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Galway, Tanya M.; Metsala, Jamie L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
The current study examined social cognitive skills in children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) compared to normally achieving (NA) children. The relation between social cognitive skills and psychosocial adjustment was also investigated. There were no group differences on children's ability to represent orally presented social vignettes.…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Cues, Learning Disabilities, Nonverbal Learning
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Das, J. P.; Ojile, Emmanuel – Journal of Special Education, 1995
Comparison of cognitive performance of 51 students with hearing loss and 64 hearing students indicated that, at age 10, students with hearing loss performed better on nonverbal tasks and worse on verbal tasks. At age 13, students with hearing loss performed poorly in both verbal and nonverbal tasks. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Hearing Impairments, Intermediate Grades, Nonverbal Learning
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Yang, Chu-Ling; Wedman, John F. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1993
This study investigated conditions for optimizing college students' analogical problem solving. Students given pictorial (not verbal) representations of solutions to source problems were better problem solvers, as were students given a longer time. Students who derived personal solution principles to source problems were not superior to students…
Descriptors: Analogy, College Students, Higher Education, Nonverbal Learning
Rieber, Lloyd P. – 1994
This paper presents a historical overview of visualization as a human problem-solving tool. Visualization strategies, such as mental imagery, pervade historical accounts of scientific discovery and invention. A selected number of historical examples are presented and discussed on a wide range of topics such as physics, aviation, and the science of…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making