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Action Psychology: Learning as the Interiorization of Action in Early Instruction of Mathematically Disabled Learners.
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Van Erp, J. W. M.; Heshusius, L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
A teaching-learning procedure in early instruction in mathematics is anchored in Piagetian and Russian psychology and traces internalization processes that occur between material and mental actions, namely perceptual actions of visualization and imagination, verbal action, symbolization, and generalization. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Mathematics, Perceptual Development, Teaching Methods
Elementary Crutches.
Elwinger, Elyda S. – Academic Therapy, 1983
The author discusses the role of educational "crutches" that help elementary learning disabled children in tasks involving spatial orientation, visual perception, and auditory short-term memory. Teachers are cautioned to observe how children act in different situations and to allow them whatever "crutches" are effective. (CL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Teaching Reading to the Child with Perceptual Deficits
Shore, Bernard; Riegel, Paula – Academic Therapy, 1978
The article reviews techniques which incorporate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities in developing reading skills of perceptually handicapped students. (CL)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities, Perceptual Development
Project: "Teach 'n' Reach" Learning Handicapped: Developmentally Disabled, Learning Disabled. (Book 3 out of 4.)
Kagan, Arleen – 1981
The fourth of five volumes (and the third of four curriculum guides) in the Project Teach 'n' Reach series presents curriculum suggestions to help regular classroom teachers teach nondisabled students about learning handicaps. The developmentally disabled are considered in terms of anatomical structures of the brain, etiology, definition, sensory…
Descriptors: Definitions, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
A Critique of the Application of Sensory Integration Therapy to Children with Learning Disabilities.
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Hoehn, Theodore P.; Baumeister, Alfred A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This article critically examines issues of whether children with learning disabilities differentially exhibit concomitant problems in sensory integration (SI) and whether such children are helped by SI therapy. It concludes that research findings indicate that SI therapy is not merely unproven but a demonstrably ineffective remedial treatment for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Outcomes of Treatment
An Analysis of WISC-R Factors for Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Waldron, Karen A.; Saphire, Diane G. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
Twenty-four gifted children with learning disabilities and a control group of nondisabled gifted children were administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. The 8- to 12-year-old subjects were found to be more reliant on verbal conceptualization and reasoning than controls and demonstrated deficiencies in short-term auditory…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education
Artistic Expression through Exposure to the Right Brain Mode and Corresponding Relationship to the Learning Disabled.
Nutter, Susann C. – 1983
Research on hemispheric mode functioning indicates that some connections exist between learning disabilities (LD) and right-mode dominance, which suggests that instruction should be offered to develop right hemispheric (spatial perception) abilities in LD persons. The influence on student drawing of the right-left hemispheric shift during reading…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Elementary Secondary Education, Freehand Drawing