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Mahan, Virginia; Shaughnessy, Michael F. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1993
This article examines the various types and functions of mnemonic strategies that may be used to expedite recall in students with learning disabilities, reviews the research concerning mnemonics, and provides a critical analysis of mnemonics as it relates to people with learning disabilities. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Long Term Memory

Samuels, S. Jay – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
A major focus in reading difficulty is lack of automaticity in decoding, which overloads the attentional system, leads to the use of small, meaningless visual processing units such as the individual letter, places heavy demands on short-term memory, and interferes with comprehension. Techniques for diagnosis and remediation are noted. (Author/JW)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education
Kelly, Evelyn B. – 1994
This Fastback contends that educators are in the memory business, that memory is probably our most maligned faculty, that forgetting is a fact of life, and that overall memory skills can be learned. The booklet addresses the following questions: How justified are people's complaints about memory? How much is myth and how much is fact? What memory…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Learning Strategies, Long Term Memory
Keefe, James W., Ed. – 1988
In 1986, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, with the assistance of a national task force, published the NASSP Learning Style Profile (LSP) for diagnosis of the cognitive styles, perceptual response tendencies, and instructional preferences of middle level and senior high school students. This monograph offers a short course…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Richards, Regina G. – 2003
This book is a comprehensive guide to learning and memory strategies for all students and especially those with learning problems. Chapter 1, on memory and the brain, explains brain cells, the cortex, function of the cerebral lobes, and other brain structures. Chapter 2 examines the memory process and discusses sensory memory, short-term memory,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Learning Problems
Osberger, Mary Joe, Ed. – 1986
The monograph consists of 13 author contributed chapters arising out of a Nebraska study which attempted to quantify the performance of 150 profoundly hearing impaired students (4-20 years old) in the areas of language (receptive and expressive), academics (reading, spelling, math), and related learning (visual perception and short-term memory)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Audiology, Communication Skills
Online Submission, 2005
These papers are partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Education at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. The cohort included a variety of licensure areas that represent most levels and content areas of K-12 education. The students were encouraged to keep their questions and hypothesis directed at…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Research Papers (Students), Elementary Secondary Education, Anthologies