Sensitivity to Causal Cohesion in Stories by Children with Mild Mental Retardation, Children with Learning Disabilities, and Children without Disabilities.

Wolman, Clara

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ERIC Number: EJ431248

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Publication Date: 1991

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Sensitivity to Causal Cohesion in Stories by Children with Mild Mental Retardation, Children with Learning Disabilities, and Children without Disabilities.

Wolman, Clara

Journal of Special Education, v25 n2 p135-54 Sum 1991

This study, involving 16 intermediate-grade children with mild mental retardation, 29 children with learning disabilities, and 37 children without disabilities, found that all groups recalled cohesive story versions better than noncohesive versions. Statements in the stories' causal chain were better recalled than statements not in the causal chain. (Author/JDD)

Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Mild Mental Retardation, Reading Comprehension, Story Grammar, Story Reading

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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