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Wiig, Elisabeth H.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1977
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition

Scheffelin, Margaret – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1971
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comprehension, Language Patterns, Language Research

Lapadat, Judith C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This meta-analysis of 33 studies compared the pragmatic language skills of 825 students (ages 3-12) having language and/or learning disabilities with the skills of nondisabled peers. The students with disabilities demonstrated consistent and pervasive pragmatic deficits in conversation, which were more attributable to underlying language deficits…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Language Handicaps, Language Patterns

Andolina, Charlene – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
Eighty learning disabled (LD) students at four age levels (ranging from 7 to 14) were studied to compare their vocabulary and syntactic maturity with normal children and to describe the developmental trends (using several instruments). (PHR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition

Fletcher, James – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
Two studies on the rhythmical patterns of eye movements during reading, displayed by adolescents with reading disabilities and by undergraduates without reading disabilities, revealed that subjects with reading disabilities exhibited rhythm variability, unpredictability, and lethargic tempos; and subjects who were primed exhibited improved parsing…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm

Brown, Virginia, Ed. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1975
Described is the Madison, Wisconsin public school Specialized Educational Services program and a Madison Title III teacher training project in the analysis of language interaction in academic subject areas. (DB)
Descriptors: Administration, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Language Handicaps

Jimenez, Juan E.; Siegel, Linda S.; Lopez, Mercedes Rodrigo – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
A study examined the role of intelligence in the definition of reading disabilities in languages with different orthographic systems. The study included 94 Spanish children and 157 English-speaking Canadian children and found significant differences between the languages when reading performances was analyzed as a function of verbal IQ scores.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Quotient

Houck, Cherry K.; Billingsley, Bonnie S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
A study compared the writing productivity, syntactic maturity, vocabulary, and mechanics of 48 learning-disabled and 48 normally achieving students in grades 4, 8, and 11. Learning-disabled students' written products were shorter, contained fewer sentences with more words per sentence, included fewer long words, and had more spelling and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 11, Grade 4