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Social inference skills in learning disabled and nondisabled children
Author(s) -
Saloner Michele R.,
Gettinger Maribeth
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198504)22:2<201::aid-pits2310220214>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - psychology , inference , perception , fluency , developmental psychology , learning disability , test (biology) , visual perception , social perception , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , biology
The study examined the performance of 30 learning disabled and 30 nondisabled children in grades 1 through 7 on the Test of Social Inference (TSI). Results indicated that disabled students obtained lower TSI total scores that did nondisabled students: they also performed relatively lower on TSI items requiring more verbal expression. While no difference was found between the groups on the Motor‐Free Visual Perception Test (MVPT), the relationship between MVPT and TSI scores was shown to be significant within the disabled group only. Furthermore, this group made more perceptual‐type errors on the TSI. Findings are discussed in relation to previous research suggesting a link between visual perception and/or language fluency and social inference skills among learning disabled children.