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Yousef Dehghani; Faride Sadat Hoseini; Fateme Jamshidi – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of the EASY Minds program on working memory and selective attention of a group of Iranian students with maths learning disabilities. The study had a quasi-experimental research design with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up tests. Forty students with maths learning disabilities were randomly…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Mathematics Instruction
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Aguilar, Jessica M.; Plante, Elena – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: Two studies examined learning of grammar-like visual sequences to determine whether a general deficit in statistical learning characterizes this population. Furthermore, we tested the hypothesis that difficulty in sustaining attention during the learning task might account for differences in statistical learning. Method: In Study 1,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Adults, Language Impairments, Learning Disabilities
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Tobia, Valentina; Marzocchi, Gian Marco – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
The aim of this study was to investigate verbal and nonverbal cognitive deficits in Italian students with developmental dyslexia. The performances of 32 dyslexic students, 64 age-matched typically reading controls, and 64 reading age-matched controls were compared on tests of lexical knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Bryant, Susan K.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
A span-of-apprehension task and a backward masking technique were combined to allow measurement of the apprehension span of a sample of 34 learning disabled and normal boys about 8 to 13 years old at various time intervals following stimulus presentation. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Attention, Learning Disabilities, Reaction Time, Time Factors (Learning)
Carter, John L. – 1969
Forty-two brain injured boys and 42 non brain injured boys (aged 11-6 to 12-6) were tested to determine the effects of increasing amounts of visual and auditory distraction on reading performance. The Stanford Achievement Reading Comprehension Test was administered with three degrees of distraction. The visual distraction consisted of either very…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities