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Rider, Mark S. – 1978
Two experiments involving 40 developmentally disabled children (7 to 13 years old) and 32 normal school children (from grades 2-5) were designed to produce a cognitive assessment tool, based on musical conservation tasks, which would be particularly useful with visually handicapped children. Implications from the research were that these tasks…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Disabilities
Peer reviewedKistner, Janet; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1988
Hyperlexic children have superior word recognition skills accompanied by delayed development of cognitive and language abilities. Assessment of four hyperlexic children (ages 5-9) confirmed their superior abilities to retain sound/symbol associations. Written prompts were then effectively used to increase functional speech in one of the subjects.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis
Peer reviewedGolomb, Claire; Schmeling, Jill – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Investigates the drawing and copying skills of nine autistic and eight mentally retarded children matched for mental age. Results indicate a similarity of performance for the drawing tasks and significant differences concerning the copying. Discusses the specific functions performed better by the autistic children and provides illustrative…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Autism
Download full textBailey, Don; Hatton, Deborah – 2001
This final report reviews the second phase of a life-span study of boys with fragile X syndrome (FSX), the most common known inherited cause of mental retardation. Males with the syndrome are more severely affected than females and in males, delays are usually evident in all the developmental domains, although cognitive and communication skills…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedBertrand, Jacquelyn; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Reviews the results of a longitudinal study examining the development of drawing skills of six children with Williams Syndrome. Presents quantitative and qualitative data regarding recognizability, organization, and developmental progress. Reveals that, although extremely delayed, the children made consistent progress in a manner similar to normal…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Childrens Art
Peer reviewedMilbrath, Constance; Siegel, Bryna – Visual Arts Research, 1996
Traces the development of artistic ability in a six-year-old boy with autism and mild mental retardation. Addresses questions concerning autism and artistic development including whether intellectual realism is a necessary precursor to visual realism and whether a two-dimensional photographic memory is used as opposed to three-dimensional…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art Therapy, Autism
