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Re, Anna Maria; De Vita, Francesca; Cornoldi, Cesare; Schmidt, Susanna – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Copying a text quickly and accurately is important both in school and in daily life. However, this skill has never been systematically studied, either in children with typical development (TD) or in children with specific learning disabilities (SLD). The aim of this research was to study the features of a copy task and its relationship with other…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Grade 6
Hendricks, Emma L.; Fuchs, Douglas – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Response to intervention (RTI) has been promoted for nearly 20 years as a valid supplement to or alternative method of learning disability (LD) identification. Nevertheless, important unresolved questions remain about its role in disability identification. We had two purposes when conducting this study of 229 economically and racially diverse poor…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Response to Intervention, Disability Identification, Students with Disabilities
O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Sanchez, Victoria M.; Jones, Brian T.; Suchlit, Luisana; Youkhanna, Valencia; Beach, Kristen D.; Widaman, Keith – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2021
In this multi-year study, we taught English/Language Arts teachers of students with learning disabilities in middle school to incorporate 15 min of daily vocabulary activities with students in their intact special education English/Language Arts classes. During Year 1, teachers taught 48 words to their sixth grade students, who learned and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Middle School Students, English, Language Arts
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Haynes, William O.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Comparison of alpha amplitudes of 12 children with learning disabilities and 12 normally achieving controls in three task situations found no significant differences between groups in alpha amplitude but a significant task effect with the vigilance, story comprehension, and rehearsal conditions showing decreasing alpha amplitudes in both groups of…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Expressive Language
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Gregg, Noel; Hoy, Cheri – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The study found that college student writers with learning disabilities (N=35) produced better coherent written text than did underprepared non-disabled students. LD writers appeared to understand text structure like normally achieving writers but, like the underprepared writers, they experienced difficulty in the production process. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Expressive Language, Higher Education
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Wiig, Elisabeth H.; Semel, Eleanor M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Expressive Language, Language Ability
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Ripich, Danielle N.; Griffith, Penny L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Narrative abilities of 24 learning disabled (LD) and 27 nondisabled children (ages 7-12.5 years) were compared. Although LD students were able to reconstruct stories as well as were nondisabled students, narrative analysis of both original and retold stories can provide useful information on language skills beyond the sentence level. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Language Proficiency
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Simmons, Deborah C.; Kameenui, Edward J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
The study found that, compared to normally achieving students, 24 students (age 10 and 12) with learning disabilities were less able in vocabulary production tasks and comparable in ability to use pictorial responses to demonstrate vocabulary knowledge. When equated in reading achievement, learning-disabled 10 year olds were poorer in composite…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Intermediate Grades, Knowledge Level, Learning Disabilities
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van der Wissel, A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The study demonstrated that 36 male children (ages 7-10) with learning problems were characterized not by a restricted vocabulary as such (i.e., the variance common to both receptive and productive vocabulary measures) but by a hampered production of words (i.e., the variance common to both speed-of-naming and productive vocabulary measures.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps, Learning Disabilities
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Howe, Bill – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1982
A program was developed to increase the receptive and expressive language skills of 24 secondary learning-disabled students. Program units covered word sorting, sight-word vocabulary, key-word reading, reading rate, reading comprehension, listening, and writing. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities
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Semel, Eleanor M.; Wiig, Elisabeth H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1975
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Expressive Language, Identification, Language Handicaps
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Algozzine, Bob; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The study analyzed communication performance of tenth grade learning disabled (LD) students (N=1,098) on the Florida State Student Assessment Test-II (a minimum competency test). LD students demonstrated better literal communication skills and poorer interpretive and written communication skills. Employers (N=240) also supported the importance of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Employer Attitudes, Expressive Language, Grade 10
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McCord, Jill S.; Haynes, William O. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Twelve learning-disabled children, aged 8-11, were compared with normal peers on various discourse errors. No significant quantitative differences were found in the total number of discourse errors between the disabled and normal groups, but the errors were qualitatively different. Male subjects made significantly more errors than female subjects.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education