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Sinatra, Richard – Academic Therapy, 1983
A visual/spatial nonverbal approach to sentence development for the reading and learning disabled uses pictures, model sentence configurations, and function words. Students are encouraged to contribute their own written language that conforms to the model. Visual and sentence clues provide input to the right brain, encouraging language learning.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
Weintraub, Sam, Comp.; Cowan, Robert J., Comp. – 1982
An update and modification of "Vision-Visual Discrimination" published in 1973, this annotated bibliography contains entries from the annual summaries of research in reading published by the International Reading Association (IRA) since then. The first large section, "Vision," is divided into two subgroups: (1) "Visually…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research
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Helfeldt, John P. – Reading World, 1983
Presents evidence to support the premise that boys reflect a predilection to process information visually, while girls reflect a preference to process information auditorally. Cautions against relying on isolated components such as hemispheric dominance or laterality during the identification and correction of reading problems. (FL)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences
Manis, Franklin R. – 1987
Although evidence is accumulating that the major reading difficulty dyslexics experience involves decoding and recognizing printed words, it is not clear that all dyslexics read poorly for the same reasons. A study investigated dyslexic children between 7 and 14 years of age to see if their reading errors and patterns of performance would enable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education