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An Analysis of Error Patterns of Disabled Readers at the Secondary Level.
Williamson, Ann Pollard – 1976
Forty-eight 15-year-olds diagnosed as learning disabled by school personnel were administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test. Analysis of results indicated that there were significant correlations among subtests of the WISC, among subtests of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test, and between…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Intelligence, Performance Factors, Reading Comprehension
On the Search for a Characteristic Wisc-R Subtest Profile of Reading/Learning Disabled Children.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Moore, David W.; Wilson, Barry J. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Evaluates the utility of the Bannatyne recategorization of WISC-R subtest scores for diagnosing and prescribing instruction for reading/learning disabled children. Concludes that the use of such scores is not warranted. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intelligence Tests, Learning Disabilities, Reading Diagnosis
Reading Retardation and Reversal Tendency: A Factorial Study
Lyle, J. G. – Child Develop, 1969
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cerebral Dominance, Perceptual Handicaps, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Free Recall in Boys of Normal and Poor Reading Levels as a Function of Task Manipulations.
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Dallago, Maria Lucia Lopes; Moely, Barbara E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Results indicated recall and category clustering were highest following a manipulation to produce semantic encoding of items and lowest when children focused on items' physical features. Reading disabled boys failed to organize or study as effectively as normals. The reading disabled had difficulty in spontaneously generating effective study…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis