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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Mental age"”.
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Chronological Age and Mental Age in Discrimination Learning Under Reinforcement Delay
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Reversal Learning in Children as a Function of Acculturation, Task Complexity, and Mental Age
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A Comparative Study of Mentally Retarded and Mentally Normal Boys of the Same Mental Age on Some Aspects of the Reading Process
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A comparison of directed and non-directed easel paintings of sixteen nursery school children
… of preschool children, the relationship of the mental age and the chronological age to the acceptance of suggestions, and the relationship of the mental age and the chronological age to the ability to represent form, Factors considered were the length of enrollment and age of the subjects. The …
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Developmental Shifts in Stimulus Processing (Classification, Discrimination, Autism)
… produced two different sets of results in low-mental age children. In one cluster of studies, research has indicated that young children respond to several cues within a stimulus object. In a second cluster of studies, researchers have found that young normal and autistic children typically …
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Memory for Meaning and Sound: A Test of the Developmental and Difference Theories of Mental Retardation.
Intellectually, the mentally retarded child is often characterized as being similar to the younger nonretarded child. This concept is implicit in the use of a "mental age" in standardized intelligence tests. The retarded adolescent who obtains a score comparable to that of the average 10 year old …
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A Study of first Grade Entrance Practices in the State of Washington
… in the state of Washington? Is chronological age the only determining factor? Is any consideration given to mental age? To what extent are the emotional and social factors considered? Is attendance in a kindergarten a factor?
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The effect of the DUSO guidance program on the intelligence and social behaviour of institutionalised mentally retarded children
… the DUSO Guidance Program on institutionalised mentally retarded children. It was hypothesised that as a result of the social stimulation received from this enrichment program, the mental age (MA) and IQ of the children would increase and their social behaviour improve. The background to this …
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Training Analogical Reasoning Skills in Children With Language Disorders
… in analogical reasoning was examined in school-aged children with language disorders. Analogy training was divided into two phases. The first phase consisted of direct instruction in the componential processes of analogical reasoning and the second phase included bridging activities incorporated …
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Avaliação psicopedagógica e suas contribuições na hipótese diagnóstica da deficiência intelectual
… Centric Operations in Learning (EOCA), Piaget Operative Evidence, School Performance Test (TDE) and activities of reading, writing, arithmetic and textual interpretation. Participated in this study a female child, aged nine years and ten months, attending the 4th year of elementary school …
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Parenting behavior and executive function in children with Down syndrome
… and dyads with TD children matched on non-verbal mental age. DS dyads (n= 44) and TD dyads (n=29) participated in the Parent-Child Challenge Task to assess behaviors of both the parent and child during a challenging problem-solving task. Parent directive and teaching behaviors were coded, along …
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The relationship of developmental functioning to symptom presentation in young children with ASD
… (ASD) and typical development (TD) on developmental skills and core symptoms of ASD. Further, the relationship between core symptoms of ASD and developmental functioning level were assessed. Specific symptoms, joint attention, symbolic play, gestures, and RSB, as well as general symptom …
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An Evaluation of the Grover-Counter Test for use in the Assessment of Black South African Township Children with Mental Handicaps
… segregated schools underperformed after the age of 7 years, and this finding is examined in detail. A construct validity study was conducted on a sample of mentally handicapped children using the Griffiths Scales of Mental Development (Griffiths) and the Draw-A-Man (DAM) test. Mental age …
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Emotion Recognition of Dynamic Faces in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… with sound, to compare children with ASD (n=8; aged 6-10, 7 male) with mental age (MA) and gender matched controls (n=8; aged 4-10, 7 male) on an emotion identification and eye tracking task. Children were asked to watch several short video clips (2.5-5 seconds) portraying the emotions of happy, …
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Role taking ability and social interaction competence in mental retardation and autism
… has been examined in many ways including developmental studies with normal subjects and studies which demonstrated role taking deficits in a variety of special populations. Recent data suggest that individuals with autism also show such deficits when compared to nonautistic mentally retarded …
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Word learning from object, speaker and environmental cues in typically developing children, children with autism spectrum disorder and children with other developmental disorders.
… weighting of conflicting speaker and environmental cues (Study Five). Control groups of typically developing (TD) children and children with other developmental disorders (DD) were also included. In order to tease apart whether word learning is delayed or deviant in ASD and if this extends to …
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Evidence of emotion knowledge in down syndrome
… typically developing (TD) children of equivalent mental age (3 to 6 years). The ability to identify emotions from facial cues and social context was measured. This study improved upon past research by assessing emotion knowledge without a verbal narrative of the social context (minimizing language …
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Ability of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Identify Emotional Facial Expressions
… included 10 children with ASD between the ages of four and 12, and 10 gender- and mental age-matched children with typical development between six and 12. Overall, both ASD and typically developing groups performed similarly in their accuracy, though the group with typical development …
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A study of factors related to the reading ability of beginning kindergarten children
… (3) auditory discrimination; (4) oral language; (5) chronological age; and (6) mental age. Two, the relationship between reading as measured by word call and comprehension, and sex and socioeconomic status was investigated. Three, the relationships between reading and the environmental and …
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