Learning disabilities and memory

HL Swanson, JB Cooney, JK McNamara - Learning about learning …, 2004 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Memory is a critical area of focus in the field of Learning Disabilities
(LDs) as it is linked to performance in several academic and cognitive areas. This chapter …

Memory strategies in children with learning disabilities

RS Newman, JW Hagen - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 1981 - Elsevier
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 …

Memory processes in children with learning disabilities: Evidence for deficient rehearsal

RH Bauer - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977 - Elsevier
The possibility that deficient rehearsal is responsible for poor learning in children with
learning disabilities was examined by comparing single-trial immediate and delayed free …

Memory processes in reading disabled children

JK Torgesen - Journal of Learning disabilities, 1985 - journals.sagepub.com
For the past several years, the study of memory processes in children with reading
disabilities has been a very popular area of inquiry. The goal of most recent research has …

Can learning disabilities be determined from working memory performance?

H Lee Swanson, KF Cochran… - Journal of learning …, 1990 - journals.sagepub.com
This study assumes that children of various academic abilities may be characterized by
different patterns of memory function. To test this assumption, subgroups of children were …

Storage-retrieval processes of normal and learning-disabled children: A stages-of-learning analysis of picture-word effects

ML Howe, CJ Brainerd, J Kingma - Child Development, 1985 - JSTOR
Previous research comparing acquisition performance of learning-disabled and normally
achieving children has led to the suggestion that the locus of memory differences lies in …

PROGRESS IN LEARNING DISABILITIES. VOLUME I.

HR Myklebust - 1968 - ERIC
THE FIRST OF A SERIES DEALING WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES FROM A
PSYCHONEUROLOGICAL STANDPOINT, THE VOLUME CONTAINS CURRENT …

Memory for everyday information in students with learning disabilities

JK McNamara, B Wong - Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
This study compared students with and without learning disabilities (LD) on their recall of
academic information and information encountered in the students' everyday lives. The …

Factors related to poor performance on memory tasks in reading disabled children

JK Torgesen - Learning Disability Quarterly, 1979 - journals.sagepub.com
This research tested the hypothesis that many reading disabled children's failure to apply
effective strategies to rote-memory tasks is related to their general lack of reflective …

Information processing as a way of understanding and diagnosing learning disabilities.

RH Bauer - Topics in Learning & Learning Disabilities, 1982 - psycnet.apa.org
Reviews studies on information processing and demonstrates that memory processing can
be thought of as involving at least 3 stages:(1) an encoding stage in which the items are …