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Improving Social Interactions Between Learning Disabled Adolescents and Teachers: A Child Effects Approach
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)This study investigated whether LD adolescents could be taught to change their classroom behavior in ways that would effect how their teachers treated them and whether they could be taught to generalize positive changes ... -
Interactions Between Teachers and Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)A number of recent studies with learning disabled children have suggested that they may have poor social skills; however, research with LD adolescents in school settings has reported few differences in LD and non-LD ... -
A Comparison of Verbal Problem-Solving in Arithmetic of LD and Non-LD Seventh Grade Males
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)This study was conducted to determine if differences existed between a group of LD and a group of NLD students in their ability to solve verbal arithmetic problems. The sample consisted of 20 LD and 20 NLD seventh grade ... -
Teaching Job-Related Social Skills to Learning Disabled Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Previous research has indicated that LD adolescents perform poorly on a test of employment-related social skills (Mathews, Whang, & Fawcett, in press). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of training ... -
Teaching Job-Seeking Skills to Learning Disabled Adolescents: An Experimental Analysis and Social Validation
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Procedures designed to teach the skills involved in completing an employment application and resume writing were evaluated with three learning disabled adolescents using a multiple-baseline design. Training involved reading ... -
Production Deficiency vs. Processing Dysfunction: An Experimental Assessment
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)According to Torgesen (1977), LD students deficient performance is not reflective of cognitive processing deficits but of a production deficiency. The student is capable of satisfactory achievement, but does not achieve ... -
The Effect of Teaching Sixth Graders with Learning Difficulties a Strategy for Solving Verbal Math Problems
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)In this study, subjects were taught a seven-step verbal problem-solving strategy. Results indicated an increase in percent correct on eight mathematics word problems for each subject following intervention. Baseline probes ... -
Training Junior High School LD Students to Use a Test-Taking Strategy
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-06-01)This study investigated whether or not regular classroom test scores of LD junior-high school students could be improved by training those students to use a a test-taking strategy. Results showed significantly higher ... -
The Effects Self-Regulation Training on the Academic Productivity of LD and NLD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)A self-regulation package was used to teach serf-control skills to 8 LD and 2 NLD adolescents in an experimental high school setting. These procedures were taught and reinforced in a series of student-teacher conferences. ... -
Effects of Three Conferencing Procedures on the Academic Productivity of LD and NLD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)The effects of teacher and parent conferencing procedures on lesson completion by LD and NLD adolescents in a learning center were investigated. Following teacher conferences, students showed initial increases; however, ... -
A Comparison of Formal Features of Oral Language of Learning Disabled, Low-Achieving and Achieving Secondary Students
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-08-01)The oral language skills of 20 LD, 18 low-achieving, and 20 achieving students in grades 7 through 10 were analyzed using a one-minute audiotaped discussion of general information topics. Results indicated that differences ... -
A Comparison of Formal Features of Written Language of Learning Disabled, Low-Achieving and Achieving Secondary Students
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)The written language characteristics of 26 learning disabled (LD), 26 low-achieving (LA) and 26 achieving (ACH) students in grades 7 through 10 were measured using paragraph-writing and topic-sentence tasks. findings ... -
Multipass: A Learning Strategy for Improving Academic Performance of LD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Multipass, a complex learning strategy for gaining information from textbook chapters, was taught !9 eight learning disabled adolescents. Students learned the strategy following the institution of training and generalized ... -
Error Monitoring: A Learning Strategy for Improving Academic Performance of LD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Error monitoring, a learning strategy for detecting and correcting errors in written products, was taught to nine learning disabled adolescents. Students could detect and correct more errors after they received training ... -
Major Research Findings of The University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-10-01)This report presents abstracts of all research studies conducted during Years II and Ill of the University of Kansas LD Institute. Issues and assumptions addressed. major findings of completed studies, and implications are ... -
Application of a Social Skill and Problem-Solving Group Training Program to Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Youth
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-01-01)The efficacy of training social and problem-solving skills to learning disabled adolescents was evaluated by conducting a group skiff training program with three sets of youths: (a) LD adolescents attending an alternative ... -
A Comparison of Youths Who Have Committed Delinquent Acts with Learning Disabled, Low-Achieving, and Normally Achieving Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-12-01)This study compared a group of youths who had committed delinquent acts with LD, low-achieving, and normally-achieving adolescents. Youths who had committed delinquent acts most resembled the low-achieving group based on ... -
Parental and Staff Expectations for the Future Achievement of Learning Disabled Students
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-02-01)The results of this study indicated that: (a) the difference between the expectations of mothers and fathers of LD youth was generally insignificant in most areas of achievement, (b) in most areas of achievement, school ... -
A Comparison of Learning Disabled Adolescents with Specific Arithmetic and Reading Disabilities
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-01-01)Forty-three junior high learning disabilities programs were surveyed to identify students who were specifically disabled in either arithmetic or reading. The results indicated that students with a specific disability in ... -
Analysis of Cognitive Abilities of Adolescents Learning Disabled Specifically in Arithmetic Computation
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-01-01)This investigation identified a group of adolescents homogeneously defined as specifically learning disabled in arithmetic and examined whether cognitive processes measured by visual-spatial, visual-reasoning, and visual-memory ...