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Effects of Learning Goal Attainability Level, Text Organization, and Age Level on Learning Disabled Adolescents' Silent Reading Comprehension.
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Lindsey, Jimmy D. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1983
Results indicated that attainability levels of learning goals affected the students' reading comprehension. LD adolescents had significantly higher comprehension when assessed on information associated with a learning goal completely attainable than on information associated with a partially attainable learning goal. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Depression and Cognitive Self-Statements of Learning Disabled and Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents.
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Maag, John W.; Behrens, John T. – Journal of Special Education, 1989
A study of 465 junior/senior high-school learning-disabled (LD) and seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) adolescents found that 21 percent experienced severe depressive symptomatology, with no severity differences exhibited between LD and SED students. Senior high females exhibited a more negative cognitive style than their male peers.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Depression (Psychology)
Examination of Problem Solving in Learning Disabled Adolescents through Verbalized Self-Instructions.
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Havertape, John F.; Kass, Corrine E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Age Differences, Comprehension, Learning Disabilities
BEH Final Regulations for Learning Disabilities: Implications for the Secondary School.
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Goodman, Libby; Price, Marianne – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
The regulations implementing Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) raise several concerns about their implications for the learning disabled secondary student. (PHR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
Effect of Direction, Text Organization, and Age Level on Reading Comprehension.
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Lindsey, Jimmy D. – Reading Improvement, 1980
Concludes that teacher guidance affects learning disabled students' recall and comprehension of goal-relevant information but that neither text organization nor age level is associated with degree of recall and comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discourse Analysis, Learning Disabilities, Readability
An Epidemiological Study of Learning Disabled Adolescents in Secondary Schools: Achievement and Ability, Socioeconomic Status, and School Experiences.
Warner, Michael M.; And Others – 1980
The second in a series of papers on a study of the environmental setting of learning disabled (LD) adolescents and young adults reports research on cognitive and academic functioning of 234 LD, 162 low achieving (LA), and 215 normally achieving (NA) secondary students and on socioeconomic status and school experiences. Data were obtained from Ss…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Educational Experience
Assessment and Remediation of Complex Reasoning in Specific Subgroups of Learning Disabled Adolescents. Final Report.
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Stone, C. Addison; And Others – 1984
The study is described which examined quantitative and qualitative differences among learning disabled (LD) subgroups and between LD and normal Ss in reasoning and problem solving behaviors. The research strategy involved (1) detailed analyses of the behavior of subgroups of LD adolescents and of matched normal achieving adolescents in a task…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes
Epidemiologic Data on Seriously Emotionally Disturbed and Learning Disabled Adolescents: Reporting Extreme Depressive Symptomatology.
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Maag, John W.; Behrens, John T. – Behavioral Disorders, 1989
The study examined the relationship between extreme levels of depressive symptomatology and age, gender, and placement label among 465 secondary-level students in special education resource programs for the seriously emotionally disturbed and learning disabled. Gender was the only significant predictor of severe depressive symptomatology, with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances, Incidence
Comparison of Teacher-Rated Achievement Levels of Behaviorally Disordered, Learning Disabled, and Nonhandicapped Adolescents.
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Luebke, Jerry; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1989
Teacher ratings on reading recognition, reading comprehension, arithmetic, and written expression revealed that behaviorally disordered and learning-disabled adolescents (N=200) were seen as performing significantly below expected levels of achievement. Differences between behaviorally disordered and learning-disabled students appeared to depend…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Rating Scales
Chemical Dependency in Students with and without Learning Disabilities.
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Karacostas, Demetra D.; Fisher, Gary L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
Secondary students (88 with learning disabilities and 103 without) completed a substance abuse screening inventory. Of the 30 students who were classified as chemically dependent, 70% were students with learning disabilities. The presence or absence of a learning disability was a better predictor of chemical dependency than gender, ethnicity, age,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Drug Addiction, Ethnic Groups, Family (Sociological Unit)