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Peer reviewedCherkes-Julkowski, Miriam; And Others – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1991
This study investigated the effects of prompting, or directing/controlling attention, during a reasoning task on the performance of 68 children with attention deficit disorders, learning disabilities, or no handicaps, in grades 1-12. All groups benefited from prompting, and prompting was related to a different set of cognitive processes in each…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedCherkes-Julkowski, Miriam; Stolzenberg, Jonathan – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1991
Two discriminant function analyses were conducted to determine the cognitive/educational profile which differentiated 4 groups of 68 elementary/secondary level students: attention deficit disorder (ADD), with and without medication; learning disabilities (LD); and nonhandicapped. By treating the LD and nonmedicated ADD subjects as one group, a…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Discriminant Analysis
Direct linkBeyda, Sandra D. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003
Theatre is a powerful tool for organizing one's experience. It is an instructional technique that motivates students as they seek to understand and communicate their learning. This article provides a foundation for using theatre as a learning strategy in the content areas for students with reading and learning disabilities, using metacognition as…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
