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The Effect of Configuration on VSWM Performance of Down Syndrome Individuals
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Carretti, B.; Lanfranchi, S. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: Recent studies have demonstrated that individuals with Down syndrome (DS) are poorer than controls in spatial-simultaneous tasks, but not in spatial-sequential tasks. To explain this finding, it has been suggested that the simultaneous visuo-spatial working memory deficit of individuals with DS could be due to the request for…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Down Syndrome, Short Term Memory, Disabilities
Religious Concepts among Individuals with Intellectual Disability: A Comparison between Adolescents and Adults
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Lifshitz, Heftziba; Katz, Yaacov J. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2009
This study compared behavioural, cognitive, and motivational components of religiosity among 54 Jewish adolescents (aged 13-21 years) and 35 adults (aged 30-60 years) with intellectual disability (ID) (IQ=40-69). A special questionnaire was constructed based on several previous studies by other authors. A different pattern was found between age…
Descriptors: Jews, Mental Retardation, Older Adults, Adolescents
Performance of Retarded Adolescents and Nonretarded Children on One- and Two-Bit Logical Problems
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Spitz, Herman H.; Borys, Suzanne V. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
Retarded and borderline intelligence adolescents (MA 8-12 years) and nonretarded children (MA 6-12 years) were given logical problem solving tasks. Results showed a profound deficiency in low IQ individuals on certain tasks requiring foresight and logic; MA markedly overestimates the performance of these individuals relative to the performance of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Handicapped Children
Mental and Chronological Age as Predictors of Age-Appropriate Leisure Activity in Children with Mental Retardation.
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Evans, David W.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1995
Forty children with mental retardation were compared on everyday leisure-time behaviors with children without mental retardation matched for mental age (MA) or chronological age (CA). Although MA best predicted overall functioning on leisure-time behavior, CA best predicted both single highest behavior performed and highest behavior considered too…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Children
Recognition of Affective Facial Expressions by Children and Adolescents with and without Mental Retardation.
Adams, Kym; Markham, Roslyn – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
Forty-nine children (ages 8-17) with mental retardation recognized facial expressions less accurately than did subjects without retardation who were matched on chronological age. Mental age-matched groups showed no differences in accuracy at a younger mental age, but a difference was found at an older mental age. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children
Use of Preschool Preposition Test for Mentally Retarded and Other Handicapped Children.
Aaronson, May; And Others – 1980
The usefulness of the Preschool Preposition Test (PPT) as a cognitive screening and diagnostic tool for handicapped children is demonstrated through results of eight independent studies. The subjects were 354 children and youths, aged two to 20 years, with various handicaps: mentally retarded, autistic-like, moderately emotionally disturbed,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Cognitive Tests, Disabilities