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Marini, Anthony E. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1990
The verbal encoding ability of 24 students (ages 14-20) with learning disabilities (LD) was compared to that of 24 non-learning-disabled subjects. LD subjects did not show a release from proactive interference, suggesting that such students are less likely to encode the phonetic features of words or use a phonetic code in short-term memory.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Learning Disabilities, Phonetics, Recall (Psychology)
Hayes, David A.; Henk, William – 1984
This study investigated the use readers make of visual and verbal illustration to understand and remember what they have read. Specific focus was placed on readers' use of pictures and analogies to understand and remember written directions for a spatial manipulation task. The independent variables measured were type of text, mode of illustration,…
Descriptors: Analogy, Comparative Analysis, High Schools, Illustrations
Peer reviewedSnowling, Maggie; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes three experiments that examined the processing of speech by dyslexic readers. Compares their performance with that of age-matched and reading-ability-matched controls. Shows that dyslexics have difficulty with the nonlexical procedures involved in verbal repetition. (HOD)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Children, Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia
