Fable comprehension by children with learning disabilities.

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：: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：:There has been considerable discussion of the methods used for the identification of children with reading disabilities. This study examined three different methods that could be used in the identification of children with reading disabilities and their consistency with teacher ratings of behaviors believed to be asso...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Sofie CA,Riccio CA

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：: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：:Currently, educators separate out from typical students those whose learning needs vary from the norm. The norming and sorting process may earmark students as "different" without providing markedly unique instruction and without producing robust academic outcomes. An alternative to fragmentation for some students is t...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Tomlinson CA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addressed the issue as to whether children reliably diagnosed as attention deficit disordered with hyperactivity (ADD/H) and without hyperactivity (ADD/WO) differed significantly from each other and a clinic control (CC) population on speed and efficiency of cognitive processing. From an outpatient clinic p...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hynd GW,Nieves N,Connor RT,Stone P,Town P,Becker MG,Lahey BB,Lorys AR

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：: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：:A study of the perceived importance of 23 occupations by 65 adolescents with learning disabilities and 85 adolescents without learning disabilities revealed that occupations were ranked similarly by the two groups (Rho = .76). Analysis of the groups' rank order indicated diversity of students' perceptions about the im...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Plata M,Bone J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic and environmental etiologies of 3 aspects of low mathematical performance (math disability) and the full range of variability (math ability) were compared for boys and girls in a sample of 5,348 children age 10 years (members of 2,674 pairs of same-sex and opposite-sex twins) from the United Kingdom (UK). ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Kovas Y,Haworth CM,Petrill SA,Plomin R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the development of phonological and reading skills in 171 students (98 males, 73 females) from the beginning of first grade (Time 1) to the end of second grade (Time 4). Based on their reading and intelligence scores at the end of second grade, these students were placed into nondisabled (ND...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hurford DP,Schauf JD,Bunce L,Blaich T,Moore K

更新日期：1994-06-01 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 final session of the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) Responsiveness-to-Intervention (RTI) Symposium, "What are alternative models to LD identification other than RTI?" included four papers that discussed concerns over the exclusive reliance on an RTI approach to learning disability identi...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Johnson E,Mellard DF,Byrd SE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A teacher describes a secondary English unit on Shakespeare implemented in a manner designed to take advantage of the learning differences of resource room students. After developing and investigating questions relating to Macbeth, students then read and enjoyed the drama. As a result of acquiring an understanding of ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Thorson S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of research that uses behavioral, electroencephalographic, and/or magnetoencephalographic methods to investigate auditory processing deficits in individuals with dyslexia is presented. Findings show that measures of frequency, rise time, and duration discrimination as well as amplitude modulation and frequenc...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hämäläinen JA,Salminen HK,Leppänen PH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achievement and cognitive tests are used extensively in the diagnosis and educational placement of children with reading disabilities (RD). Moreover, research on scholastic interventions often requires repeat testing and information on practice effects. Little is known, however, about the test-retest and other psychom...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Cirino PT,Rashid FL,Sevcik RA,Lovett MW,Frijters JC,Wolf M,Morris RD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the nature of whole-class discussion and teachers' instruction during discussion about historical topics in one inclusive, middle-grade classroom. We videotaped and analyzed 4 lessons to determine the nature of discussion sequences, rates of participation, and instructional challenges encoun...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Okolo CM,Ferretti RP,MacArthur CA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visuospatial working memory and its involvement in arithmetic were examined in two groups of 7- to 11-year-olds: one comprising children described by teachers as displaying symptoms of nonverbal learning difficulties (N = 21), the other a control group without learning disabilities (N = 21). The two groups were matche...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Mammarella IC,Lucangeli D,Cornoldi C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the executive functioning of 55 elementary school children with and without problems in written expression. Two groups reflecting children with and without significant writing problems were defined by an average primary trait rating across two separate narratives. The groups did not differ in terms...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hooper SR,Swartz CW,Wakely MB,de Kruif RE,Montgomery JW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents an international perspective of the proposed changes to the DSM-5 for learning disabilities (LD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) across ten countries: Australia, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We provide perspe...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Al-Yagon M,Cavendish W,Cornoldi C,Fawcett AJ,Grünke M,Hung LY,Jiménez JE,Karande S,van Kraayenoord CE,Lucangeli D,Margalit M,Montague M,Sholapurwala R,Sideridis G,Tressoldi PE,Vio C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has suggested that different strategies used when solving fraction problems are highly correlated with students' problem-solving accuracy. This study (a) utilized latent profile modeling to classify students into three different strategic developmental levels in solving fraction comparison problems and (b) ac...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Zhang D,Stecker P,Huckabee S,Miller R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty children (7 to 11 years old) referred for evaluation of learning problems, who had scores within the normal range on standardized measures of academic achievement, were compared to 81 similarly referred children who had scored low (< 90) on at least one measure of academic achievement. We tested the hypothesis t...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Morgan AE,Singer-Harris N,Bernstein JH,Waber DP

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：: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：: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 goal of the current study was to compare two forms of dynamic assessment and standard assessment of preschool children's phonological awareness. The first form of dynamic assessment was a form of scaffolding in which item formats were modified in response to an error so as to make the task easier or more explicit....

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Thatcher Kantor P,Wagner RK,Torgesen JK,Rashotte CA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article by Speece (in this issue) underscores the disappointing accuracy results of early screening for reading difficulties and argues that development conceptualized as rate of learning matters. We respond by emphasizing three points. First, the purpose of early screening could be identifying students not at ris...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Foorman BR,Ciancio DJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：: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