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Peer reviewedAndolina, 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
Peer reviewedHouck, 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
