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Peer reviewedJohnston, Judith R.; Weismer, Susan Ellis – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1983
Normal and language-disordered first and third graders (matched for sex and cognitive level) were asked to decide whether two geometric arrays were similarly ordered. Language-disordered children did not differ from normal children in accuracy of judgment or require more training trials, but they did respond more slowly. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Language Handicaps, Nonverbal Learning, Perceptual Development, Primary Education
Peer reviewedRabinowitz, F. Michael; Howe, Mark L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Children's use of the middle concept was assessed in two developmental studies. Experiment 1, with kindergarten through fifth-grade students, showed marked improvement in the mastery of the middle concept across elementary grades. In Experiment 2, discrimination pretraining with two nonoverlapping stimulus sets transferred to the novel test…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education
Riege, Walter H.; Williams, M. Virtrue – 1980
The impact of age effects on nonverbal memory for auditory or tactual patterns has been largely neglected in research studies. The effects of age on nonverbal memory were investigated by comparing subjects (N=120), divided by age decades into six groups (N=20), through tests using visual, auditory, and tactual items which were resistant to verbal…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Learning Modalities
Fraser, G. M.; Blockley, J. – 1973
Presented are three papers, written over a period of 2 and a half years (1971-72) which describe the evolution of a treatment for language disordered children based on work at the Braidwood Audiology Unit (London). In the first paper results of diagnostic psychological tests administered to approximately 500 language disordered and hearing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Philosophy, Exceptional Child Education, Exceptional Child Research
Download full textMaxwell, David L.; And Others – 1992
This study investigated the premise that disordered temporal order perception in retarded readers can be seen in the serial processing of both nonverbal auditory and visual information, and examined whether such information processing deficits relate to level of reading ability. The adult subjects included 20 in the dyslexic group, 12 in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes
Grace, Janet; Suci, George J. – 1981
A study is undertaken to determine whether the nonlinguistic priority of the agent of an action facilitates the comprehension of word reference. The subjects were twelve male and twelve female infants at the one word stage of language production. The children were presented with three nonsense names (presented as part of a narration of a filmed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Case (Grammar), Child Language, Concept Formation
