Maternal Behavior and Family Constellation as Predictors of Social Competence in Learning Disabled Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Horen Freund ◽  
Richard Elardo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Maternal Behavior ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Parental Behavior ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Family Constellation ◽  
The Social

The extent to which the social relationship deficits exhibited by some learning disabled children might be associated with parental behavior is largely undetermined. This study is an attempt to analyze a variety of factors related to maternal behavior and family constellations in a learning disabled population. While the study suffers from a small number of subjects, the results provide preliminary data in a research area largely neglected in learning disabilities.

Referential Communication Abilities of Learning Disabled Children

1980 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Noel
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Referential Communication ◽  
Communication Effectiveness ◽  
Language Function ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Communication Ability ◽  
General Communication

Disorders of spoken language have long been associated with learning disabilities. Recent research has focused less on linguistic characteristics and more on general communication effectiveness. This study investigated the referential communication ability of LD and non-LD elementary students. Developmental research has indicated that this language function tends to be well developed by early childhood and is a major precursor of later communication competence. Results of the present study indicated that LD students were less effective in providing descriptive information about objects than non-LD peers. Further analysis of LD communication revealed that such a lack of effectiveness was due to the LD students' limited use of labeling in their verbal descriptions.

The Relationship between Creativity and Selective Attention in LD Boys

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara G. Tarver ◽  
Barbara R. Buss ◽  
Ronald P. Maggiore
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The Relationship

Historically, most programming and research efforts in the field of learning disabilities have focused on the disabilities evidenced by LD children and youth. By representing an attempt to consider the positive attributes of LD individuals, the study of creativity in the learning disabled population takes on special significance. The results of this investigation support the relationship between selective attention and creativity in LD boys. However, it was found that the relationship changed as a function of age and the type of creativity measured. The issues raised by this line of inquiry should provide impetus for other investigations designed to explore such attributes as creativity in learning disabled children and youth.

Strategy Training: A Need for Clarification

1987 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie U. deBettencourt
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Strategy Training ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Training Interventions ◽  
Precise Understanding

On the basis of research in the field of learning disabilities it has been concluded that many learning disabled students can be characterized as strategy-deficient, inactive learners. However, a precise understanding of strategy training procedures is frequently obscured by researchers. The term “strategy training” needs to be defined more clearly so that the approaches are understood more universally. In this article I discuss the rationale for strategy training interventions with learning disabled children, describe three approaches that are currently being studied in the field, and discuss the issues that arise.

A Phenomenological Study of the Social/Emotional Characteristics of Gifted Learning Disabled Children

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Vespi ◽  
Carolyn Yewchuk
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Development ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this study was to explore the social/emotional development of gifted learning disabled students using a phenomenological approach. A series of interviews was conducted with four gifted learning disabled boys aged nine to twelve, their parents, and their teachers. Using procedures recommended by Colaizzi (1978) and Kruger (1979), themes were extracted from the interviews, and then grouped into categories to provide an overall description of the characteristics of gifted learning disabled children's social/emotional development. After comparing these characteristics to those of gifted children and learning disabled children, implications were drawn for educational programming and future research.

Doubts and Fears of the Learning Disabled

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley N. Chervin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Academic Difficulties ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social

The social and emotional components of learning disabilities must be addressed as fully as academic difficulties.

Social Interactions of Learning Disabled Children: A Linguistic, Social and Cognitive Analysis

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanis Bryan ◽  
Susanna Pftaum
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Cognitive Analysis ◽  
Academic Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Competency

In analyzing the linguistic, social, and cognitive attributes of the social interactions of learning disabled children, Bryan and Pflaum have raised some questions about the practice of classifying learning disabled on intelligence and academic factors alone. This study examines the language competency of learning disabled children as it relates to social situations demanding interpersonal communication skills. The importance of studying the content and style of the learning disabled child's communication across social situations is stressed.

scholarly journals The inner self-narratives and academic self-perceptions of those with learning disabilities in post-secondary settings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Alexandra Mendes Bronze
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Disability Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Construction Of Disability

The purpose of this study was to explore the various disabled identities of those with learning disabilities in higher educational settings, and its impact on academic self-worth. The majority of scholarship has essentialized both disabled identity and academic self-perception, fostering the victimization of those with learning disabilities in the pursuit of their education. This study problematized the medical model, viewing disability as an internal and fixed identity, negatively implicating self-worth. In contrast, this study incorporated a critical disability theory, to highlight the social construction of disability, complimented with a postmodernist lens to appreciate the fluidity of identity and perceptions. A narrative methodological approach was utilized to give voice to the experiences and stories of five self-identifying learning disabled students from Ryerson University. The findings of this research suggest that learning disabled student relate to three different types of disability narratives or identities, implicating their academic worth in many ways.

Comprehension of Linguistic Concepts Requiring Logical Operations by Learning-Disabled Children

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth H. Wiig ◽  
Eleanor M. Semel
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Preliminary Finding ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Logical Operations ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Remedial Intervention

The comprehension of linguistic concepts requiring logical operations was compared in 32 learning-disabled and 16 achieving children. The results indicated that the learning-disabled children made significantly more errors than their controls. Comparison of the performances of learning-disabled males and females indicated no significant differences. It was concluded that children with specific learning disabilities exhibit significant deficits in their ability to comprehend linguistic concepts requiring logical operations. These deficits were interpreted to reflect impairments of abstraction and generalization and simultaneous analysis and synthesis as well as delays in logical development. Subsequently, the effect of remedial intervention was assessed in six learning-disabled, first-grade, transition-class males. The results showed no significant performance changes during a six-week control period before training. In contrast, there was a significant improvement in sentence comprehension after six weeks of remedial intervention. The preliminary finding that remedial intervention effectively improved logicogrammatical sentence comprehension indicates a favorable prognosis for the remediation of these deficits in children with learning disabilities.

Competencies for Professionals in Learning Disabilities

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis L. Newcomer
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Major Step ◽  
Broad Base ◽  
Current Practices

A major role of any professional organization is to establish standards by which professionals and practices in the field can be evaluated. DCLD has taken a major step in this direction by developing a set of competencies for teachers of learning disabled children and youth. This article presents the rationale behind the development of these competencies as well as potential uses of the competency statements. The development of this set of competency statements underscores the Division's commitment to upgrading current practices. Readers are strongly encouraged to provide feedback to Dr. Newcomer's Committee on the scope, format, and content of the competency statements. Meaningful standards can best be derived from these statements through a broad base of input from professionals in the field.

Children's and Parents' Views of Ingratiation Tactics

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Bryan ◽  
L. Joseph Sonnefeld ◽  
Flora Zaken Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Social Skills Training ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Additional Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intelligence Test Scores ◽  
Sociometric Ratings

Three studies were conducted. In Study I, 272 children were individually administered, via tape recordings, a questionnaire designed to assess their preferences for ingratiation tactics given particular targets. It was found that learning disabled children preferred ingratiation strategies which were judged less socially desirable by adults than those selected by non-learning disabled children. Additionally, scores on the questionnaire were not correlated with intelligence test scores, but were correlated with the child's sociometric ratings from peers and teacher ratings of the child's academic and attentional competence. In Study II parents of learning disabled and nondisabled children were compared as to their ratings of the social desirability of various ingratiation tactics. While no differences were found which were attributable to parent differences, parents made reliable discriminations as to the social desirability of various tactics addressed to particular targets. Study III attempted to replicate the results of adult judgments of ingratiation tactics obtained in studies I and II by employing an additional group of college students as subjects. Results across the studies suggest that adults agree on the social desirability of some forms of ingratiation tactics as used in interaction with particular targets. The implications of these findings for social-skills training are discussed.

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