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Learning Strategies: An Instructional Alternative for Low-Achieving Adolescents.
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Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B. – Exceptional Children, 1986
The University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities has designed and validated a set of task-specific learning strategies to teach mildly disabled students "how to learn" so they can more effectively cope with increased curriculum expectations. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Secondary Education
Teaching Potentially Educationally Handicapped Children to Classify and Remember
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Riegel, R. Hunt; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1973
Twenty-eight learning disabled children, 6 1/2 years of age, who lacked skills and maturity for first grade placement, were tested randomly, assigned to groups, and trained either in a sequence of activities to improve grouping and memory strategies (experimentals) or in a specialized program of art experiences (controls). (MC)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Exceptional Child Research
Strategy Training: A Need for Clarification.
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deBettencourt, Laurie U. – Exceptional Children, 1987
Based on three areas of research (memory, selective attention, and metacognition), three strategy training interventions with learning disabled children are described: Lloyd's academic strategy training, Torgeson's strategy training, and Deshler's learning strategies model. Individual approaches may be appropriate only for selected subgroups of…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Vocabulary Development of Educable Retarded Children
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Taylor, Arthur M.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1977
Three approaches to vocabulary instruction were developed based on research from the training of verbal elaboration strategies with 107 educable mentally retarded children ages 8-11. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation, Learning Processes
Relationship between Modality Preference and Performance
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Waugh, R. P. – Exceptional Children, 1973
The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities was administered to 166 second graders who were classifed as auditory or visual learners on the basis of discrepancies in individual test profiles. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Children, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Elaborated Corrective Feedback and the Acquisition of Reasoning Skills: A Study of Computer-Assisted Instruction.
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Collins, Maria; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1987
Thirteen learning disabled and 15 remedial high school students were taught reasoning skills using computer-assisted instruction and were given basic or elaborated corrections. Criterion-referenced test scores were significantly higher for the elaborated-corrections treatment on the post- and maintenance tests and on a transfer test assessing…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Feedback
Comparing Small Group and Tutorial Instruction in Resource Rooms
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Jenkins, Joseph R.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1974
Compared were the effects of small group instruction and cross-age tutorial instruction on 29 learning disabled, educable retarded, or emotionally disturbed elementary school children in a resource room setting. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Using Withdrawal of Positive Reinforcement to Alter Subtraction Performance
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Lovitt, Thomas C.; Smith, Deborah D. – Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Effects of Delay of Reinforcement on Retarded Children's Learning
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Piper, Terrence J. – Exceptional Children, 1971
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Curriculum Adaptations and Modifications for Culturally Diverse Handicapped Children.
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Almanza, Helen P.; Mosley, William J. – Exceptional Children, 1980
Curriculum methods and materials need to address the values, individual traits, and learning styles of the handicapped child with racial or ethnic differences. (SBH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo, Cultural Differences
Effect of Background Music on Learning
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Stainback, Susan B.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Learning Processes