PERFORMANCE PROFILES OF MATCHED NORMAL, EDUCATIONALLY SUBNORMAL AND SEVERELY SUBNORMAL CHILDREN ON THE REVISED ITPA

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SUMMARY The revised ITPA was administered to 30 normal, 30 ESN and 30 SSN children, all of MA 5 : 0–5 : 11 and attending day schools. Since most of the retarded children exceeded the CA norms of the battery, raw scores were standardized and subjected to Analysis of Variance, t tests and Stepwise Discriminant Analysis for the purpose of inter group comparison. Results showed that normals scored highest on all sub‐tests, SSNs lowest while ESNs were strictly intermediate. The largest inter‐group differences were found for Visual Sequential Memory, but significant differences were also found between normals and ESNs on Auditory Sequential Memory and between normals and SSNs on both reception subtests, Auditory Association and Auditory Sequential Memory. Both normals and ESNs showed preference for tests in the auditory‐vocal channel over those in the visual‐motor channel. Results are discussed in the light of previous ITPA findings, the special circumstances pertaining to the present study, and the characteristics of the test battery.

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