Phonotactic patterns of seven 11-15-year-old Kannada speaking children with Down syndrome (DS), mental age matched children with mental retardation (MR) without DS and six 4-5-year-old typically developing (TD) children were investigated. Conversational speech analyses and target analyses of conversational speech were carried out in all three…

Among the many methods of teaching skills to parents of disruptive children, videotape modeling of specific parent-child interaction sequences has been particularly effective. Given the likelihood of timeout resistance in defiant children, the authors tested the effectiveness of videotape parent training with a sample of clinic referred,…

Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important part in second language learning, especially at intermediate-advanced levels, learners' difficulties with collocations have not been investigated in much detail so far. The present study examines ESL learners' use of verb-noun collocations, such as "take notes," "place an…

This paper examines some of the problems faced by deaf children when attempting to spell the words of written English. It analyses deaf children's awareness of English spelling patterns and considers whether there are spelling errors which are common to these children. Twenty-two children with varying degrees of hearing level were involved and…

A new Microsoft Excel spreadsheet design that enables a prompt calculation of rate constant, k values and associated errors and also addresses less common features such as the choice of an experimental curve's extent is presented. To complete the spreadsheet design, several highlights and squared colored boxes were included to assist the user and…

This report examines the causes of error in two techniques for measuring eye fixation position. Theoretical calculations of the magnitude of sources of error are shown to produce good agreement with empirically derived magnitudes for adult and neonate eyes.

Spelling error analysis performed on 27 dyslexic fourth to eighth graders and 27 normal second graders revealed no significant differences in phonetic accuracy, level of maturity, or incidence of serial order confusion. Findings did not support prevailing approaches characterizing dyslexic students as phonetically inaccurate spellers. (CL)

Describes system design proposed by the Spelling Error Detection Correction Project (SPEEDCOP) at Chemical Abstracts Service. Highlights include principles of detection/correction system; spelling error detection (the dictionary, suffix normalization, bypassing specialized word classes, document-level frequency threshold); spelling error…

Iterative Intercolumnar Correlation Classification (IICC) computes the correlation coefficients for the entries of every column of a matrix with those of every other column of the matrix. Iteration increases the size and validity of the object indices, reduces error in the indices, and increases homogeneity amongst them. (Author/BW)

The article presents techniques for error analysis and correction for use with handicapped children. Considered are error and trend analysis, corrective feedback, graduated guidance hierarchy, errors as part of the learning process, the teacher's verbal correction, and oral reading correction procedurs. (DB)

Conducted study to examine whether practitioners err in administering and scoring Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Obtained WAIS-R protocols from 50 randomly selected psychological folders in records of 1 school district. Found that practitioners committed errors on all 50 protocols. Errors on 27 of 50 protocols were sufficient…

Two experiments used error-detection to determine the reason for 3-year olds' perseverative errors on the postswitch phase of the Dimensional Change Card Sort. Results implied that perseveration cannot be attributed to difficulty inhibiting prepotent motor responses, but that changes in rule use between 3 and 5 years are more likely to increase…

In 2 experiments, participants used a keyboard to enter 4-digit numbers presented on a computer monitor under conditions promoting fatigue. In Experiment 1, accuracy of data entry declined but response times improved over time, reflecting an increasing speed-accuracy trade-off. In Experiment 2, the (largely cognitive) time to enter the initial…

Deep dyslexia is an acquired reading disorder that involves the production of semantic errors and the inability to read aloud nonwords successfully. Several explanations for this reading impairment posit multiple loci of damage to account for the various error types produced in deep dyslexia. In contrast, the failure of inhibition hypothesis…