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Direct linkEnglert, Carol Sue; Wu, Xiuwen; Zhao, Yong – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
This study entailed the implementation and evaluation of a Web-based technology designed to support the writing performance of fourth- and fifth-grade students with learning disabilities (LD). The technology, Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments on the Web (TELE-Web), was implemented in a resource room setting involving 12 students with LD in…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Internet, Learning Disabilities
Liddell, Glennis A.; Rasmussen, Carmen – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
The aim of this study was to compare visual and verbal memory in children with nonverbal learning disability (NLD) using the Children's Memory Scale and to identify the profile of strengths and weaknesses in visual memory abilities. Performance was significantly lower on measures of visual than verbal memory, indicating that children with NLD have…
Descriptors: Profiles, Memory, Nonverbal Learning, Neurological Impairments
Ofiesh, Nicole S.; Hughes, Charles; Scott, Sally S. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
The most frequently requested accommodation among students with learning disabilities (LD) in postsecondary settings is extended test time. The frequency with which this accommodation is requested and granted compels disability service providers to become knowledgeable about the factors that influence the need for, and appropriateness of, the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Diagnostic Tests, Learning Disabilities, Testing Accommodations
Butler, Deborah L.; Beckingham, Beverly; Lauscher, Helen J. Novak – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
This article presents three in-depth case studies focused on supporting students with learning challenges to learn math strategically. Participants were three eighth-grade students enrolled in a learning assistance classroom who were of at least average intelligence but who were performing significantly below grade level in mathematics. These case…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education, Intelligence, Case Studies
Smith, Courtney B.; Watkins, Marley W. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
Regrouping Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) subtests into Bannatyne's spatial, conceptual, and sequential patterns has been thought by many to identify children with learning disabilities (LD). This study investigated the prevalence and diagnostic utility of WISC-III Bannatyne patterns by comparing 1,302 children…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intelligence, Learning Disabilities, Intelligence Tests
Tur-Kaspa, Hana – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
The study examined the social-information-processing skills of kindergarten children with developmental learning disabilities (LD) utilizing Crick and Dodge's (1994) model of children's social adjustment as a theoretical framework. Participants consisted of 20 kindergarten children with developmental LD who attended three integrated kindergartens…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Gender Differences, Learning Disabilities, Social Adjustment
Margalit, Malka – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
The goal of this commentary is to focus attention on the various protective factors examined by the four studies of this special issue, in order to predict resilient functioning. These factors include internal factors (cognitive information processing, affective information processing-the attachment-proximity conceptualization) as well as external…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Learning Disabilities, Information Processing, Personality Traits
Meltzer, Lynn; Katzir, Tamar; Miller, Lynne; Reddy, Ranjini; Roditi, Bethany – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
This study investigated changes in teachers' and students' perceptions of students' effort, strategy use, and academic difficulties when strategy instruction was infused into the classroom curriculum. The sample consisted of 201 students with learning disabilities, 210 average achievers, and 57 teachers from Grades 4-9 in two urban and suburban…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Investigations, Spelling, Learning Disabilities
Wagner, Richard K.; Francis, David J.; Morris, Robin D. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
The need for effective approaches for identifying English language learners with learning disabilities is great and growing. Meeting this need is complicated by recent developments in the field of learning disabilities that are unrelated to the English language learning status, and by limitations in existing knowledge specific to the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Identification, English (Second Language), Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedSlate, John R.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
This study, involving 64 students with specific learning disabilities, found positive correlations between the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC-III) and the Arithmetic subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R), the KeyMath-Revised, and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, but not between the WISC-III and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedGraham, Steve; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
The Directed Spelling Thinking Activity (DSTA) is a method of teaching spelling to students with learning disabilities by encouraging active thinking and analysis of word patterns. With DSTA, students compare and contrast words that fit different but related spelling patterns. Words illustrating 37 spelling patterns are listed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedCawley, John F.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
Comparison of the computation ability in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of 155 students (ages 9-14) with learning disabilities (LD) and 266 normally achieving (NA) students demonstrated that NA students outperformed students with LD. Students with LD had more algorithmic errors, and failed to show growth patterns by age. NA…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computation, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBulgren, Janis A.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
Twelve high school students with learning disabilities were instructed in a strategy to identify and remember pairs or small groups of information. Results showed student improvement in test performance and creation of study cards. Students had distinct preferences among mnemonic devices and adapted strategies based on previous experience. (DB)
Descriptors: High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedGerber, Paul J.; Brown, Dale – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
The consensus conference on learning disabilities and employment sponsored by the President's Committee on Employment of Persons with Disabilities in May 1990 is described. Decisions and proposals made in the key areas of work preparation, vocational entry, reasonable accommodation, job advancement, socioadaptability, attitudes, and definitions…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Potential, Entry Workers, Job Placement
Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee; Christie, Lynda – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
Three studies investigated 98 children's and 252 adults' implicit knowledge about learning disabilities. Overall, the studies suggested that professionals outside the field of special education, as well as nondisabled children, have fairly well-developed ideas about what constitutes a learning disability. Exemplars of tacit knowledge matched most…
Descriptors: Adults, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Definitions
