Numerous reading and reading readiness programs have been made available to teachers over the years, constructed on the assumption that certain auditory and visual perceptual skills are prerequisites to successful achievement in academics, particularly reading. Many educators have suggested that children who have been labeled learning or reading disabled demonstrate deficits at the perceptual l...

The Southern California Sensory Integration Test results of 109 learning-disabled children were reviewed and analyzed to investigate the hypothesis that learning-disabled children with excessive postrotary nystagmus durations display greater neuropsychological impairment than learning-disabled children with normal or depressed postrotary nystagmus. The findings supported the hypothesis that lea...

Introduction: The main problems of children with learning disorder are in cognition and their sensations. The present study aimed to investigate the comparison of active memory and sensory processing styles in boys and girls with writing learning disorder. Methods: The methodology of this descriptive study was the Control-case study type. The statistical population of this study was all girls ...

Although not every learning disabled child is hyperactive, nor is every hyperactive child necessarily learning disabled, a significant percentage of learning disabled children display the behavioral characteristics of either sensory or motor hyperactivity. Having concomitant learning and management problems, such children provide teachers and school administrators with a most intricate and bewi...

BACKGROUND The present study examined whether the learning benefits of an external focus of attention (i.e., on the movement effect) relative to an internal focus (i.e. on the movement), found previously in non-disabled children and adults would also be found in children with intellectual disabilities (IDs). METHODS Participants (n = 24; average age: 12.2 years) with mild intellectual deficie...

1 Stein’s lemma • In a landmark paper, Stein (1981) derived a beautiful and simple lemma about the standard normal distribution. Indeed, Stein knew of this result much earlier and wrote about it in previous papers, but in Stein (1981), the author developed a multivariate extension of this lemma that led to a remarkable result on unbiased risk estimation. (And, an interesting note: the paper Ste...

Memory strategies were examined among children, 7-13 years old, with diagnosed learning disabilities, in order to investigate whether they perform in appropriately active and efficient ways. The children were grouped at two age levels and administered tasks of serial recall and free recall. A strategy-training session was conducted on the second task. On the serial recall, neither age group sho...

A prospective study of the families of young severely disabled children applying to a non-governmental organization for financial support examined the respective contributions of a child's intrinsic impairment and the family's environment to their participation. The study population comprised the families of 600 children of median age 2 years 8 months (range 1y-12y 1mo), of whom 46% had autisti...