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Peer reviewedAllen, Merrill J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1977
Cited is research which indicates that ocular motor abnormalities in children with reading difficulties are factors in the processing of visual information. (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedRyckman, David B. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
Sex differences between 27 learning disabled (LD) girls and 75 LD boys (all elementary school age) were examined on psychological, academic, and cognitive style measures. LD girls were found to be verbally inferior, less capable of abstract thinking, more field dependent, and more impulsive than the boys. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedCherkes, Miriam – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
The processing of a transitivity task by 7-, 9-, 11-, and 13-year-old learning disabled children was studied. All Ss, regardless of age, received highest scores on tasks involving linguistic input. There was no evidence of a developmental shift from spatial into linguistic reasoning. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Developmental Stages, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedLombardi, Thomas P. – Mental Retardation, 1975
Utilizing the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and the Slosson Intelligence Test, 34 children from three intermediate classes designed for the educable mentally retarded were evaluated to denote inter- and intravariability of their learning abilities. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Design, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Stevenson, Lillian P. – 1979
The study investigated the functional patterns of intellectual performance on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) of 55 children (ages 5-to-18 years) referred to a child center to determine if the WISC-R profiles could help identify the children as learning disabled. Secondarily the study utilized the factor-score…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Style, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textLoper, Ann B.; Hallahan, Daniel P. – 1979
The relationship between academic performance and cognitive tempo as measured by the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF) was investigated in 66 learning disabled children (ages 7 to 12 years). Results of a simple correlation analysis indicated the test to be a sensitive predictor of achievement; however, this relationship was substantially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Conceptual Tempo
Quay, Lorene C.; Weld, Gary L. – 1977
Research on selective attention in learning disabled (LD) children is reviewed, and a study comparing the selective attention performance of 60 7-and 12-year-old LD and normal children to visual and auditory stimuli is reported. Each S was tested for focal and incidental memory individually in either the auditory or visual mode of stimulus…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Aural Learning, Children
Peer reviewedTama, M. Carrol; Martinez, David H. – Social Studies, 1988
Examines research about learning disabled (LD) students and presents an LD learning-style profile. Describes a learning activity, TELSQA, that social studies teachers can use to encourage reading comprehension. TELSQA asks students to identify title (T), examine material (E), look for important words (L), self-question (SQ), and answer…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Exceptional Child Research
