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The Role of Vision in Learning Disorders
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Allen, Merrill J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1977
Cited is research which indicates that ocular motor abnormalities in children with reading difficulties are factors in the processing of visual information. (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulty
Role of Naming in Delayed Matching-to-Sample
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Constantine, Betsy; Sidman, Murray – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
A delayed matching-to-sample task, with pictures as sample and comparison stimuli, was given to four severely retarded persons 17- to 22-years-old. (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Exceptional Child Research, Language Ability, Mental Retardation
Standards for Captioning Film and Television Programs for Deaf Children. Final Report.
New York Univ., NY. Deafness Research and Training Center. – 1977
The paper reports results and discusses implications of three studies on captioning films and television programs for deaf audiences. Study I dealt with the short-term visual memory required in recognition of fingerspelled letters, while study II focused on serial position effects and forward making (interference produced by first stimulus on the…
Descriptors: Captions, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Deafness
Focal and Incidental Learning to Visually and Auditorily Presented Material in Learning Disabled and Normal Children at Two Age Levels.
Quay, Lorene C.; Weld, Gary L. – 1977
Research on selective attention in learning disabled (LD) children is reviewed, and a study comparing the selective attention performance of 60 7-and 12-year-old LD and normal children to visual and auditory stimuli is reported. Each S was tested for focal and incidental memory individually in either the auditory or visual mode of stimulus…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Aural Learning, Children