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Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
A total of 15 learning-disabled and 15 skilled readers viewed three groups of nonsense pictures (unnamed, name-nonassociated, and name-associated), then recalled them later. Results suggested learning disabled children's reading difficulties are due to an inability to activate a semantic representation that interconnects visual and verbal codes.…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Imagery, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates the extent to which learning disabled readers' atypical encoding relates to their deficiencies in semantic memory by comparing learning disabled and nondisabled readers in two age groups on dichotic listening tasks that included orienting and nonorienting instructions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
