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Nichols, E. G.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The study of 813 learning disabled children (ages 6-11) with test-retest data (after three years) on 224 children found the children to suffer a progressive deterioration in verbal ability whereas their nonverbal ability showed an increase in the earlier years, leveling off thereafter. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities
Scott, Marcia S. – 1972
The research experiments on relational learning in young children contained in this report were guided by two major goals: (1) to examine the extent of conceptual transfer in preschool children, and (2) to explore the relation of both "acquisition" and "transfer" to chronological development. The performance of preschool…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation