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Laurie A. Coker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This developmental research aims to: (1) examine the developmental processes of the application called MagicSpells, a haptically-enhanced, digital, vocabulary acquisition application design for learners with dyslexia, (2) investigate the structure and design of the application, and (3) analyze the results of the reviews and usability tests…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Software, Vocabulary Development, Dyslexia
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Xu, Zhengye; Liu, Duo; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
In the present study, 144 second- and 150 fourth-grade Chinese students were recruited to complete a Chinese character learning task to explore the specific contributions of sensory-motor components (i.e., visual, motor, and haptic systems) of handwriting to Chinese character learning. After matching for age, nonverbal IQ, and a series of…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Handwriting, Orthographic Symbols, Written Language
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Takeuchi, Mika S.; Miyaoka, Hitoshi; Tomoda, Atsuko; Suzuki, Masao; Liu, Qingbo; Kitamura, Toshinori – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
Interpersonal touch has been little studied empirically as an indicator of parent- and peer-child intimacy. Undergraduate students (n = 390) were studied using a questionnaire survey regarding the frequencies of interpersonal touch by father, mother, same-sex peers, and opposite-sex peers during preschool ages, grades 1-3, grades 4-6, and grades…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intimacy, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents
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Kercood, Suneeta; Grskovic, Janice A.; Lee, David L.; Emmert, Stacey – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2007
This study evaluated the effectiveness of fine motor physical activity with tactile stimulation during two conditions of math problem solving, visual and auditory. Eight 4th and 5th grade students with attention problems participated. Using an alternating treatments design, students solved as many math story problems as they could, presented on…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Physical Activities, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Emmert, Stacey; Kercood, Suneeta; Grskovic, Janice A. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2009
Using a single-subject alternating treatments reversal design, the effects of three conditions, tactile stimulation, auditory stimulation, and choice of the two, were compared on the math story problem solving of elementary students with attention problems. Students attempted and solved slightly more problems and engaged in fewer off-task…
Descriptors: Tactual Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students
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Vincent, Carol – School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
This schools fourth-grade language arts curriculum includes two stories that deal with blindness. The stories prompted Carol Vincent to invite one of her students' parents, who participates in a guide dog program by raising puppies, to bring one of her dogs to school and explain the training of guiding-eye dogs, and the ways in which they can be…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Language Arts, Grade 4, Blindness