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Peer reviewedvan der Wissel, A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The study demonstrated that 36 male children (ages 7-10) with learning problems were characterized not by a restricted vocabulary as such (i.e., the variance common to both receptive and productive vocabulary measures) but by a hampered production of words (i.e., the variance common to both speed-of-naming and productive vocabulary measures.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedMasterson, Julie J.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Children (ages 9-13) with language-learning disabilities were administered 5 types of verbal analogies: synonyms, antonyms, linear order, category membership, and functional relationship. Subjects performed worse than mental age-matched children on all types of analogies and performed worse than language age-matched children on all types except…
Descriptors: Analogy, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
