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Peer reviewedVan der Lely, Heather K. J.; Howard, David – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Verbal-repetition and picture-pointing tasks were used in this study of semantic, lexical, and phonological factors of short-term memory in 6 children (ages 6-9) with specific language impairment (SLI) and 17 language-matched control subjects. Both group and individual analyses found no significant differences between the performance of the SLI…
Descriptors: Children, Linguistics, Performance Factors, Phonology
Memory of Specific Learning Disabled Readers Using the California Verbal Learning Test for Children.
Download full textKnee, Kathleen; And Others – 1991
A group of 73 normal children (ages 8 to 10) was compared to 49 age-matched developmentally dyslexic children of average intelligence on the California Verbal Learning Test for Children (CVLT-C), to determine if reading disability was associated with impaired verbal memory. Dyslexics differed significantly from controls on 9 of the 12 CVLT-C…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Hedl, John J., Jr. – 1986
Level of state test anxiety and depression were related to encoding strategy (imagery versus sematic instructions) in a study of sentence memory. Subjects were 80 female undergraduate students. Negative effects for test anxiety were found in both strategy conditions. Negative effects were found for depression when the semantic encoding strategy…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cues, Depression (Psychology), Encoding (Psychology)
