ERIC Number: EJ686992
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Feb
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0938-8982
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Social-Information-Processing Skills of Kindergarten Children with Developmental Learning Disabilities
Tur-Kaspa, Hana
Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, v19 n1 p3-11 Feb 2004
The study examined the social-information-processing skills of kindergarten children with developmental learning disabilities (LD) utilizing Crick and Dodge's (1994) model of children's social adjustment as a theoretical framework. Participants consisted of 20 kindergarten children with developmental LD who attended three integrated kindergartens and 20 children without developmental LD from the same kindergartens. Participants were assessed on social-information-processing skills, feelings of loneliness, sense of coherence, and teachers' ratings of behavioral problems and positive resources. The results indicated that girls with developmental LD performed significantly lower on two information-processing steps the response decision and the enactment steps than did girls without LD. Such differences were not found for boys. The results also showed that the social-information-processing skills of children with developmental LD were correlated with teachers' ratings.
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Gender Differences, Learning Disabilities, Social Adjustment, Behavior Patterns, Young Children
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Kindergarten
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Language: English
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