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Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
It is essential that time and effort be spent in order to better understand the issues and impact of learning disabilities in adolescence. (PHR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Involvement, Educational Planning, Educational Trends
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Olson, Judy; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
The relationship between performance on selected subtests of the Detroit Test of Learning Aptitude (DTLA) and academic performance as measured by the Wide Range Achievement Test was analyzed for 65 learning disabled adolescents. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Exceptional Child Research
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Sawyer, Diane J.; Kosoff, Tess O. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
Listening was found to be a potential avenue for learning content area material. Further, findings underscore the value of a response format that minimizes involvement of expressive language in severely disabled students with identifiable expressive language difficulties. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Research
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Kendall, William S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
Results indicated that Ss in the vocational training class were superior to the other two groups in social maturity and career attitudes. Additionally, significant differences in social maturity and career attitudes were found among the three learning disabled groups. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Awareness, Career Education, Exceptional Child Research
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Keilitz, Ingo; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1979
The authors describe a research effort funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention which is addressing the hypothesized link between learning disabilties and juvenile delinquency. (SBH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Definitions, Delinquency, Followup Studies
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McGill-Franzen, Anne – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1979
To demonstrate how one might go beyond mechanical errors to describe, measure, and evaluate student writing as communication, several evaluation procedures were applied to a brief writing protocol submitted by an adolescent learning disabled student. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Teaching, Evaluation Methods
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Wong, Bernice Y. L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Describes three years of research in intensive long-term writing intervention with adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) and low achievement. Successful intervention was attributed to the genre-specific strategies used, the focused and intensive nature of the writing instruction, and the use of interactive dialogs in conferences between…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
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Rojewski, Jay W. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 indicated that adolescents with learning disabilities displayed different career-choice patterns and strategies than nondisabled peers. Subjects were less likely to aspire to high-prestige occupations and were more likely to be indecisive about future occupational alternatives. Females…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Decision Making, Learning Disabilities
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Hallenbeck, Mark J. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2002
A study examined how Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Writing (SCIW), helped enable four seventh-graders with learning disabilities to take over responsibility for their own writing performance and to scaffold one another's writing development. Teacher modeling and scaffolding, writing process collaboration, and structuring think-sheets enabled…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Restructuring, Cooperative Learning, Helplessness
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Wong, Bernice Y. L.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
Twenty-one learning-disabled eighth and eleventh graders wrote essays and answered a questionnaire concerning metacognition. Subjects were comparable to normally achieving sixth graders in their essays' interestingness, clarity in communication of goals, word choice, paragraph structure, and metacognition about the writing process. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Essays, Learning Disabilities
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Prater, Mary Anne; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
Five single-subject studies indicated that adolescents with learning disabilities can successfully implement self-monitoring procedures in special and regular education settings and correspondingly improve their on-task behavior, without regard to classmates' percentage of on-task behavior and with fading of reinforcement and self-monitoring.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Outcomes of Treatment
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Bender, William N.; Rosenkrans, Cecilia B.; Crane, Mary-Kay – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Research is reviewed on stress, depression, and suicide among adolescents with learning disabilities from the risk resilience perspective. Adolescents with nonverbal learning disabilities and/or those who are less academically adept manifest higher rates of depression. Some evidence also exists to support an increased risk of suicide among this…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), High Risk Students
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Scarpati, Stan; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
The Social Relations Model is applied to the evaluation of how 34 secondary school students with learning disabilities (LD) rated their own and peers' social skills and behavioral self-control. Subjects viewed themselves individually as less skilled than they viewed their LD peers as a group, contrary to data from typical children and adults.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities, Peer Evaluation