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Peer reviewedKavale, Kenneth A.; Forness, Steven R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2000
A meta-analysis of 267 studies conducted between 1950-1980 found that auditory and visual perceptual skills can successfully increase the accuracy of predicting reading achievement, but the magnitude of increases in predictive accuracy was contingent upon the combination of variables studied and was significantly reduced if an IQ score was known.…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Children, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedForness, Steven R.; Kavale, Kenneth A.; Bauman, Stephanie San Miguel – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1998
The authors of an earlier article, which argued that the social skills deficits typically found in children with learning disabilities (LD) are largely due to the comorbidity of LD with psychiatric disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depressive disorder, respond to a critique that did not find this relationship…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Depression (Psychology), Hyperactivity
Peer reviewedKavale, Kenneth A.; Forness, Steven R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1998
This analysis of the politics of learning disabilities finds that the balance between political and scientific aspects of learning disabilities has been disturbed, with political aspects being overly influential. Discussed in detail are the scientific side of learning disabilities, politics as advocacy, politics as ideology (especially Marxism),…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Ideology
Peer reviewedKavale, Kenneth A.; Forness, Steven R.; MacMillan, Donald L.; Gresham, Frank M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1998
This rejoinder to commentaries on the authors' original article (EC 630 380) concerning the balance between science and politics in the education of students with learning disabilities first clarifies and expands particular points, then addresses each of the four commentaries individually. The authors urge increasing scientific research and…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Ideology
Peer reviewedForness, Steven R.; Kavale, Kenneth A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
A meta-analysis of 53 studies on social skills training of children with learning disabilities found a mean effect size of only 0.211, with few differences among teachers, peers, or children themselves who judged the effectiveness of the training. Discussion focuses on possible links between learning disabilities and social skills that might…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedForness, Steven R.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
Eight commonly used discrepancy formulas were applied to the IQ and achievement scores of a sample of 92 potentially learning disabled children, 7 to 12 years old. The formulas yielded strikingly disparate results in terms of the number of children identified as learning disabled by each. (SW)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Disability Identification, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedKavale, Kenneth A.; Forness, Steven R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1984
Meta-analysis was used to arrive at a quantitative synthesis of the results of 94 studies of the validity of Wechsler regroupings for differential diagnosis of learning disabilities. The primary findings indicated that no recategorization, profile, factor cluster, or pattern showed a significant difference between learning disabled and normal…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Learning Disabilities, Profiles
Peer reviewedForness, Steven R.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1987
The original authors respond to a critique of their meta-analysis of 94 studies which had failed to support the presence of distinctive Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children profiles for learning disabled children. The critique contended such a pattern does exist. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification, Intelligence Tests, Learning Disabilities
