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Karla K. McGregor; Ron Pomper; Nichole Eden; Margo Appenzeller; Timothy Arbisi-Kelm; Elaina Polese; Deborah K. Reed – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the ability of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) to infer word class and meaning from text and to document variations by word class (noun, verb, adjective) and modality (listening, reading). We also asked whether the children could integrate global cues across the entire passage as…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Students with Disabilities, Language Impairments, Form Classes (Languages)
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Mielicki, Marta K.; Koppel, Rebecca H.; Valencia, Gabriela; Wiley, Jennifer – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
Working memory capacity plays a major role in many applied contexts, and it is important to be able to accurately measure this construct. The current studies tested whether the modality of administration of the letter-number sequencing task affects performance on the task. The letter-number sequencing task is a working memory capacity measure…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Adults, Intelligence Tests, Task Analysis
Mascia, Maria Lidia; Fastame, Maria Chiara; Agus, Mirian; Lucangeli, Daniela; Penna, Maria Pietronilla – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
The current study aimed at exploring the impact of the modality in which numerical trainings proposed in kindergarten school. Participants were recruited from some Sardinian kindergarten schools and were then divided into three groups: a control group, which had to carry out the activities planned by the educational curriculum, and two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Numbers, Young Children