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Heterogeneity within the Gifted: Higher IQ Boys Exhibit Behaviors Resembling Boys with Learning Disabilities.
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Shaywitz, Sally E.; Holahan, John M.; Freudenheim, Daniele A.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Makuch, Robert W.; Shaywitz, Bennett A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2001
A study involving boys (grades 4-7) who were highly gifted (n=18), low gifted (n=17), had learning disabilities (n=26), and were typical (n=26), found highly gifted boys exhibited levels of behavioral problems similar to those with learning disabilities, whereas low gifted boys had lower levels than boys with learning disabilities. (Contains…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Hyperactivity
Specific Deficits in Component Reading and Language Skills: Genetic and Environmental Influences.
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Olson, Richard; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Word recognition data from identical and fraternal twins and siblings (N=172) indicated that the phonological coding deficit of children with reading disabilities was highly heritable. Orthographic coding was not significantly heritable. Poor readers with low IQs were superior to similar reading but average IQ readers in phonological coding.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Genetics, Heredity, Intelligence Differences
Diagnostic Differences between Educationally Handicapped and Learning Disabled Students.
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Eno, Lawrence; Woehlke, Paula – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
Though some unexpected sex differences were discovered, the two diagnostic categories were not found to be psychometrically distinct. Further, the results of a longitudinal analysis suggested that, while IQ scores remained relatively stable over time within a subset of the original sample, achievement scores definitely declined. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
Discriminative Validity of the WRAML with ADHD and LD in Children.
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Phelps, LeAdelle – Psychology in the Schools, 1996
Assesses the relationship of Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning scores to Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children II and Woodcock-Johnson-Revised results in three groups: (1) learning disabled children with reading difficulties; (2) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children; and (3) nonhandicapped referred children. Total sample…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education
Cognitive Functioning as Measured by the WISC-R: Do Children with Learning Disabilities Have Distinctive Patterns of Performance?
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D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
Data from 143 children with reading disabilities (RD), 100 with arithmetic disabilities (AD), and 121 controls (ages 6-16) found the RD and AD groups had significantly lower scores on all verbal IQ subtests. Many also showed significant differences between verbal and performance IQ scores, but so did many controls. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient
Test Scatter on the WISC-R in Learning Disabled Children.
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Tabachnick, Barbara Gerson – 1979
Scatter on the revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children (WISC-R) was evaluated for 105 learning disabled (LD) children. Scatter was defined as range of scaled scores on: (1) five regular verbal tests; (2) five regular performance tests; and (3) all 10 regular subtests. Pairwise combinations of 11 subtests were also evaluated for deviations…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests
An Investigation of Discrepancy Scores between Intelligence and WRAT-R Achievement in Mentally Retarded and Learning Disabled Students.
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Walthall, Joe; Smith, Terry – 1990
This study investigated the relationship between measured intelligence and discrepancies existing between actual achievement levels and projected achievement levels in mildly handicapped resource room students in Arkansas. Twenty-seven students had been identified as learning disabled and 19 as mildly mentally retarded. Subjects each received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification