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Groenveld, M.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1990
This article discusses the increasing incidence of cortical visual impairments, resulting from medical advancements making possible the survival of critically ill children with severe brain damage. Discussed are the prevalence of multiple handicaps, formation of visual concepts, foreground/background distinction, potential for mainstreaming, use…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Incidence, Mainstreaming
Mackay, Harry A.; Soraci, Sal A.; Carlin, Michael T.; Dennis, Nancy A.; Strawbridge, Christina P. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Matching-to-sample skills are involved in language acquisition and reading and counting abilities. The rapid, even errorless, induction of matching performances in young children and 28 individuals with mental retardation (ages 11-20) was demonstrated through the structuring of a visual array that promoted detection of the relevant stimulus.…
Descriptors: Attention, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation, Training Methods
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Holt, David K. – Art Education, 1983
Discusses the relationship between aesthetic value and the improvement of perception of visual artwork. Recent experiments have attempted to improve visual perception of school children, and to study their developmental preferences in art. But art has moral dimensions, and aesthetic education must also facilitate the appreciation of aesthetic…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Art Education, Child Development
Bornstein, Joan L. – 1980
The booklet outlines ways to help children with learning disabilities in specific subject areas. Characteristic behavior and remedial exercises are listed for seven areas of auditory problems: auditory reception, auditory association, auditory discrimination, auditory figure ground, auditory closure and sound blending, auditory memory, and grammar…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Aural Learning
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
Bazeli, Marilyn; Robinson, Rhonda – 1997
The inclusion of critical thinking and viewing skills across the curriculum is one way to approach the development of problem solving, which could help develop the kind of students prepared to accept the challenges they face. Using popular media in teaching such skills links critical thinking to life in a way that keeps critical thinking from…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Development
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Conners, Frances A.; Detterman, Douglas K. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1987
Nineteen moderately/severely retarded students (ages 9-22) completed ten 15-minute computer-assisted instruction sessions and seven basic cognitive tasks measuring simple learning, choice reaction time, relearning, probed recall, stimulus discrimination, tachictoscopic threshold, and recognition memory. Stimulus discrimination, probed recall, and…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction