Analysis of Cognitive Abilities of Adolescents Learning Disabled Specifically in Arithmetic Computation

This research was published by the KU Center for Research on Learning, formerly known as the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities.This investigation identified a group of adolescents homogeneously defined as specifically learning disabled in arithmetic and examined whether cognitive processes measured by visual-spatial, visual-reasoning, and visual-memory tasks are related to this task failure. The results indicate that a relationship exists between two major components in the LD definition --academic task failure and specific cognitive abilities. There is validity to these two components when a very specific population of students disabled in arithmetic have been identified