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Lampe, John M. – 1968
Because of the increasing use of color in instructional materials at the level of the primary grades, the Health Service Department of the Denver Public Schools became interested in investigating the color vision of 5- and 6-year-olds. A project was established to create color-vision testing methods and to use those methods to ascertain incidence…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Learning Disabilities, Perception Tests
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Donovan, G.; Mitchell, M. M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
Twenty-eight kindergarten children (5-6 years old) were tested in order to identify children with learning disabilities and to compare tests results. (Author)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Learning Disabilities, Memory
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Cornoldi, Cesare; Venneri, Annalena; Marconato, Fabio; Molin, Adriana; Montinari, Cinzia – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
An 18-item "Shortened Visuospatial Questionnaire" (SVS) was validated twice, first by verifying that children (ages 8-13) identified with the SVS questionnaire as having visuospatial learning disability (VSLD) (n=54) actually showed visuospatial deficits on psychometric evaluation, and second, by rating with the SVS a clinically identified…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Questionnaires
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Rubino, Carl A.; Minden, Harold A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Grade 5, Learning Disabilities, Light, Measurement Instruments
Aliotti, Nicholas C. – Academic Therapy, 1980
Young children (153 normal preschool and primary graders, 19 cerebral palsied 5 to 15 year olds, and 16 learning disabled 7 to 12 year olds) were given a test of immediate visual memory which required selection of a geometric design from among six alternatives, including a mirror image and a rotation. (CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Elementary Education, Error Patterns, Exceptional Child Research
Oxford, Rebecca L. – 1978
Frequently a variety of visual perception difficulties correlate with reading disabilities. A study was made to investigate the relationship between visual perception and reading disability in families, and to explore the genetic aspects of the relationship. One-hundred twenty-five reading-disabled students, ages 7.5 to 12 years, were matched with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics, Learning Disabilities
Hendrickson, Homer – Academic Therapy, 1988
Spelling problems arise due to problems with form discrimination and inadequate visualization. A child's sequence of visual development involves learning motor control and coordination, with vision directing and monitoring the movements; learning visual comparison of size, shape, directionality, and solidity; developing visual memory or recall;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Bornstein, Joan L. – 1980
The booklet outlines ways to help children with learning disabilities in specific subject areas. Characteristic behavior and remedial exercises are listed for seven areas of auditory problems: auditory reception, auditory association, auditory discrimination, auditory figure ground, auditory closure and sound blending, auditory memory, and grammar…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Aural Learning
McGrady, Harold J.; Olson, Don A. – 1967
To describe and compare the psychosensory functioning of normal children and children with specific learning disabilities, 62 learning disabled and 68 normal children were studied. Each child was given a battery of thirteen subtests on an automated psychosensory system representing various combinations of auditory and visual intra- and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Exceptional Child Research
Fisher, Dennis F. – 1976
Some basic pattern-analyzing functions that occur during the reading process are described in this paper. The functions deal mainly with the analysis of typographical factors such as word shape, spacing, and orientation, but they also interact with contextual variables. The research interpreted in the paper proposes an attentional model of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Eye Movements
Simpson, Dorothy M. – 1968
The author gives an account of her early teaching experiences, her awareness that many children did not learn to read, her early investigations of readiness, and her conclusions that difficulty in numbers, copying, or tracing were closely related to reading disability. The importance of visual perception, eye motility, early child development, and…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Eye Movements
Washington County Public Schools, Washington, PA. – 1968
Symptoms displayed by primary age children with learning disabilities are listed; perceptual handicaps are explained. Activities are suggested for developing visual perception and perception involving motor activities. Also suggested are activities to develop body concept, visual discrimination and attentiveness, visual memory, and figure ground…
Descriptors: Body Image, Educational Games, Exceptional Child Education, Identification
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Egeland, Byron; And Others – 1976
Thirty-five second-grade learning disabled children participated in a visual information processing training program designed to teach analysis of visual material into component parts, systematic scanning of visual arrays, pick-up, description, and memory storage of distinctive information, and efficient solution of visual match-to-sample…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes