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Differences between Mentally Retarded and Nonretarded Persons' Efficiency of Auditory Sentence Processing.
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Merrill, Edward C.; Mar, Harvey H. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1987
Mildly mentally retarded adolescents (N=14) and mental age-matched nonretarded children participated in three experiments examining language processing efficiency. Results suggested that the retarded and nonretarded differ in the speed with which the semantic-analytic processes are executed but not necessarily the phonological encoding processes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Perception, Comprehension, Language Acquisition
A Comparison of Psychometric Functions for Detection in Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners.
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Arehart, Kathryn Hoberg; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1990
Psychometric functions (PFD) for the detection of pure tones were obtained from 10 adolescent and young adult listeners with normal hearing and 10 adult listeners with sensorineural impairments of presumed cochlear origin. The slopes of the PFDs were abnormally steep in some of the hearing-impaired listeners but were statistically significant only…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception
Auditory, Visual, and Auditory-Visual Perception of Emotions by Adolescents with and without Learning Disabilities, and Their Relationship to Social Skills.
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Most, Tova; Greenbank, Alicia – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2000
This study investigated the perception of emotions and the social skills of 60 eighth-graders, half with and half without learning disabilities (LD). Results indicated that the performance of LD adolescents was significantly poorer than peers in the perception of emotion via either auditory, visual, or combined auditory-visual modes. Although both…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Perception, Comprehension, Emotional Response
Convergent-Discriminant Validity of the Jewish Employment Vocational System (JEVS).
Tryjankowski, Elaine M. – 1986
This study investigated the construct validity of five perceptual traits (auditory discrimination, visual discrimination, visual memory, visual-motor coordination, and auditory to visual-motor coordination) with five simulated work samples (union assembly, resistor reading, budgette assembly, lock assembly, and nail and screw sort) from the Jewish…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Perception, Diagnostic Tests, Identification