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Swanson, H. Lee; Trahan, Marcy – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
Thirty-five learning-disabled readers (mean age 10) and 43 controls were compared on a sentence span task and on recall of everyday features, consequential events, and misleading information. Results indicated that subjects were deficient on working memory and naturalistic measures, but their naturalistic memory deficits did not appear to relate…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Memory, Performance Factors