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Putting Memory To Work in Language Intervention: Implications for Practitioners.
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Gillam, Ronald B. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1997
Summarizes findings on the relationship of working memory and long-term memory to language impairments. Language interventions are discussed, including promoting attention, speaking clearly and slowly, promoting phonological coding, planning activities around topics familiar to the learners, helping learners organize new knowledge, and providing…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Children, Encoding (Psychology), Intervention
Temperament and Elementary School Children's Actual and Rated Academic Performance: A Test of a "Goodness-of-Fit" Model.
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Lerner, Jacqueline V.; And Others – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1985
Studies fourth grade students to test a goodness-of-fit model of temperament. Children responded to the Dimensions of Temperament Survey (DOTS). Teachers specified demands/expectations for their students for each of the DOTS attributes and rated students' academic ability and adjustment. Objective measures of academic achievement were also…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Attention Span
Cognitive Assessment System.
Naglieri, Jack A.; Das, J. P. – 1997
This kit contains materials necessary to administer the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS), an assessment battery designed to evaluate cognitive processing in children 5 through 17 years of age. Derived from the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive (PASS) theory, the four processing areas comprise the four scales that make up the CAS.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Span, Children, Cognitive Ability