"Passageless" administration of the Nelson-Denny Reading Comprehension Test: associations with IQ and reading skills.

abstract：:In this quasi-experimental study, which is part of a series of investigations on supplemental reading tutoring variations, the relative effectiveness of more intense decoding instruction or text reading practice was examined. Fifty-seven first-grade students scoring in the lowest quartile for reading skills received e...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Vadasy PF,Sanders EA,Peyton JA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred graduates with learning disabilities (LD) from three universities in the United States completed a survey related to their postschool employment outcomes and experiences. The present study presents data related to their decisions regarding LD disclosure in employment settings. Although 73% of the responde...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Madaus JW

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of high-stakes tests from elementary school through postsecondary education include the timed impromptu essay as a measure of writing performance. For adolescents with writing disorders, this type of evaluation often presents a significant barrier. The purpose of the current study was twofold. First, we i...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Gregg N,Coleman C,Davis M,Chalk JC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental results suggest that negation is particularly challenging for children with reading difficulties. This study looks at how young poor readers, speakers of Mandarin Chinese, comprehend affirmative and negative sentences as compared with a group of age-matched typical readers. Forty-four Chinese child...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hu S,Vender M,Fiorin G,Delfitto D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Links between teachers' pedagogical beliefs and teaching practices were investigated with respect to process writing instruction. Participants included 5 teachers, 44 general education students, and 23 special education students in 2 elementary multi-age inclusion classrooms. Findings suggested that, although the teac...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Berry RA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hospital-reported incidence of mild head injury among children indicates a prevalence of 2% to 3% in high-school-aged adolescents (14 to 18 years). Yet, our survey of 616 high school adolescents suggests that light and mild head injury (not necessarily leading to hospital admission) is almost 10 times this level. ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Segalowitz SJ,Brown D

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Last semester, while concluding an autobiography for a class assignment, the author came to the realization that being a person with a learning disability constitutes a strong connection to people of other minority groups. This article will develop that theme, searching relevant issues through applied sociological pri...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Coughlin D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained and selective attention of 30 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students with learning disabilities (LD) and 20 controls were compared. A continuous performance test (CPT) yielded no differences for students with LD and controls, suggesting similar ability for both groups in sustaining attention and inhibitin...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Richards GP,Samuels SJ,Turnure JE,Ysseldyke JE

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gersten, Jordan, and Flojo (in this issue) provide the beginnings of an essential bridge between basic research on mathematical disabilities (MD) in young children and the application of this research for the early identification and remediation of these forms of learning disability. As they acknowledge, the field of ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Geary DC

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used a large data set (N = 1,011,549) to examine literacy growth over a single school year comparing general education (GenEd) students to three high-risk subgroups: English language learners (ELL), those with a specific learning disability (LD), and those identified as both LD and ELL (LD-ELL) in students...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Solari EJ,Petscher Y,Folsom JS

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the relative influence on children's self-esteem of academic achievement, maternal self-esteem, maternal acceptance, and children's perception of their parents' acceptance of them. Subjects were students with learning disabilities in a self-contained class (n=31), similarly diagnosed students in re...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Morvitz E,Motta RW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article synthesizes the literature comparing at-risk children designated as responders and low responders to interventions in reading. The central question addressed in this review is whether individual differences in reading-related skills at pretest predict responders at posttest across a variety of interventio...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Tran L,Sanchez T,Arellano B,Lee Swanson H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates two group-administered tests of phoneme awareness, a phoneme segmentation test and an invented spelling test. Each was given to 100 kindergarten children (48 female, 52 male), along with two tests of visual-motor ability. One year later the same children received standardized reading tests and ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Mann VA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that learning disabilities (LD) persist into the adult years, yet despite a developing literature base in this area, there is a paucity of evidence-based research to guide research and practice. Consistent with the demands of the adult stage of development, autonomy and self-determination ar...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Gerber PJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:German practices in the field of learning disabilities beyond preschool level are described in the context of their historical formation. In a historical perspective it becomes obvious that the German notion of Lernbehinderung, although being just a translation of "learning disabilities," differs markedly from the Ame...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Opp G

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In part because learning strategies are often taught in isolated resource settings outside of the contexts in which students with learning disabilities are expected to apply this knowledge, generalization has been a significant challenge to educators. To address this problem, an instructional model is proposed for int...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Ellis ES

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents with and without learning disabilities (14, 16, and 18 years old) were tested to determine whether they differed in auditory, visual, and/or multisensory (combined auditory/visual) social perception abilities. Differences between the two groups in growth of auditory, visual, and multisensory social-percept...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Sisterhen DH,Gerber PJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has raised the question of whether age- and IQ-discrepancy forms of reading disability (RD) are distinguishable in terms of either their underlying linguistic deficit or their response to treatment, thus threatening the external validity of the traditional distinction between specific reading retardati...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Pennington BF,Gilger JW,Olson RK,DeFries JC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a large (N = 182) heterogeneous sample of clinic-referred children with DSM-III-diagnosed attention deficit disorder (ADD), three behavioral subgroups were identified via cluster analysis of teacher ratings: 40% of the children had ADD with hyperactivity (ADDH), 30% had ADD with hyperactivity and aggressivity (...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Dykman RA,Ackerman PT

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of a peer teaching procedure, combined with student letter-writing activities, on the acquisition and generalization of capitalization skills. Three students, aged 9 years, obtained instruction from peer partners that included (a) an introduction and review of capitalization rules, ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Campbell BJ,Brady MP,Linehan S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of visual and auditory coding processes in students with learning disabilities (SLDs) and student controls (SCs) was examined with a letter-matching task on four types of successively presented letter pairs: identical (A,A), visually confusable (P,R), auditorily confusable (F,S), and neither visually nor au...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hardy BW,McIntyre CW,Brown AS,North AJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive use of approximate calculation was examined using a verification task with 18 third graders with mathematics learning disabilities, 22 typically achieving third graders, and 21 typically achieving second graders. Participants were asked to make true-false decisions on simple and complex addition problems ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Rousselle L,Noël MP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an item response theory (IRT) measurement model to examine the 28-item Conners Teacher's Rating Scale (CTRS) for the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Using an Israeli sample of 453 pairs of respondents (parents and teachers), we broke down our sample into nonclinical (n = 306) and ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Gumpel T,Wilson M,Shalev R

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extant literature on the social functioning of students with learning disabilities (LD) has indicated that whereas a majority belong to peer groups, a higher proportion are isolated and most have lower social status among peers in general than their typically achieving classmates. Although some work has examined t...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Estell DB,Jones MH,Pearl R,Van Acker R,Farmer TW,Rodkin PC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to assess whether the effects of computer-assisted practice on visual word recognition differed for children with reading disabilities (RD) with or without aptitude-achievement discrepancy. A sample of 73 Spanish children with low reading performance was selected using the discrepancy method, b...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Jiménez JE,del Rosario Ortiz M,Rodrigo M,Hernández-Valle I,Ramírez G,Estévez A,O'Shanahan I,de la Luz Trabaue M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficacy of a brief cognitive-affective intervention to enhance motivational readiness for participating in a psychoeducational decision-making conference was explored. Although outcomes specific to the preconference intervention were not found, findings of relevance to the hypothesized positive relationship between m...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Adelman HS,MacDonald VM,Nelson P,Smith DC,Taylor L

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to understand and produce coherent text structure was assessed across three groups of college writers, normally achieving, learning disabled, and underprepared. It was found that college writers with learning disabilities were more like the normally achieving writers on an assessment of comprehension of te...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Gregg N,Hoy C

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines visual and spatial working memory skills in 35 third to fifth graders with both mathematics learning disabilities (MLD) and poor problem-solving skills and 35 of their peers with typical development (TD) on tasks involving both low and high attentional control. Results revealed that children with M...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Passolunghi MC,Mammarella IC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines faculty and student perceptions regarding university students with learning disabilities, sensitivity to such students' special needs, accommodations, and the perceived impact of a learning disability. Results reveal a general sensitivity to the special needs of students with learning disabilities;...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Houck CK,Asselin SB,Troutman GC,Arrington JM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response-to-intervention (RTI) approaches to disability identification are meant to put an end to the so-called wait-to-fail requirement associated with IQ discrepancy. However, in an unfortunate irony, there is a group of children who wait to fail in RTI frameworks. That is, they must fail both general classroom inst...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Compton DL,Gilbert JK,Jenkins JR,Fuchs D,Fuchs LS,Cho E,Barquero LA,Bouton B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00