Reflections on 'Promoting Thinking Skills of Students With Learning Disabilities: Effects on Recall and Comprehension of Expository Prose'

Abstract

For over a decade, we have been interested in the acquisition and maintenance of verbal associations by students with mild disabilities, including learning disabil- ities (LD), mild mental retardation, and behavioral disorders or emotional disturbance. We have felt that failure to make important cognitive "connections" between already known and to-be-learned information was a primary character- istic of students referred to special education. In this reflection piece, we describe how we think both mnemonic strategies and elaborative interrogation address this problem.