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Trites, R. L.; Price, M. A. – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1978
A two-year study of learning disabilities found in association with French immersion programs indicates that children encountering difficulty in primary French immersion programs have a specific learning disability characterized by a pattern suggesting a maturational lag in the temporal lobe regions of the brain. (JMF)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, French, Immersion Programs
Bruck, Margaret – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1978
Three case studies of children with specific learning disabilities who were switched out of French immersion programs are presented to provide background for the development of hypotheses for future study regarding the advisability of switching. (JMF)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Elementary Education, French
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Wiss, Corrinne A. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Issues relating to the psychoeducational evaluation of bilingual children from French immersion programs are presented using data from an in-depth study of a young learning disabled girl, discussed in reference to Cummins' theory of cross-linguistic transfer. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wiss, Corrinne A. – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1993
This paper describes the methodology of a study seeking to determine whether there is evidence that French immersion children with specific reading disability in one language also have the disability in the other language, and learning-disabled readers belong to the same subtype in both languages. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classification, Disability Identification, Elementary Education
Colorado Council for Learning Disabilities. – 1995
This publication contains reports on eight research studies proposed, developed, and conducted by special education teachers in their own classrooms. The projects are: "Chapter 1 and Special Education Working Together To Activate Students' Participation in Applying Math through the Use of Technology" (Megan Haynes Blancett and Carol…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Communication Skills, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Trites, R. L.; Price, M. A. – 1976
Thirty-two children who experienced difficulty in primary French immersion were compared to seven other groups of children matched for age and sex on a wide variety of language, perceptual, academic achievement, memory, motor, sensory and other tests to determine if there was anything unique in the profile of this group. The comparison groups…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
Bruck, Maggie; And Others – 1975
This preliminary report describes an ongoing investigation begun in September 1970 of how Anglophone children with language-learning disabilities fare in French immersion programs. Their progress has been followed from Kindergarten to Grade 3, with positive preliminary results. The children have learned to read in both English and French; their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language
Trites, R. L.; Price, M. A. – 1976
In the first study of this series, it was found that children who have difficulty in primary French immersion are distinct from children having a primary reading disability, minimal brain dysfunction, hyperactivity or primary emotional disturbance. The present study was undertaken in order to cross-validate the findings of the first study, to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, French