Compared were the free recall performances of 30 learning disabled (LD) and 30 normal children (all in elementary grades) when the level of difficulty and/or the material organization were varied. (Author/DB)

Differences in the delayed recall performance of auditory stimuli that were linguistic-meaningful (words), linguistic-nonmeaningful (nonsense syllables), nonlinguistic-meaningful (environmental sounds), and nonlinguistic-nonmeaningful (pure tones) were evaluated with 20 normal and 20 learning disabled children 5 to 9 years of age. (Author/DB)