Date of Award
7-1984
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Special Education and Communication Disorders
First Advisor
Thomas Lorsbach
Second Advisor
Scott Harrington
Third Advisor
Richard Blake
Abstract
Slow rate of information processing has been offered as an explanation for the short-term memory problems of learning and/or reading disabled children (e.g., Spring & Capps, 1974). The present investigation used an item identification task and a memory span task to determine whether, when learning and/or reading disabled and non-disabled children are equated with regard to the speed with which they process information, their measured memory spans are also equal. It was hypothesized that the observed memory span differences would be eliminated by equating the two groups on a measure of processing rate.
Recommended Citation
Gray, Jeffrey Wayne, "An investigation of the relationship between processing rate and memory span in learning disabled children" (1984). Student Work. 285.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/285