The Development of Mediated Behavior in Children: An Alternative View of Learning Disabilities

Information Processing Theory and Learning Disabilities

“…Further, several studies within the last few years have supported the assumption that LD children have difficulty regulating (i.e., accessing and coordinating) a number of mental activities. The research in this area may be summarized as follows: LD children experience difficulty with such selfregulating mechanisms as checking, planning, monitoring, testing, revising, and evaluating during an attempt to learn or solve problems (e.g., Bauer, in press;Barclay & Hagen, 1982;Brown & Palincsar, 1982;Hallahan, Lloyd, Kosiewicz, Kaufman, & Graves, 1979;McKinney & Haskins, 1980;Scruggs, Mastropieri, & Levin, in press;Swanson, 1984b;Wong, in press). Such children perform poorly on a variety of tasks that require the use of general control processes or strategies for solution (e.g., Bauer, 1979Bauer, , 1982Bauer & Emhert, 1984;Brainerd, Kingman, & Howe, 1986;Dallego & Moely, 1980;Howe, Brainerd, & Kingma, 1985;Tarver, Hallahan, Kaufman, & Ball, 1976; also see Bauer, in press;Worden, 1983, for review).…”