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D G Doehring

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PubMed1983

Judgments of vocal affect by language-delayed children.

Judgment of vocal affect was studied in 19 language-delayed children and 19 children with normal language. The children responded to utterances spoken in an angry, happy, or sad tone of voice by pointing to a picture of an angry, a happy, or a sad face. The language-delayed children made significantly fewer correct judgments. The normal children judged all three emotions quite accurately, whereas the language-delayed children were very poor in judging sadness and showed a bias for judging all three emotional tones as anger. The language-delayed children tended to improve with age, but age trends in normal children were obscured by near-perfect performance of many children. The practical and theoretical importance of further research was discussed.

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PubMed1977

Classification of reading problems by the Q-technique of factor analysis.

The Q-technique of factor analysis was used to define subtypes of reading problems in terms of performance on 31 tests of rapid reading skills. Subjects included a group of 34 children with learning problems, language problems, and mental retardation. Three subgroups were identified within each group by the statistical classification procedure. For the reading group, one subgroup was characterized by slow oral word reading, a second by slow auditory-visual letter association, and a third by slow auditory-visual association of words and syllables. The first and second subgroups for the mixed group were essentially the same as the second and third subgroups for the reading group, and the third subgroup was characterized by slow visual matching. These results were compared with those of previous investigators, none of whom used multivariate correlational procedures for classifying reading disabilities. It was concluded that the use of statistical classification techniques would greatly facilitate the achievement of a consensus regarding the number and the types of developmental reading disabilities.

Age Factors↗