A relatively recent phenomenon of interest within the field of twice-exceptionality involves gifted children with autism. A literature search reveals a lack of published works about these individuals and empirical studies exploring the distinctive special educational needs of these children remain scarce (Nicpon et al., 2011; Rubenstein et al.,…

Evoked potentials and performance of 19 learning disabled (LD) and 19 normally achieving children (8 to 15 years old) were studied in two versions of the Continuous Performance Test (CPT). Results suggest a deficit in behavioral and cortical indices of sustained attention among LD children. (Author)

The creative ability of 39 elementary grade children diagnosed as learning disabled was measured on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. (Author/CL)

Two experiments examined the ability of learning disabled versus nondisabled third to fifth grade children (N=20) to ingratiate an adult interviewer. In each experiment an equal number of disabled and nondisabled youngsters were instructed to act natural, and an equal number were instructed to "try and get the lady to like you." Naive college…

A study involving deaf and hearing children investigated the perceptual abilities of deaf children employing tasks with both simultaneously and sequentially presented stimulus material. A series of motion picture tests, mostly involving abstract geometric figures, suggested that deaf and hearing children are comparable on visual memory tasks and…

The study, which assessed the practicality of influencing the construal of grammatical relations by manipulation of a nonsyntactic variable, plausibility, indicated that the referential meaning of individual words can influence the construal of word combinations though the deaf need further training in the denotative and connotative meanings of…

To determine the inquiry strategies which would be acquired by deaf children involved in a science-oriented inquiry development program based on J. Suchman's discrepant event approach, 27 deaf students aged 10 to 13, in five groups, responded to eight discrepant events related to the science topic of heat. (Author)

The relationship between the ingestion of artificial food colors and an increase in selected hyperactive behaviors in two hyperactive females (eight years old) was studied. (Author/BD)

Various testing-the-limits procedures were employed in administering the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices test to 108 subjects with learning difficulties (age range 8.4 to 12.9 years). (Author)