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Turner Syndrome: Genetic and Hormonal Factors Contributing to a Specific Learning Disability Profile
Rovet, Joanne – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
Turner Syndrome (TS) is a genetic disorder affecting primarily females. It arises from a loss of X-chromosome material, most usually one of the two X chromosomes. Affected individuals have a number of distinguishing somatic features, including short stature and ovarian dysgenesis. Individuals with TS show a distinct neurocognitive profile…
Descriptors: Profiles, Brain, Learning Disabilities, Congenital Impairments

Wiener, Judith; Sunohara, Glen – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
Parents of 16 children (ages 10 to 14) with learning disabilities were interviewed about their perceptions of the quality of friendship of their children. Mothers sometimes disagreed that child-nominated friends were truly friends and often attributed their children's problems with friendships to social immaturity or social-skills deficits.…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Interviews
Meadan, Hedda; Halle, James W. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
As a group, students with learning disabilities (LD) have social difficulties. One possible explanation for these difficulties is the unique way they process social information. Although students with LD may differ from their nondisabled peers in their social cognition, investigators have suggested the presence of subgroups within the population…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Interpersonal Competence, Social Status

McLeod, Terry M.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
This study examined agreement among 59 regular education high school teachers, 188 normally achieving high school students, and 50 high school students with learning disabilities (LD) concerning social and school skills important for success in the mainstream. Results revealed that teachers differed significantly from LD students on 16 skills and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming

Wiener, Judith; Harris, P. J. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
An individualized, classroom-based social skills training program was evaluated using 45 children (ages 9-12) with learning disabilities in special education classes. Thirteen children received a 6-week intervention, 7 received a 12-week intervention, and 25 received no training. Children in the six-week program showed gains in social skills and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence

Vaughn, Sharon; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Ten learning-disabled elementary students experiencing peer rejection participated in a 20-week intervention with a contextualist training model. Five of the 10 students' social status was classified as unrejected at the postintervention measure, and there were significant increases in positive peer nominations for males at posttest and 6-month…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention

Seidel, John F.; Vaughn, Sharon – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
This study sought to determine differences in expressed attitudes of social alienation between 20 learning-disabled (LD) school completers and 17 LD school dropouts. Results indicated that dropouts felt more socially alienated toward classmates and teachers than school completers did. Risk models for LD school dropouts should include social…
Descriptors: Alienation, Dropout Attitudes, Dropouts, High Schools

Tur-Kaspa, Hana; Bryan, Tanis – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
Thirty students with learning disabilities (LDs) performed less competently on five information-processing steps than did average-achieving students. Compared to average and low achieving students, LD subjects exhibited a unique problem in the encoding of social information and in their tendency to select incompetent self-generated solutions to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Encoding (Psychology)

Forness, Steven R.; Kavale, Kenneth A. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
The Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities' definition of learning disabilities implies that the presence of social skills deficits alone suffices for diagnosis, even in the absence of academic difficulties. Overlaps between this criterion and eligibility criteria for emotional disturbance are discussed along with implications for…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances

Hartas, Dimitra; Donahue, Mavis L. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
Discourse analysis of audiotapes of simulated telephone hotline conversations of adolescent dyads consisting of either one, two, or no adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) found that adolescents with and without LD were equally skilled at requesting advice, but adolescents with LD had significantly greater difficulty generating solutions to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication

Mishna, Faye – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
Four boys and 4 girls (ages 13-17) with learning disabilities were interviewed upon completion of psychodynamic group therapy to obtain their perspectives of the group. Results indicate that the participants regarded the therapy as beneficial. The phenomenon of "mutual recognition" led to enhanced self-esteem and ability to relate to peers. (CR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Group Therapy, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities

Bryan, Tanis – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
A model is presented for assessing students with learning disabilities suspected of having social difficulties. Categories for assessment are described, including affective status, self-efficacy, social status, social skills, and the absence of destructive behaviors. Examples of assessment measures are provided for each category and the model's…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities

Rosenthal, Irwin – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Various client-centered, dynamic, and cognitive/behavioral counseling approaches are suggested for development of greater social awareness and competence, more positive self-esteem, and a more cohesive sense of self in learning-disabled adolescents and adults. Individual case vignettes are offered to explain both the rationale and strategies of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior Change, Counseling Techniques