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Ganor-Stern, Dana – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
The present study is the first to examine the computation estimation skills of dyscalculics versus controls using the estimation comparison task. In this task, participants judged whether an estimated answer to a multidigit multiplication problem was larger or smaller than a given reference number. While dyscalculics were less accurate than…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Computation
Justice, Laura M.; Ahn, Woo-Young; Logan, Jessica A. R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
In this study, we identified child- and family-level characteristics most strongly associated with clinical identification of language disorder for preschool-aged children. We used machine learning to identify variables that best classified children receiving therapy for language disorder among a sample of 483 3- to 5-year-old children (54%…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Disability Identification, Clinical Diagnosis, Preschool Children
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Allen, Melissa M.; Spencer, Trina D. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the classification accuracy of early static prereading measures and early dynamic assessment reading measures administered to 600 kindergarten students. At the beginning of kindergarten, all of the participants were administered two commonly used static prereading measures. The participants were…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Classification, Accuracy, Reading Tests