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Peer reviewedWaldron, Karen A.; Saphire, Diane G. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
Twenty-four gifted children with learning disabilities and a control group of nondisabled gifted children were administered the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. The 8- to 12-year-old subjects were found to be more reliant on verbal conceptualization and reasoning than controls and demonstrated deficiencies in short-term auditory…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education
Download full textFrager, Alan M. – 1979
Well-known questioning strategies, built on question classification systems, are examined. Types of question classification systems are identified as: "hierarchical," which are sequential and cumulative; "non-hierarchical," which are based on elements which should not be rank ordered; systems which are "context-bound" to specifics; and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Objectives, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Telzrow, Cathy F.; Speer, Barbara – Techniques, 1986
Effective intervention strategies for learning disabled students should recognize such cognitive deficiencies as weaknesses in attention, memory deficits, and problems in generalizing and abstracting information. Approaches which emphasize enhanced learning processes include: self-monitoring; repetition and deliberate instruction in control…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Generalization
