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Nabuzoka, Dabie; Smith, Peter K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
Comparison of the ability of 74 children with and 19 children without learning disabilities (LD) at three age levels to identify expressions of emotions through facial, posture, and gesture cues found that LD children identified fewer emotions but did show some age progression. Some emotions were more readily identified than others. Most gender…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Body Language, Children, Communication Skills
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Fisher, Barbara L.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
Comparison of the effects of pretest anxiety on the social and nonsocial problem solving of 45 boys (ages 9 to 11) with learning disabilities (LD) and 45 nondisabled boys found the LD group reported significantly higher pretest anxiety which escalated over the course of the problem-solving session. However, boys with or without LD were equally…
Descriptors: Achievement, Affective Behavior, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
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Yasutake, David; Bryan, Tanis – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
Twenty-eight students (grades six through eight) with severe learning disabilities (LD) received group or individual intervention with either induced positive or neutral moods. The positive affect condition in the individual setting increased coding task performance the most for students with LD. Subjects receiving the neutral affect induction,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Lehrer, Richard; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1986
This study examined the instructional effectiveness of three software learning environments--LOGO, drill and practice, and teacher-directed activities--for preschool special needs children. Cognitive distancing was applied to classify children and child-software interactions; dependent measures included indicators of problem solving, skill…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Cotton, Kathleen; Savard, William G. – 1982
This report is one of a series of literature reviews conducted in response to the primary concerns of educators nationally. After noting the scarcity of research on parent involvement in the instruction of their children in kindergarten through high school, the authors summarize 18 documents found to be relevant and valid to the topic of parent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Annotated Bibliographies, Educationally Disadvantaged
Goldstein, David; Dundon, William D. – 1986
This paper addresses the problem of heterogeneity of samples of learning disabled (LD) children by comparing five different systems for identifying homogeneous subgroups in terms of their ability to predict longitudinal reading and mathematics scores. One hundred and sixty LD children served as subjects. Three of the five subgrouping systems were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Blacks