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Peer reviewedBartsch, Karen; Wellman, Henry M. – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Investigated preschoolers' understanding of two distance principles: the direct-indirect and the same-plus principle. Children did better on tasks relevant to the principles than on principle-irrelevant tasks. Concluded that even young children conceive of distance as fixed intervals. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Distance, Kinesthetic Perception, Perceptual Motor Learning
Download full textStockman, Ida J. – 1986
The paper describes an innovative treatment approach to severe learning disabilities in use in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The multisensory approach is based on the assumption that learning disabled children have perceptual cognitive deficits. Reality based problem-solvng events connected with tactile-kinesthetic input become the primary foci of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
