In an effort to make freehand drawing instruction more easily transferred to architectural design, a series of exercises was developed based on touch, movement, and vision. The intent is for students to mimic and develop empathy with the items they are drawing. Examples and illustrations are provided. (MSE)

A total of 169 third-grade pupils were used as the final sample in an examination of information matching ability involving haptic, auditory, and visual modalities in relation to mathematics achievement. Significant correlations were found between matching abilities involving the haptic modality and mathematics achievement, higher than found with…

The techniques of meta-analysis were used to integrate statistically the findings from 31 studies on the relationship of auditory-visual integration and reading achievement. A total of 146 correlations were collected and aggregated across assessment procedures, reading skills, grade levels, and subject characteristics. (Author/SJL)

Abused and nonabused boys were interviewed to determine their perceptions of parental characteristics, discipline techniques, and emotional acceptance/rejection as well as attributions for parental treatment. Wide variations between abused and nonabused children's perceptions were found. (Author)

Presents some of the more recent perceptual discoveries of Marshall McLuhan as they relate to new media technologies. (FL)

Results of discriminating and monitoring tasks indicate that performance deteriorates over time when a specific object must be distinguished from previously presented nonspecific objects in a display which changes quickly. The results offer a basis for distinguishing between perceptual and response processes underlying the vigilance decrement.…

Article suggests certain tasks must be performed before a pupil can learn to read. What these tasks are depends upon whether teaching method is analytic--introducing words as whole units to be broken down--or synthetic--introducing individual written signs as sounds, to be built up into meaningful units. (RW)

Seventy-three children (ages 4-18) with hearing impairments were administered the Auditory Perception of Alphabet Letters test. Results indicated excellent reliability, and high intercorrelations with both open-set and closed-set auditory tests. The study concludes that spoken names of alphabet letters can be employed as an effective auditory…

The study with 989 learning-disabled students supported the cognitive-based arithmetic problem-solving model of Dinnel et al. under continuous visual stimulus conditions but suggested a more complex neuropsychological underpinning to arithmetic performance in both visual and aural stimulus conditions. (Author/DB)

Adolescents with and without learning disabilities (14, 16, and 18 years old) were tested to determine whether they differed in auditory, visual, and/or multisensory social perception abilities. The adolescents with learning disabilities at all age levels were not as adept at understanding nonverbal social information regardless of whether it was…

The study investigated two neurophysiologic components of event-related brain potential during auditory and visual target detection tasks with 11 non-retarded autistic children, 9 retarded autistic children, and 16 normal subjects, aged 15-19. Results were consistent with the hypothesis that non-retarded autism involves abnormal attentional and…

This holistic approach to speechreading instruction proposes: enhancement of the child's self-motivation, strategy-based instruction, an interactive processing approach that focuses on meaning and psycholinguistic guessing, bisensory instruction, and a hierarchical continuum beginning with easy, successful activities that gradually increase in…

Four- and seven-year olds were asked to make and explain predictions about their abilities to solve perceptual problems, perform the tasks, and explain their success or failure. Results indicated that young children have some clear-cut knowledge, and misconceptions, about their senses. Between four and seven years, children become increasingly…

Three experiments examined infants' perceptions of their own leg movements as presented to them via online video that varied the spatial orientation and directionality of movement. The infants looked significantly longer and generated significantly more leg activity while looking at the view displaying a left-right inversion than while looking at…