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Nonverbal Visual Short-Term Memory as a Function of Age and Dimensionality in Learning-disabled Children
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Swanson, H. Lee – Child Development, 1977
A serial recognition task was used to compare performance of two age groups of learning disabled children (mean chronological ages 8.1 and 10.6) with 2- and 3-dimensional representations of nonlabeled 8-point random shapes. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Information Processed from Brief Visual Displays by Learning-Disabled Boys.
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Blackwell, Scott L.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
The apprehension spans of learning-disabled and normal boys were compared by means of a forced-choice letter-recognition task involving tachistoscopic exposures of letter displays. Results of three experiments indicated that the decreased spans of apprehension observed in the first experiment for learning-disabled boys resulted either from greater…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Learning Disabilities, Males
Storage-Retrieval Processes of Normal and Learning-Disabled Children: A Stages-of-Learning Analysis of Picture-Word Effects.
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Howe, Mark L.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
A stages-of-learning model was used to examine effects of picture-word manipulation on storage and retrieval differences between disabled and nondisabled grade 2 and 6 children. Results showed that disabled students are poorer at memory tasks and in developing the ability to reliably retrieve information than nondisabled children. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Learning Disabilities