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Fazio, Barbara B. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1996
Evidence is offered that children with specific language impairment often have serial memory difficulties. Research on the difficulties such children have in rote counting and in learning nursery rhymes is reviewed. Implications of current research for assessment and intervention in mathematics and rhymes are discussed. (DB)
Descriptors: Computation, Evaluation Methods, Language Impairments, Mathematics Skills

Azuma, Tamiko; Bayles, Kathryn A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
The memory deficits associated with the dementia syndromes of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Lewy body disease are outlined and related to the language impairments that have been observed in patients with these disorders. Assessment techniques are described, including commonly used individual tests and test batteries that assess memory and…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Disability Identification, Evaluation Methods, Language Impairments

Torgesen, Joseph K.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
The article examines assessment of phonological coding skills (considered important in in acquiring early word-reading skills) in young children. Although tests of memory span for digits, words, or letters are most commonly used, a combination of tasks including naming-rate and articulation-rate tasks are suggested. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education

Hutchinson, Judith; Marquardt, Thomas P. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Discusses how treatment of memory disorders resulting from traumatic brain injury must extend beyond intervention strategies focusing on deficit reduction to embrace models centering on disability reduction. Disability oriented approaches that emphasize rehearsal and encoding strategies and the use of memory aids are described. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Cues, Encoding (Psychology), Evaluation Methods, Head Injuries
Schulze, Patricia – 2003
This is a prewriting activity for personal memoir or autobiographical writing. Grade 6-8 students brainstorm for important memories, create graphics or symbols for their most important memories, and construct a life map on tag board or construction paper, connecting drawings and captions of high and low points with a highway. During four 50-minute…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Evaluation Methods, Illustrations, Intermediate Grades

Myer, Rick; James, Richard K. – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1991
Presents cost- and time-effective assessment technique for school counselors. The technique described, early recollections, uses children's early memories to help counselors discern a pattern of their behavior. Discusses assumptions upon which technique of early recollections is built and explains how to incorporate early recollections into…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Naremore, Rita C. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Explains how many of the narratives told by children are mapped onto frameworks carried in long-term memory. Assessment methods that speech-language pathologists can use to determine whether a child can use narrative frameworks and how to explain the assessment results are discussed. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Children, Data Interpretation, Disability Identification, Evaluation Methods
Ramanauskas, Sigita – Elementary English, 1974
Teaching activities are suggested for the development of aural language programs. (JH)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
Richard, Gail J. – 2001
This book is intended to help professionals differentiate among processing disorders in children in kindergarten through high school so that intervention efforts can become focused and more effective. It explains how to differentiate among processing disorders, discusses the major processing models, explains assessment procedures, and outlines…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Behavior Problems
Reid, D. Kim; And Others – 1996
This book provides an overview of cognitive approaches to learning disabilities, the theoretical and methodological underpinnings that support them, and the body of knowledge that such work has generated. Part 1 contains the following five papers: "The Educational Perspective" (Wayne P. Hresko and others); "Educational Trends in Learning…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum
Scruggs, Thomas E., Ed.; Mastropieri, Margo A., Ed. – JAI Press, 2004
Secondary education of students with learning and behavioral disabilities is an issue of great importance. Unlike elementary schools, secondary schools require substantially more independent functioning, assume the effective use of student planning and study skills, and often lack the classes in basic skills needed by some learners. Further, new…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders