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Mazher, Waseem – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
In this article, I present a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of two discourses in learning disabilities (LD)--the academic research literature on emotions of students labeled as LD and retrospective autobiographies from adults labeled as LD writing about their emotions as students. Drawing mainly on Foucaultian explanations of power, I…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, College Students, Autobiographies, Psychological Patterns
MacDonald, Elaine; Fitzsimons, Elaine; Walsh, Patricia Noonan – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
The study aimed to identify patterns of respite use and coping strategies among family caregivers in a region of Ireland. Firstly, we asked what child and family characteristics were associated with use of respite care. Secondly, we explored coping strategies reported by family carers. The study was undertaken with a view to informing respite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Respite Care, Family Size
Reading Area Community Coll., PA. – 1990
A project was conducted at Reading Area Community College (Pennsylvania) to develop the basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills of students with learning disabilities, to develop the self-esteem of these students, to motivate them, and to develop a model program that could be used by other adult education providers. The project featured a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction
Trepanier, Mary L.; Liben, Lynn S. – 1979
A set of studies investigated the relative importance of operative schemes and figurative (rote) memory. In Study I, 60 concrete operational children from grades 1-4 were asked to reconstruct two types of stimuli from memory. In order to separate the effects of operative and figurative skill use, learning disabled children with poor figurative…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Gaines, Beverley J.; Raskin, Larry M. – J Learning Disabilities, 1970
Based on a thesis submitted to the Graduate School of Purdue University by the first author. (Author)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Intermode Differences, Learning Disabilities, Pattern Recognition

Vance, Hubert "Booney"; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
The study investigated WISC-R subtest pattern scores of 58 learning disabled children. The evidence indicates that the low subtest scores on Arithmetic, Coding and Information were characteristic of this group. The study did not support the Verbal-Performance discrepancies as useful in the diagnosis of learning disabilities. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Ability, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education

Swanson, H. Lee – Intelligence, 1988
The differences between learning disabled (LD) and non-LD children's problem-solving protocols were analyzed during a picture arrangement task. Although the groups of 29 LD and 27 non-LD children were comparable in global mental processing and task performance, LD children had difficulty with representing problems and deleting irrelevant…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Swanson, Lee – 1978
This study compared the conceptual rule learning performance of normal and learning disabled children. Subjects for the study were 18 normal and 18 learning disabled children with mean ages of 9.4 and 9.3 years and mean IQ scores of 103.1 and 101.6 respectively. The children were matched for age, IQ, sex and race. Four types of rules (affirmation,…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students