The purpose of this study was to identify the differences in the reading behaviors of subgroups of learning disabled children and of normal children.The null hypothesis tested in this study explored differences in the performances of learning disabled subgroups and normal children in the following areas: graphic similarity, sound similarity, grammatical function, comprehension pattern, grammatical relationships and retelling score. These areas were measured by the use of the Reading; Miscue Inventory and the Analytical Reading Inventory.Ninety students were chosen to participate in the study. Fifty-eight learning disabled students were classified either Learning Disabled - No Discrepancy or Learning Disabled - Discrepancy according to scores obtained on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised. Thirty-two average students were chosen by a teacher questionnaire.Multivariate analysis of variance was used to assess between group differences. Since the null hypothesis was rejected, pest hoc pairwise comparisons were conducted tc determine which pairs of means were responsible for the overall rejection. Only the difference in the Sound Similarity measure for the normal group and the LD-N subgroup emerged as clearly contributing to that rejection. Although the Retelling measure was also found to contribute significantly, this difference was not explained by any of the pairwise comparisons.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/177147 |
| Date | January 1981 |
| Creators | Jones, Ruth Ellen |
| Contributors | Cooper, J. David |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | vii, 159 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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