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Cornoldi, Cesare; Rivella, Carlotta; Montesano, Lorena; Toffalini, Enrico – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Letters and numbers are different domains, and their differentiation increases with schooling. It has nonetheless been argued that reading alphabetic and numerical materials partly involves the same processes, even in adults. Whether individuals with dyslexia have difficulty reading and writing numbers remains to be established. This study…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Young Adults, Reading Difficulties, Numbers
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Gregg, Noel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
The article examines two topics important to educators working with learning disabled college writers: error patterns of college learning disabled, normal, and basic writers across different tasks and instructional approaches successful in improvng the written language skills of college learning disabled writers, such as sentence combining and…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Learning Disabilities, Teaching Methods
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Gregg, Noel; Coleman, Chris; Stennett, Robert B.; Davis, Mark – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
A study examined specific word- and sentence-level features most frequently used in the expository writing of 87 college students with learning disabilities, 50 with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, 58 with both disabilities, and 92 controls. Very high correlations were found between verbosity, quality, and lexical complexity. (Contains…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, College Students, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing
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Ganschow, Leonore; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This comparison of 15 successful and 15 unsuccessful college foreign-language learners found significant intergroup differences in performance on the Modern Language Aptitude Test, tests of written and oral language in the syntactic and phonological domains, and math calculation. Results suggest that students with foreign language learning…
Descriptors: College Students, English, Handicap Identification, Higher Education