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Measuring Perceptual Skills That Are Related to the Learning Task.
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Taylor, Nancy E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
Focusing primarily on learning disabled children, the article briefly reviews the literature related to perceptual skills required in reading acquisition and the validity of current perceptual measures to tap these task-related perceptual abilities, and proposes an informal task-related measure to overcome the drawbacks of more formal measures of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Literature Reviews, Perception, Perception Tests
A Review of the Non-Motoric Visual Gestalt Test and a Comparison with the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test.
Elovitz, Gerald P. – Diagnostique, 1979
Measures of visual perception, such as the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test (BVMGT) usually require motoric responding, i.e., drawing of figures. An alternative test, the Non-Motoric Visual Gestalt Test (NVGT), is compared with the BVMGT and shown to be superior in measuring visual-perceptual abilities that can discriminate poor and average…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Psychomotor Skills, Reading Achievement
An Examination of Methods Used to Test the Visual Perceptual Deficit Hypothesis of Dyslexia.
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Gross, Karen; Rothenberg, Stephen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
Two methodological problems often arising in dyslexia research are considered. The first problem concerns the validity of experimental measures and the related problem of interpreting null results. The second problem involves the effects of sampling from a disabled population if the disorder under investigation has multiple unknown origins.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Hypothesis Testing, Learning Disabilities