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Peer reviewedCaccamise, Frank; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1977
Descriptors: Educational Media, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education
Download full textGargiulo, Richard Michael – 1974
Examined were the effects of verbal labels alone and in combination with two types of instruction on the concept attainment of 80 educable mentally retarded and 80 normal boys of school age matched for mental age. For learning the concept "equilateral triangle" Ss were randomly assigned to one of four experimental treatment conditions: verbal…
Descriptors: Age, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedMansdorf, Irwin J. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1977
Descriptors: Adults, Concept Teaching, Exceptional Child Research, Generalization
Hillman, Stephen B. – 1972
Examined were the effects of memory and inference questions on learning in 90 educable mentally retarded children (aged 9 to 13 years) who were read a short story, each section of which was preceded or followed by a training question which cued relevant information. Results indicated that those questions which followed the presentation of sections…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Inquiry, Learning Processes, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedBrice-Gray, Kathleen J.; Fink, William T. – Mental Retardation, 1979
Ten moderately and severely handicapped preschool children served as Ss in a pre-post-test design to evaluate the effects of cumulative and successive pairs programing strategies. (Author)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Kampwirth, Thomas J.; Bates, Marion – Academic Therapy, 1980
The article reviews 22 studies concerned with learning disabled children under 10 years old in which there was a clear attempt to compare auditory and visual modality preferenes to visual and/or auditory methods of teaching words or other written verbal symbols. (PHR)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Neisworth, John T.; And Others – 1968
Two introductory passages, one regular passage, and one experimental advance organizer passage developed to facilitate initial learning were assigned to normal and retarded children. The subjects were 184 normal 8-year-olds (controls' mean IQ 118.00, organizers' 118.80) and 184 educable mentally retarded 15-year-olds (EMR controls' mean IQ 74.85,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences
Evans, Ross A. – 1969
The study investigated the effects of reading level and stimulus presentation mode on the associative clustering and recall performance of mentally retarded adolescents. The subjects were administered a randomized list of twenty words from four conceptual categories. For each of four trials, these words were presented via the auditory, visual or…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes
Kratochwill, Thomas R.; Severson, Roger A. – 1974
Discussed in a paper which was presented at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association are diagnostic procedures for instructional planning to be used with learning disabled elementary school children handicapped in the area of mathematics. Traditional diagnostic approaches such as intelligence tests are criticized.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Conceptual Schemes, Diagnostic Teaching, Dyscalculia
Fleischner, Jeannette, Ed. – Forum, 1980
Eight articles report on findings of the five Research Institutes in Learning Disabilities. T. Bryan reports on "The Chicago Institute for Learning Disabilities" with findings concerning children's conversational skills, how children account for success and failure, children's ingratiation tactics, children who forget quickly, and children's…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Kenney, Helen J.; And Others – 1966
To serve emotionally disturbed adolescents in a residential treatment program, an educational cadre was formed to function as a diagnostic, teaching, and research instrument. Specialists in addition to classroom teachers included a curriculum specialist, a cognitive psychologist, and a psychiatric clinician. Experimental curriculum units in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Programs, Emotional Disturbances, English
