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A Rapid Screening Measure for the Identification of Visuospatial Learning Disability in Schools.
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Cornoldi, Cesare; Venneri, Annalena; Marconato, Fabio; Molin, Adriana; Montinari, Cinzia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
An 18-item "Shortened Visuospatial Questionnaire" (SVS) was validated twice, first by verifying that children (ages 8-13) identified with the SVS questionnaire as having visuospatial learning disability (VSLD) (n=54) actually showed visuospatial deficits on psychometric evaluation, and second, by rating with the SVS a clinically identified…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Questionnaires
Clock Drawing in Developmental Dyslexia.
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Eden, Guinevere F.; Wood, Frank B.; Stein, John F. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
A study involving 93 children (ages 10-12), 295 with poor reading skills, found many children with dyslexia and some garden-variety poor readers showed significant left neglect on the Clock Drawing Test. In poor readers with dyslexia, spatial construction deficits were observed like those of parents with acquired right-hemisphere lesions.…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Etiology
Auditory Factor in Visual Motor Testing and Training
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Clark, Charles M.; Dodd, Byron E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1971
The paper suggests that the use of a single visual-motor test, (here, the Winter Haven Perceptual Forms Test) as a screening device for visual-motor difficulties in the first grade is questionable. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Exceptional Child Research, Perceptual Handicaps, Perceptual Motor Learning