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Metaphor Comprehension by Language Learning Disabled and Normally Achieving Adolescent Boys.
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Jones, Jacqueline; Stone, C. Addison – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
Sixteen language learning-disabled adolescents were able to provide fewer correct metaphor interpretations than 16 normally achieving adolescents. For both groups, metaphors were easier to interpret by paraphrase selection than by verbal explanation, and perceptual metaphors were easier to interpret than psychological metaphors. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, High Schools, Language Handicaps, Learning Disabilities
From Frog to Prince: Using Written Language as a Context for Language Learning.
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Norris, Janet A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
This article presents strategies, including communicative reading strategies, to facilitate holistic language learning in young children with language and learning disorders. Strategies include pairing oral and written language and using preparatory sets, semantic maps, flowcharts, and theme building. An example of narrative discourse demonstrates…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Holistic Approach, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Bring the Cow into the Classroom: Focus on Language
Serio, Martha – Acad Therap Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
Relationship between Selected Auditory and Visual Receptive Skills and Academic Achievement.
Bryant, Lynda Carol – 1976
To observe the relationship of auditory and visual receptive skills to achievement in reading, 80 eight-year-old children were given a diagnostic test battery which examined three receptive skills--attention to stimuli, discrimination, and memory--within three sensory modalities--auditory, visual, and auditory-visual. The control group consisted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Perception, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
The Relationship between Speech-Language Impairments and Reading Disabilities.
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Catts, Hugh W. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Fifty-six children with speech-language impairments were identified in kindergarten and followed in first and second grades. Subjects' performance on standardized measures of language ability in kindergarten was closely related to reading outcome, especially reading comprehension. Measures of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming…
Descriptors: Early Identification, Handicap Identification, Language Handicaps, Learning Disabilities
With a Critic's Eye: Helping Language/Learning-Disabled Kids Think about Their Thinking.
D'Alessandro, Marilyn – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1991
Describes the development of an approach to reading comprehension by teaching 9- and 10-year-old language-disabled and learning-disabled children to think about their thinking. The juxtaposition of reading books and watching videos of the same stories stimulates these children to process written information into a sequence that communicates…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Reading Disability: A Human Approach to Learning. Third Edition, Revised & Expanded.
Roswell, Florence G.; Natchez, Gladys – 1977
This book organizes the subject of reading disability under the following headings: basic considerations, diagnosis, and treatment. Chapters under the basic-considerations heading explore the causes and neurological and psychological bases of reading disability and psychotherapeutic principles in remedial reading instruction. Two chapters…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Handicaps