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Nonverbal Learning Disability, School Behavior, and Dyslexia.
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Badian, Nathlie A. – Annals of Dyslexia, 1992
This study of elementary-level students compared behavioral patterns of 27 children showing a low nonverbal/high verbal (LNV) intelligence test profile and 38 children with a low verbal/high nonverbal (LV) profile. Results confirmed earlier findings that LNV children are perceived by teachers as significantly poorer than LV children in many…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia
Attentional Aspects of Classroom Behavior and Discrimination Learning.
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Strand, Steve C. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
This study found that teachers' ratings of their 8 severely mentally handicapped pupils' (ages 9-18) classroom behavior were correlated with children's performance on a discrimination learning task. The factors of attention/distractibility and responsivity to consequences correlated significantly with number of errors and number of trials to…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Tempo
Generalization and Setting Specificity of Behavioral Deficits among Learning Disabled Students.
Bender, William N. – Learning Disabilities Research, 1989
Resource teachers' and regular teachers' ratings for 32 elementary-level learning-disabled (LD) students were compared to identify teachability characteristics and behaviors. Though the two groups of teachers did not note differences in problem behaviors of the same LD child in different settings, differences in cognitive/motivational and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes