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Hyperactivity, Interaction
Gerber, Michael M.; Hall, Robert J. – 1981
In a replication of an earlier study, the spellings produced by 47 learning disabled (LD) students (ages 7 to 11 years) were classified in terms of a hierarchy of spelling strategies presumed to result in conventional spelling. The developmental trends for the spelling strategies used by the LD Ss were compared to the trends previously observed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Error Patterns
Justice, Elaine M.; Beard, Rebecca L. – 1982
The study examined the development of perspective taking skills in 44 learning disabled (LD) and 44 nonLD children (9 to 12 years old). Each child was administered three tasks designed to assess the ability to judge the affective, perceptual, and cognitive perspective of others. Results indicated that LD children scored significantly lower than…
Descriptors: Cues, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities
Hall, Lynda K.; Day, Jeanne D. – 1982
Sixty-five learning disabled (LD), educable mentally retarded (EMR), and normal second graders were compared on their ability to profit from instruction on a balance scale task and on their ability to transfer their learning to two new tasks. During individual training, the retarded group required an average of 9.8 hints, the LD group an average…
Descriptors: Learning, Learning Disabilities, Mild Mental Retardation, Primary Education
Skrtic, Thomas M. – 1980
The study examined the level of formal reasoning in mathematics of 70 learning disabled (LD) and 30 nonLD students from seventh and eighth grades. A review of previous research led to the hypothesis that mathematics interventions for LD students should involve concrete or pictorial, in addition to symbolic, representations of mathematical…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Junior High Schools
Mellard, Daryl F.; Alley, Gordon R. – 1981
The study involving 85 sixth through ninth graders tested J. Torgesen's hypothesis that learning disabled (LD) children's performance deficits occur as a result of a "passive" approach to tasks rather than a cognitive processing deficit as assumed by other existing definitions. LD students were matched with nonhandicapped peers and administered…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Junior High Schools
