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Download full textHall, Vernon; Caldwell, Edward – 1970
Research indicates that young children seem to have considerable difficulty in discrimination between the letters b, c, p, and q. Also, 4-year-olds appear to commonly make rotation and reversal errors with letter-like forms. Whether young children will perform significantly better or not in deciding whether two shapes are called same or different…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Children, Nursery Schools, Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewedSassenrath, Julius M.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
A group of 190 third through sixth graders were given either 6, 16, or 26 months of reading instruction with functional color components (FCC) of parts of words. Another 160 children in the same schools did not recieve FCC instruction. FCC brought about improvement in reading scores. Nondisability children showed greater improvement. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Color, Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties
Groffman, Sidney – 1970
An experimental test of visual closure based on an information-theory concept of perception was devised to test the ability to discriminate visual stimuli with reduced cues. The test is to be administered in a timed individual situation in which the subject is presented with sets of incomplete drawings of simple objects that he is required to name…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Correlation, Depth Perception
Kaye, D. B.; And Others – 1980
To determine the developmental level at which letter processing skills become automatic, an experiment was conducted using a variant of the visual search task. Subjects in grades one, two, and three and in college searched for target letters displayed on a cathode ray tube along with either visually confusable letters, acoustically confusable…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1982
Research reports on the nature of speech, instrumentation for the investigation of speech, and practical applications of speech research are presented in this status report. The 18 reports deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) cyclic production of vowels in sequences of monosyllabic stress feet; (2) differences between…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Children
Debes, John L. – 1972
New approaches are needed if educators are to deal successfully with the problem of teaching children to learn to read words well. Interesting questions come to the fore if those who seek solutions to this difficulty regard the reading of words as a subset of the wider problem of reading the class of visual signs in general, which includes (1)…
Descriptors: Body Language, Children, Nonverbal Communication, Reading
