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Peer reviewedJames, Angela L.; Barry, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1981
Employed a developmental context to discuss the problem of assessing both quantitative and qualitative deficits in the behavioral profiles of various diagnostic subcategories of developmentally disabled children. Methods of appropriate matching of control groups are suggested to help delineate specific and general deficits in subgroups of…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Control Groups, Developmental Disabilities
Direct linkWilkinson, Krista M. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2005
Wilkinson and Green (1998) reported that differences in the procedure by which new words were introduced to learners with cognitive impairments significantly affected their accuracy in later tests of receptive understanding of word meanings. However, a limited sample and no control group rendered the data preliminary. Here, I replicated and…
Descriptors: Matched Groups, Down Syndrome, Experimental Groups, Etiology
