Prose learning in children and adults with Down syndrome: The use of visual and mental image strategies to improve recall

Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 199-206

  De La Iglesia, J Carmen F ^a   Buceta, M José ^a   Campos, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Learning strategies; Mental imagery; Mnemonic strategies; Recall; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 30844446046     PISSN: 13668250     EISSN: 14699532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668250500349391     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Alesandrini, K. L. (1981). Pictorial-verbal and analytic-holistic learning strategies in science learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 73, 358-368.
2. Anderson, R. C., & Kulhavy, R. W. (1972). Imagery and prose learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 63, 242-243.
3. Bellezza, F. S. (1981). Mnemonic devices: Classification, characteristics and criteria. Review of Educational Research, 51, 247-275.
4. Belmont, J. M., & Butterfield, C. E. (1971). Learning strategies as determinants of mental deficiency. Cognitive Psychology, 2, 411-420.
5. Bender, B. G., & Levin, J. R. (1978). Pictures, imagery and retarded children's prose learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 583-588.
6. Bilovsky, D., & Share, S. (1965). The ITPA and Down syndrome: An exploratory study. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 70, 72-82.
7. Bower, A., & Hayes, A. (1994). Short-term memory deficits and Down syndrome: A comparative study. Down Syndrome: Research and Practice, 2, 47-50.
8. Bowler, D. (1991). Rehearsal training and short-term free recall of sign and word labels by severely handicapped children. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 35, 113-124.
9. Broadley, I., & MacDonald, J. (1993). Teaching short-term memory skills to children with Down syndrome. Down Syndrome: Research and Practice, 1, 56-62.
10. Broadley, I., MacDonald, J., & Buckley, S. (1994). Are children with Down syndrome able to maintain skills learned from a short-term memory training programs? Down Syndrome: Research and Practice, 2, 116-122.
11. Broadley, I., MacDonald, J., & Buckley, S. (1995). Working memory in children with Down syndrome. Down Syndrome: Research and Practice, 3, 3-8.
12. Brown, A. L., Campione, J. C., Bray, N. W., & Wilcoxon, B. L. (1974). Keeping track of changing variables: Effects of rehearsal training and rehearsal prevention in normal and retarded adolescents. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 101, 123-131.
13. Burr, D. B., & Rohr, A. (1978). Etiological differences in patterns of psycholinguistic development of children of I.Q. 30 to 60. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 82, 549-553.
14. Campos, A., Amor, A., & González, M. A. (2002). Presentation of keywords by means of interactive drawings. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 5, 102-109.
15. Campos, A., & Fernández, C. I. (1998). La imagen mental en el sistema de enlace. Revista de Psicologia de la PUCP, 16, 3-17.
16. Campos, A., González, M. A., & Amor, A. (2003). Limitations of mnemonic-keyword method. Journal of General Psychology, 130, 399-413.
17. Carney, R. N., & Levin, J. R. (2000). Fading mnemonic memories: Here's looking anew, again! Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25, 499-508.
18. Chan, L. K., Cole, P. G., & Morris, J. N. (1990). Effects of instruction in the use of a visual-imagery strategy on the reading-comprehension competence of disabled and average readers. Learning Disability Quarterly, 13, 2-11.
19. Comblain, A. (1994). Working memory in Down syndrome: Training the rehearsal strategy. Down Syndrome: Research and Practice, 2, 123-126.
20. Courbois, Y. (1996). Evidence for visual imagery deficits in persons with mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 101, 130-148.
21. Denis, M. (1979). Les images mentales. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
22. Denis, M. (1984). Las imágenes mentales. Madrid: Siglo XXI.
23. Dretzke, B. J. (1993). Effects of pictorial mnemonic strategy usage on prose recall of young, middle-aged, and older adults. Educational Gerontology, 19, 489-502.
24. Farb, J., & Throne, J. M. (1978). Improving the generalized mnemonic performance of a Down's syndrome child. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 11, 413-419.
25. Gupta, R. K., & Shetty, S. D. (1992). Visual and auditory memory in Down syndrome children. Indian Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation, 6, 1-8.
26. Higbee, K. L. (1998). Su memoria. Cómo funciona y como mejorarla. Barcelona: Paidós.
27. Hill, L. (1995). An exploratory study to investigate different methods for teaching sight vocabulary to people with learning disabilities of differing aetiologies. Down Syndrome: Research and Practice, 3, 23-28.
28. Hulme, C., & Mackenzie, S. (1992). Working memory and severe learning difficulties. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum.
29. Kaufman, A. L., & Kaufman, N. L. (Adaptación española Cordero, A. y Calonge, I). (1997). Test Breve de Inteligencia de Kaufman. Madrid: TEA Ediciones.
30. Laws, G. (1995). Developing memory skills: Activities to improve memory and reasoning skills. Down Syndrome Trust Newsletter, 5, 1-4.
31. Levin, J. R., & Divine-Hawkins, P. (1974). Visual imagery as a prose-learning process. Journal of Reading Behavior, 6, 23-30.
32. MacDade, H. L., & Adler, S. (1980). Down syndrome and short-term memory impairment: A storage or retrieval deficit? American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 84, 561-567.
33. Marcell, M. M. (1994). Auditory and visual digit recall by Down syndrome and other mentally handicapped youth. Paper presented at the International Down Syndrome Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.
34. Marcell, M. M., & Armstrong, V. (1982). Auditory and visual sequential memory of Down syndrome and non-retarded children. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 87, 86-95.
35. Marcell, M. M., Ridgeway, M. M., Sewell, D. H., & Whelan, M. L. (1995). Sentence imitation by adolescents and young adults with Down's syndrome and other intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 39, 215-232.
36. Marcell, M. M., & Weeks, S. L. (1988). Short-term memory difficulties and Down's syndrome. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 32, 153-162.
37. Mastropieri, M. A., & Scruggs, T. E. (1989). Mnemonic social studies instruction: Classroom applications. Remedial and Special Education, 10, 40-46.
38. Mastropieri, M. A., Scruggs, T. E., & Levin, J. R. (1987a). Learning disabled students' memory for expository prose: Mnemonic versus nonmnemonic pictures. American Educational Research Journal, 24, 505-519.
39. Mastropieri, M. A., Scruggs, T. E., & Levin, J. R. (1987b). Mnemonic instruction in special education. In M. A. McDaniel, & M. Pressley (Eds.), Imagery and related mnemonic processes: Theories, individual differences and applications (pp. 358-376). London: Springer-Verlag.
40. Miñán-Espigares, A. (1999). La educación de las personas con síndrome de Down. In M. A. Loy-Royo, & N. López-Urquízar (Eds.), Bases psicopedagógicas de la educación especial (pp. 273-294). Madrid: Ediciones Pirámide.
41. Paivio, A. (1969). Mental imagery in associate learning. Psychological Review, 76, 241-263.
42. Paivio, A. (1979). Imagery and verbal processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
43. Pueschel, S. M. (1988). Procesos cognitivos y aprendizaje en niños con Síndrome de Down. In O. Pascual (Ed.), Síndrome de Down. Avances médicos y psicopedagógicos (pp. 225-235). Barcelona: Fundació Catalana síndrome de Down.
44. Rasco, R. W., Tennyson, R. D., & Boutwell, R. C. (1975). Imagery instructions and drawings in learning prose. Journal of Educational Psychology, 67, 188-192.
45. Riding, R. J., & Calvey, I. (1981). The assessment of verbal-imagery learning styles and their effect on the recall of concrete and abstract prose passages by 11-year-old children. British Journal of Psychology, 72, 59-64.
46. Scruggs, T. E., & Mastropieri, M. A. (1990). The case for mnemonic instruction: From laboratory research to classroom applications. Journal of Special Education, 24, 7-31.
47. Simon, E. W., Rappaport, D. A., & Agriesti, M. (1995). Memory performance in adults with Down syndrome. Australia & New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 20, 113-125.
48. Wood, E., Pressley, M., Turnure, J. E., & Walton, R. (1987). Enriching children's recall of picture-dictionary definitions with interrogation and elaborated pictures. Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 35, 43-52.
49. Yarmey, A. D., & Bowen, N. V. (1972). The role of imagery in incidental learning of educable retarded and normal children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 14, 303-312.