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Peer reviewedBryant, Susan K.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
A span-of-apprehension task and a backward masking technique were combined to allow measurement of the apprehension span of a sample of 34 learning disabled and normal boys about 8 to 13 years old at various time intervals following stimulus presentation. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Attention, Learning Disabilities, Reaction Time, Time Factors (Learning)
Peer reviewedBraggio, John T.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1980
Letter pairs that could not be distinguished by learning disabled children were presented using an acquisition-reversal learning paradigm. Relevant external stimuli facilitated discrimination; in reversal, the cues were irrelevant. This technique facilitated learning, as well as retention four days later. (Attentional deficits are discussed). (GDC)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cues, Dyslexia, Intermediate Grades
Download full textStark, Joel – 1967
Three projects were designed to develop and evaluate materials for use with aphasic children (perceptually handicapped with language problems). The first project presented stimulus pairs in varying modality conditions. Results suggested that, although the aphasic children were not capable of improving their auditory discrimination performance,…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Audiovisual Instruction, Auditory Discrimination, Discrimination Learning
