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Peer reviewedElliott, Lois L.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines whether age-related differences would be observed between young children and adults for discrimination of synthesized, five-format consonant-vowel syllables that differed in voicing onset time of the initial consonants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli
Salend, Spencer J.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1989
The study's results showed that the self-instruction procedure used by four severely retarded adults led to improved vocational skills as indicated by increased work production rates and a concomitant decrease in the number of errors. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Instructional Effectiveness, Job Skills, Self Control
Peer reviewedDavis, Hank; And Others – Annals of Dyslexia, 1992
This case study of a 30-year-old woman with a developmental learning disability (including anomia, auditory processing problems, difficulty in learning reading and spelling skills, and a poor sense of number) suggests that all these impairments may be explained in terms of a sequential processing deficit. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Females
Download full textDean, Raymond S.; Gray, Jeffrey W. – 1985
Research has suggested that the two hemispheres of the brain serve specialized functions, with the most recent studies portraying the left hemisphere as processing information in a linear, serial, or sequential manner and the right hemisphere as processing information in a holistic, concrete, or visual mode. Although few systematic studies have…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Brain, Cerebral Dominance
