Strategic Development for Middle School Students Struggling With Fractions: Assessment and Intervention.

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：:This study examined the patterns of reading and spelling performance of first-grade Greek children who either were facing difficulties in literacy acquisition or were normal achievers. In addition, we studied the relationship between obtained literacy development levels and the children's phonological awareness and ab...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Porpodas CD

更新日期：1999-09-01 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 evaluated the hypothesis that poor readers are characterized by poor nonword reading skills, but that a specific deficit, as opposed to a developmental lag, in nonword reading will be found only in subjects whose reading is discrepant from intellectual ability. To test this hypothesis, we measured nonword r...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Felton RH,Wood FB

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined whether think-aloud procedures would uncover differences in the kinds of inferences generated by average and below-average readers. Participants were 40 third-grade children who were divided into groups of average and below-average readers. All participants completed measures of nonverbal IQ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Laing SP,Kamhi AG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents a longitudinal examination of the development of reading and reading-related skills of 22 Grade 4 children identified as having reading disabilities (RD) who had been followed since kindergarten. The analyses were conducted to investigate the patterns of emergence of RD as well as reading ability a...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Lipka O,Lesaux NK,Siegel LS

更新日期：2006-07-01 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

abstract：:This article explains how key principles of holistic constructivism were used to revise a graduate teacher education program and develop a portfolio model of evaluation. The program is built around individualized portfolios, applied projects, collaborative work, student evaluation, and professional presentation of stu...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Bacon EH,Bloom LA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers of mathematics learning disability (MLD) commonly use cutoff scores to determine which participants have MLD. Some researchers apply more restrictive cutoffs than others (e.g., performance below the 10th vs. below the 35th percentile). Different cutoffs may lead to groups of children that differ in their p...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Murphy MM,Mazzocco MM,Hanich LB,Early MC

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assisted and unassisted performance of 14 average readers (7 boys and 7 girls between 9.67 and 13 years of age) and 14 children with learning disabilities (10 boys and 4 girls between 10.8 and 13 years of age) were compared on a reading comprehension task--stating the main idea in expository paragraphs in which the to...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Day JD,Zajakowski A

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors, both of whom are involved in providing support services to university students with learning disabilities, describe some of the current issues and challenges faced by students, staff, and faculty. Programs and initiatives in some Canadian institutions that have proven to be successful are described, such ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Cox DH,Klas LD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable discussion has occurred about the most appropriate methods for diagnosing learning disabilities (LD) in postsecondary students. Two of the many areas of controversy that have emerged include the appropriate diagnostic criteria to use and the appropriate referent group. A review of previous court cases dem...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Giovingo LK,Proctor BE,Prevatt F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The British Psychological Society is the only national organization of psychologists within the United Kingdom representing all aspects of psychology and all subspecialisms within psychology. It is both a learned scientific society and a professional association. To address the concept of attention-deficit/hyperactivi...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Reason R,Working Party of the British Psychological Society.

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze whether children with and without difficulties in handwriting, spelling, or both differed in alphabet writing when using a keyboard. The total sample consisted of 1,333 children from Grades 1 through 3. Scores on the spelling and handwriting factors from the Early Grade Writing Ass...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Bisschop E,Morales C,Gil V,Jiménez-Suárez E

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we tested the outcomes of access to a response to intervention (RtI) model in kindergarten or in first grade on end-of-Grade-2 reading achievement and placement in special education. Across five schools, 214 students who began having access to Tier 2 intervention in kindergarten or first grade were comp...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： O'Connor RE,Bocian KM,Sanchez V,Beach KD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study addresses the distinction between specific (SLI) and nonspecific (NLI) language impairment at an etiological level by estimating the relative genetic and environmental contributions to language impairment in children with SLI and NLI. Drawing on a large longitudinal twin study, we tested a sample of ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hayiou-Thomas ME,Oliver B,Plomin R

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if an instruction designed to facilitate planning, given by teachers to their class as a group, would have differential effects depending on the specific Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive (PASS) cognitive characteristics of each child. A cognitive strategy instruc...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Naglieri JA,Johnson D

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:Does scotopic sensitivity correction enhance parsing and, thus, comprehension? Twenty-two readers with scotopic sensitivity (mean age = 20.3 yrs.; 40.9% male) parsed sentences under scotopic correction and control conditions. Measures included eye-movement indices of parsing and comprehension questions. Although eye m...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Fletcher J,Martinez G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the use of self-monitoring procedures to increase the number of daily homework assignments completed by eight students with learning disabilities. Students ranged in age from 13 to 16 years and attended Grades 7 through 10. The experimental procedure involved the use of a sheet listing all daily...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Trammel DL,Schloss PJ,Alper S

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although dyslexia runs in families, several putative risk factors that cannot be immediately identified as genetic predict reading disability. Published studies analyzed one or a few risk factors at a time, with relatively inconsistent results. To assess the contribution of several putative risk factors to the develop...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Mascheretti S,Marino C,Simone D,Quadrelli E,Riva V,Cellino MR,Maziade M,Brombin C,Battaglia M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated the stability of math learning difficulties over a 2-year period and investigated several factors that might influence this stability (categorical vs. continuous change, liberal vs. conservative cut point, broad vs. specific math assessment); the prediction of math performance over time and...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Martin RB,Cirino PT,Barnes MA,Ewing-Cobbs L,Fuchs LS,Stuebing KK,Fletcher JM

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Stimulant medications are widely used as part of the treatment for children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The current study investigated the effects of methylphenidate on auditory vigilance, auditory processing abilities, and receptive language abilities of children with ADHD. Twenty subjects (...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Keith RW,Engineer P

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:The experience of school-related stress during the transition to junior high school is compared in a sample of 59 students with learning disabilities (27 females, 32 males) and 402 students without learning disabilities (241 females, 161 males). Using a checklist of 11 stressful school events, the authors found that a...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Geisthardt C,Munsch J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is a growing body of information, materials, and instructional strategies for adults with learning disabilities receiving remedial reading instruction, the same is not available for other areas of Adult Basic Education, including remedial math, sixth-through eight-grade-level pre-GED basic skills, and s...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Westberry SJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the development of oral reading fluency in a sample of first-grade children. Using growth curve analysis, models of growth were identified for a combined sample of at-risk (AR) and not-at-risk (NAR) children, and predictors of growth were identified for the longitudinal AR samp...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Speece DL,Ritchey KD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two studies are reviewed that report the effects of social skills training and intervention with 572 children identified as learning disabled between 5 and 19 years of age. These studies are reviewed to examine characteristics and components of intervention effectiveness. Age and sex of subjects, grade grouping...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： McIntosh R,Vaughn S,Zaragoza N

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a teaching strategy designed to improve spelling accuracy in children with learning disabilities. The write-say method provides immediate feedback to dual sensory modalities (i.e., visual and auditory) following the administration of a daily spelling test. Four males and three females (mean age = 11.61 ye...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Kearney CA,Drabman RS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00