Auditory, Visual, and Multisensory Nonverbal Social Perception in Adolescents with and without Learning Disabilities
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Vol. 22 (4) , 245-249
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002221948902200408
Abstract
Adolescents with and without learning disabilities (14, 16, and 18 years old) were tested to determine whether they differed in auditory, visual, and/or multisensory (combined auditory/visual) social perception abilities. Differences between the two groups in growth of auditory, visual, and multisensory social-perception abilities were also measured. Results of the data analyses revealed that adolescents with learning disabilities were not as adept at understanding nonverbal social information regardless of whether the information was visual or multisensory in nature. Further, nonverbal social-perception ability for both visual and multisensory information improved with increasing age for both populations. Finally, adolescents with learning disabilities continued to demonstrate comparatively poorer social-perception abilities through the 18-year level.Keywords
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