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Bakker, Nelleke – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
This article focuses on the role the Dutch school for children with "learning and behavioural problems" (LOM) has played in knowledge production about learning disabilities and in the development of academic study of special education between 1949 and 1985. LOM-schooling grew rapidly during these years and attracted relatively many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Testing, Observation
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Pritchard, Alison Esposito; Koriakin, Taylor; Carey, Lisa; Bellows, Alison; Jacobson, Lisa; Mahone, E. Mark – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2016
This study investigated the effectiveness of five commonly administered academic testing accommodations on reading and math performance in children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A total of 96 parents of 3rd-8th grade students with ADHD participated. More than half of the sample also had parent-reported learning difficulties…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Testing Accommodations, Learning Disabilities, Elementary School Students
SCHULMAN, JEROME L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THIS MONOGRAPH RELATES RESULTS OF A STUDY WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN TO ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS--TO WHAT EXTENT DO EIGHT TECHNIQUES COMMONLY USED TO DIAGNOSE BRAIN DAMAGE CO-VARY, TO WHAT EXTENT DO THE VARIOUS BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS THAT OCCUR WITH BRAIN DAMAGE CO-VARY, AND TO WHAT EXTENT DO THE DIAGNOSTIC MEASURES, SINGLY OR IN GROUPS, PREDICT…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Clinical Diagnosis
Robbins, Pearl; Graf, Mercedes – 1973
Tested with the Stanford-Binet Scale of Intelligence were 70 children, aged 3- to 5-years with IQ's from 75 to 145, to determine whether the test could serve as a diagnostic tool for identifying learning disabilities (LD) in preschool children. It was hypothesized that LD children would have a basal age no more than two levels below chronological…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Learning Disabilities, Prediction
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Phelps, LeAdelle; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Compared Stanford-Binet (Fourth Edition) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised as instruments for assessing the intellectual strengths and weaknesses of students (N=35) classified as learning disabled in elementary and secondary grades. Results suggest the tests will yield similar intelligence quotients for the learning disabled…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Quotient
Smith, Douglas K.; And Others – 1987
This study investigates the validity of the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (S-B:4) for use with students with learning disabilities. It compares the performance of 18 elementary-age students on the S-B:4 and the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC). The subjects were identified by their school as having learning…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing
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Greene, Anthony C.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1990
Compared Standard Age Scores on Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SBIV) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised intelligence quotient scores of 51 urban Black males receiving special education services. Data suggest that SBIV possesses utility for assessing intelligence of Black students classified as behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Black Students, Comparative Testing, Educational Diagnosis