Abstract

16 Oct.lNov.lDee. 1985 SIG Bulletin .The Learning Disabled and Computer Based Education: Program Design Strategies by David Rubin, Patricia Blake, Betty Aten-Iossi .{Editor's Note: This article was ex­ comparing, sorting, relating, interpret. the mind can simultaneously process. cerpted from an occasional paper by the ing, synthesizing, extrapolating and From the information processing per­ same name put out by the Research and others. We will refer to these higher- spective, dysfunctions related to indi­ Educational Applications Center for the order skills as processing skills. In con- vidual capacity limits are natural candi­ trast to input-level processes, which have dates for explaining numerous kinds of Handicapped. REACH is housed within the American Institute for Research in been assembled into flow models by a learning disabilities. Is the child who the Behavioral Sciences, P. O. Box 1113, number of researchers, higher-level cog- slowly decodes prose phonetically with­ Palo Alto, CA 94302.J nitive processes have, for the most part, out comprehending its meaning actually been viewed as either too complex or not exhausting processing capacity on the understood enough to organize in decoding task, leaving no excess capa­ similar fashion. city for semantic analysis? If so, are Less attention has been given to