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Cummins, Robert A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This study reexamines factor analyses from which A. J. Ayres claimed to have identified perceptual-motor factors found in the scores of children with learning disabilities but not normally learning children. The reappraisal finds no support for the claim, and as a result, no support for derived diagnostic procedures or remedial programs.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Factor Analysis, Handicap Identification
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Lane, G. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
Comparison of two strategies--manual guidance only and manual guidance plus verbal prompts--with 6 students (ages 9 to 19) whose multiple disabilities included total blindness and severe mental retardation found that prompting methods that require shifting verbal information to the performance of a manual task may interfere with the learning of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Children, Cues
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Brown, Josephine V.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates developmental changes in the accuracy of aimed movements made to an illuminated target lamp by children between the ages of 1.5 and 8 years. Shows accuracy decreased with decreasing availability of visual information and improved with age under all conditions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Motion, Motor Reactions