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Download full textKohen-Raz, Reuven – 1970
A sample of 247 Educationally Handicapped (EH) children at ages 6-10 was investigated to determine the role of static balance impairment in learning disabilities and the possibility of improving reading through balance training. Significant correlations between balance ability and reading level were found in only about 40% of the sample,…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Development
Lumsden, J. – Slow Learning Child, 1973
Criticized is a study which compared 19 retarded and 19 advanced grade 3 readers and concluded that the presence of three or more perceptual or psycholinguistic immaturities was likely to be a critical factor in reading ability. (DB)
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Maturation
Peer reviewedBelmont, Ira; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1973
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Learning
Peer reviewedHalliwell, Joseph W.; Solan, Harold A. – Exceptional Children, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Development
Cahn, Lorynne; Hodges, Joan – Academic Therapy, 1973
The importance of including an occupational therapist in an interdisciplinary team to assess learning disabilities is demonstrated with the case of an 8-year-old boy who was evaluated and diagnosed as having severe reading disabilities and perceptual dysfunction. (MC)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities
Samuels, S. Jay – 1971
Tasks involved in paired associate learning (attention, perceptual learning, visual and auditory memory, response learning, and stimulus-response connections) are identified as some of the same skills and strategies involved in learning to read. Two studies on visual memory, the developmental lag hypothesis, and reading ability are examined to…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Sapir, Selma G., Ed.; Nitzburg, Ann C., Ed. – 1973
This comprehensive volume presents selected articles representing the major viewpoints on learning problems in children. Specialized practitioners in the fields of special education, psychology, psychiatry, and social work are encouraged to reject a narrow, limited perspective, and to view the child with a learning problem as a single, constantly…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Educational Diagnosis
Peer reviewedSulivan, Joanna – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1972
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research, High School Students, Learning Disabilities
