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Zucker, Kenneth J.; Yoannidis, Tom – 1983
The relationship between preschool children's level of gender understanding and their ability to identify gender-linked attributes was examined. Participants were 26 3-year-old and 30 4-year-old children who were administered a single-cue gender labelling task, Slaby and Frey's (1975) gender constancy test, and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Cues, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedTager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Describes three experiments that tested autistic children's nonverbal and verbal categorization abilities. Concludes that autistic children do not suffer a specific cognitive deficit in ability to categorize and form abstract concepts. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Autism, Classification, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedCawley, John F.; Parmar, Rene S. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1995
Comparison of 80 "good" and 80 "poor" readers of either average intellectual ability or with mild mental retardation found relatively consistent differences between "good" and "poor" readers in each sample. The "poor" readers in each sample met the discrepancy standard for learning disability.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedPrior, Margot; Hoffmann, Wendy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1990
Compared to children matched for mental or chronological age, 12 autistic children (ages 10-17) showed frontal lobe processing problems on neuropsychological tests. Subjects made more errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and the Milner Maze and took longer to complete the maze but copied a complex figure as accurately and speedily as…
Descriptors: Autism, Chronological Age, Cognitive Ability, Intermediate Grades
