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Psychological Resources of Adults with Developmental Dyslexia
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Lockiewicz, Marta; Bogdanowicz, Katarzyna M.; Bogdanowicz, Marta – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
The aim of our study was to describe specific psychological resources of adults with developmental dyslexia and compare them with psychological resources of adults without developmental dyslexia. Potential differences were analyzed in visual-spatial, creative, and motivational abilities. No evidence was found for either creative, or visuospatial…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Dyslexia, Adults, Visual Perception
Determinants of Performance of the Bender Gestalt Test and Raven's Progressive Matrices (1947) Test
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Kerr, Andrew S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1972
The effects of grade level, achievement level, and sex were studied in the examination of determinants of visual-motor coordination and visual-perceptual reasoning in elementary school children. (KW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Specific Visual Perceptual Skills as Long-Term Predictors of Academic Success
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Colarusso, Ronald P.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1975
Examined was the relationship between the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception and academic achievement as measured by the scholastic Research Association Achievement Test Battery with 125 primary grade children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Achievement Test Performance of High and Low Perceiving Learning Disabled Children
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Black, F. William – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1974
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Children, Exceptional Child Research
The School Adjustment of Post-Meningitic Children
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Pate, John E.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1974
To explore relationships between success in school and infectious childhood disease, 25 children in regular primary grades who had survived laboratory confirmed acute bacterial meningitis prior to 4 years of age without observable sequelae were matched with 25 non-meningitic controls and subjected to intensive multidisciplinary examinations.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Diseases, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
Neurological Dysfunction and Reading Disorders
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Black, F. William – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1973
Intellectual functioning, visual perception, and academic achievement were investigated in two samples (25 in each) of children (mean IQ 94.20 and 95.32, and mean age 8.24 years and 8.13 years, respectively) with significant reading disorders. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research
Sensory, Cognitive, and Linguistic Factors in the Early Academic Performance of Elementary School Children: The Benton-IU Project.
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Watson, Charles S.; Kidd, Gary R.; Horner, Douglas G.; Connell, Phil J.; Lowther, Andrya; Eddins, David A.; Krueger, Glenn; Goss, David A.; Rainey, Bill B.; Gospel, Mary D.; Watson, Betty U. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
Standardized sensory, perceptual, linguistic, intellectual, and cognitive tests were administered to 470 entering first graders. Factor analysis found four factors, which were reading related skills, visual cognition, verbal cognition, and speech processing. Cluster analysis identified nine profiles. The strongest predictors of later reading and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Processes