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Peer reviewedMorgan, Anna W.; Sullivan, Susan A.; Darden, Cindy; Gregg, Noel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
This study involving 30 college students with learning disabilities and 30 students without learning disabilities (ages 18-30) compared results obtained on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised and the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test. Results found no significant differences between the two groups or between tests.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, College Students, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedMorgan, Allison E.; Singer-Harris, Naomi; Bernstein, Jane H.; Waber, Deborah P. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2000
Forty children (ages 7-11) referred for evaluation of learning problems, who had normal scores on measures of academic achievement, were compared to 81 similarly referred children who had scored low. Children with normal achievement scores had higher IQs and better decoding skills, however, the two groups showed similar neuropsychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSparks, Richard L.; Philips, Lois; Ganschow, Leonore; Javorsky, James – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
A comparison of 46 college students with learning disabilities (LD) who received permission to waive a foreign language (FL) requirement with 21 students with LD who fulfilled the requirement found that more students who had petitioned had a 1.0 standard deviation discrepancy between IQ and achievement and were referred only for FL learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Graduation Requirements
Peer reviewedOlson, Richard; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Word recognition data from identical and fraternal twins and siblings (N=172) indicated that the phonological coding deficit of children with reading disabilities was highly heritable. Orthographic coding was not significantly heritable. Poor readers with low IQs were superior to similar reading but average IQ readers in phonological coding.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedSparks, Richard L.; Philips, Lois; Ganschow, Leonore; Javorsky, James – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
A study of 86 college students with learning disabilities (LD) that received permission to substitute courses for a foreign language (FL) requirement found that there were no differences in cognitive and academic achievement among students with different levels of discrepancy, graduating grade point average (GPA), or college FL GPA. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Grade Point Average
Peer reviewedD'Angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
Data from 143 children with reading disabilities (RD), 100 with arithmetic disabilities (AD), and 121 controls (ages 6-16) found the RD and AD groups had significantly lower scores on all verbal IQ subtests. Many also showed significant differences between verbal and performance IQ scores, but so did many controls. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient
