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Mental Regress Learning Deficiency
Carlson, Luis A. – Academic Therapy, 1976
Differentiated are children with mental regress learning deficiency characterized by poor capacity to mentally reorder events and children with poor memory. (DB)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Learning, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Expanding Learning through Mazes and Visual Imagery.
Currant, Nanda – Academic Therapy, 1982
The author speculates on the mythic symbolism of the maze and describes her work with learning disabled students who responded favorably to mazes, especially to visualization tasks involving mazes. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Pictorial Stimuli, Visual Learning
The Video-Game Syndrome.
Evans, William H.; Stritch, Thomas M. – Academic Therapy, 1983
Computers should not supplant other forms of basic instruction for learning disabled students. Overreliance on computers could lead to difficulties for students with poor visual skills and to inadequate practice for students with motor problems. (CL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Wasting Teacher Time.
Richards, Regina G. – Academic Therapy, 1985
Significant visual and visual-perceptual problems must be identified in the early school years to save unnecessary stress, frustration, and anxiety. Classroom diagnosis using formal and informal measures can lead to referral to developmental or functional optometrists. (CL)
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Increasing Visual Attention: Using Resistive Activities.
Jani, Subhash N. – Academic Therapy, 1983
Resistance applied to activities of rocking, creeping, and walking as a means to increase visual attention of students who are easily distracted is described. The resistance activities are said to result in improvement of gross motor coordination, oculomotor control, memory processes, and untimately, greater efficiency in academic learning. (CL)
Descriptors: Attention, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Learning, Physical Activities
The Validity of the ITPA Visual Closure Subtest
Harth, Robert; Justen, Joseph E., III – Academic Therapy, 1977
In an examination of the validity of the Visual Closure subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, 94 learning disabled students (mean age 9 years) were administered three visual measures. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Test Validity
A Visual Spelling Approach: It Works!
Glazzard, Peggy – Academic Therapy, 1982
The author describes a technique, a visual spelling approach, which has been used successfully with learning disabled students who demonstrate poor auditory discrimination but who have good visual skills. (SW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Handicaps, Spelling Instruction
Sentence Development: A Nonverbal Approach.
Sinatra, Richard – Academic Therapy, 1983
A visual/spatial nonverbal approach to sentence development for the reading and learning disabled uses pictures, model sentence configurations, and function words. Students are encouraged to contribute their own written language that conforms to the model. Visual and sentence clues provide input to the right brain, encouraging language learning.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
Modality Preference and Teaching Method: A Review of the Research.
Kampwirth, Thomas J.; Bates, Marion – Academic Therapy, 1980
The article reviews 22 studies concerned with learning disabled children under 10 years old in which there was a clear attempt to compare auditory and visual modality preferenes to visual and/or auditory methods of teaching words or other written verbal symbols. (PHR)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities