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Swisher, Linda; Plante, Elena – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1993
This study examined patterns of nonverbal intelligence test performance of 11 preschool children with and 12 without specific language impairments. The study found group differences in relations among nonverbal cognitive skills. Results suggest caution in using nonverbal intelligence tests normed on nondisabled children with children having…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Language Handicaps, Nonverbal Tests
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Chow, Diana; Skuy, Mervyn – School Psychology International, 1999
Compares performance of children (N=19) with nonverbal language disabilities to a group of children (N=16) with language learning disabilities using the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC). As hypothesized, children with nonverbal learning disabilities were found to have significantly higher simultaneous successive processing scores.…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Language Impairments
Gilchrist, William P.; Burry, Judith A. – 1988
To study the applicability of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) for assessing hearing-impaired children, nine hearing-impaired children (ranging in age from 6 years 4 months to 11 years 10 months) were administered the battery. Hearing losses for the nine children ranged from moderate to profound. During the evaluation of seven…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Hearing Impairments
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Ulissi, Stephen Mark; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
Fifty hearing-impaired elementary-school students completed the Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children; scores correlated highly with scores from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and with school achievement. The Simultaneous Processing Scale and the Nonverbal Scale seemed appropriate for hearing-impaired children while the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Education
Wade, H. L.; And Others – Diagnostique, 1988
Forty-eight preschool-age children were administered the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children-Nonverbal Scale and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) Performance Scale. Pearson product-moment correlations between the two scales ranged from .59 for a language-delayed group to .79 for the entire sample. Subjects…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Intelligence Tests, Language Acquisition
Smith, Douglas K.; Bauer, Joseph J. – 1989
The Stanford-Binet (Fourth Edition) (S-B:FE) and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) were administered in counterbalanced order to a sample of 30 non-handicapped, preschool children (13 males and 17 females). The children ranged in age from 3 years 11 months to 6 years 2 months, with a mean age of 4 years 11 months. Mean scores on the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Factor Analysis, Intelligence Tests
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Porter, Larry James; Kirby, Edward Aaron – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Investigated the use of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC)-Nonverbal Scale with severely hearing impaired children (N=49), using two instructional sets (American sign language (ASL) plus pantomime and gestures, or pantomime and gesture (PG) instructions only). Support is provided for the appropriateness of the K-ABC, for use with…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Deafness, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Smith, Douglas K. – 1988
The Matrix Analogies Test-Expanded Form (MAT-EF) and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) were administered in counterbalanced order to two randomly selected samples of students in grades 2 through 5. The MAT-EF was recently developed to measure non-verbal reasoning. The samples included 26 non-handicapped second graders in a rural…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education