Assessing differences in children with learning disabilities and normally achieving students with a new measure of creativity.

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：:The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of video-based mathematics instruction for seven middle school students with specific learning disability (SLD), using an augmented reality-based training package. The dependent variable was the percentage of steps students performed correctly to solve each ty...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Kellems RO,Eichelberger C,Cacciatore G,Jensen M,Frazier B,Simons K,Zaru M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores the genesis and development of the Guckenberger v. Boston University case, detailing the pertinent facts and issues of the case and analyzing the court's decision. The overall question posed by the case (as considered from the perspective of the plaintiffs' attorneys) was whether Boston Universit...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Wolinsky S,Whelan A

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:The four studies of adult literacy in this special issue of the Journal of Learning Disabilities address measurement issues in adult populations and the relation (by comparison) of similar studies of childhood literacy. Despite differences in selection criteria, tests, and research questions, there is some convergence...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Fletcher JM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether the members of adolescents' peer groups are similar in reading and spelling disabilities and whether this similarity contributes to subsequent school achievement and educational attainment. The sample consisted of 375 Finnish adolescents whose reading and spelling disabilities we...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Kiuru N,Haverinen K,Salmela-Aro K,Nurmi JE,Savolainen H,Holopainen L

更新日期：2011-11-01 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 purpose of this qualitative multicase study was to explore the perceptions of individuals who could speak from both sides of the special education desk--as students and as teachers. The three participants for this study each received special education services for learning disabilities while in school and were cur...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Ferri BA,Keefe CH,Gregg N

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we consider issues relevant to the future of mathematics instruction and achievement for students with learning disabilities. The starting point for envisioning the future is the changing standards for mathematics learning and basic mathematical literacy. We argue that the shift from behaviorist learni...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Goldman SR,Hasselbring TS

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study presents data on the effectiveness of a parent-administered behavioral reading therapy program. Ten parents administered the therapy program to their second- to fourth-grade children with reading disability. All 10 children received 70 therapy sessions (30 minutes per session), with 5 of the 10 children rece...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Burns GL,Kondrick PA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests of a model of the expected relationships between language abilities and reading achievement measures from the beginning of kindergarten through third grade are discussed. At kindergarten, more global language abilities influenced early, wholistic measures of reading achievement, including letter and number namin...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Sawyer DJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the usefulness and predictive validity of a dynamic screening of phonological awareness in two samples of kindergarten children. In one sample (n = 90), the predictive validity of the dynamic assessment was compared to a static version of the same screening measure. In the second sample (n = 96), t...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Sittner Bridges M,Catts HW

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:The field of learning disabilities, like education in the main, is undergoing calls for reform and restructuring, an upheaval brought on in great part by the forces of opposing paradigms--reductionism and constructivism. In reexamining our past, we must begin to address the failures of traditional deficit models and t...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hearne D,Stone S

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:This article reviews the ways that computers can support writing by students with learning disabilities, with an emphasis applications that go beyond word processing. Following an overview of research on word processing is a discussion of software assists with the basic processes of transcription and sentence generati...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： MacArthur CA

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：: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：:Students with learning disabilities have received services in special education programs for many years. Unfortunately, many of these students continue to need services after they exit high schools. Vocational rehabilitation has begun to provide services for young adults with learning disabilities; however, there cont...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Dowdy CA,Smith TE,Nowell CH

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:Deficits in phonological processing are theorized to be responsible for at least some reading disabilities. A considerable amount of research demonstrates that many students can be taught one of these phonological processes-phonemic awareness. However, not all students have responded favorably to this instruction. Res...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Allor JH,Fuchs D,Mathes PG

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Text-to-speech and related read-aloud tools are being widely implemented in an attempt to assist students' reading comprehension skills. Read-aloud software, including text-to-speech, is used to translate written text into spoken text, enabling one to listen to written text while reading along. It is not clear how eff...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Wood SG,Moxley JH,Tighe EL,Wagner RK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition of adults with learning disabilities to successful employment is contingent upon numerous factors. Eighty-six adults (55 males and 31 females), 18 to 59 years old (mean age 26.7 years), with learning disabilities were evaluated clinically using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) (Wec...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Faas LA,D'Alonzo BJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 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

abstract：:Experiencing a brain injury is a traumatic event not only for the child who is directly affected, but also for his or her family system. Recently, attention has turned toward the potentially deleterious effects of having a child with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) on parents, siblings, and extended family members. Spe...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Conoley JC,Sheridan SM

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Self-perceptions of teacher feedback, social comparison of reading competence, reading satisfaction, and general self-worth were assessed among third and sixth graders with learning disabilities and normal achievement (n = 247). Relations among these variables and mean differences were examined within the and across g...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Bear GG,Minke KM,Griffin SM,Deemer SA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few tests that assess reading comprehension in adults, but these tests are needed for a comprehensive assessment of reading disorders (RD). The Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT) has a long-passage reading comprehension component that can be used with adolescents and adults. A problem with the NDRT is that rea...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Ready RE,Chaudhry MF,Schatz KC,Strazzullo S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00