Information Processing Behaviors Related to Learning Disabilities and Educable Mental Retardation
- 1 September 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Exceptional Children
- Vol. 37 (1) , 21-30
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001440297003700103
Abstract
All the elementary school age children failing in a county school system were administered a battery of psychoeducational tests to determine their information processing behaviors. Of the 472 children who successfully completed audiometric and visual screening and had no school record or medical history of acute physical, chronic health, or social personal problems, one group (N=185) had average and above verbal intelligence. These children were considered to have learning disabilities on the basis of their perceptual deficits. The remaining 287 with below average intelligence (educable mental retardation) seemed to work to predicted grade equivalent in some academic achievement areas. The principal components obtained from an orthogonal rotation of the behavioral variables indicated that these two subject groups had many similar perceptual and language deficits, but decided behavioral differences.Keywords
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