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CEREBRAL PALSIED [3 records]

Record 1 1999-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
OBS

Never identify people solely by their disability.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
OBS

[A measure of] intelligence and mental age for all individuals 2-18 years old including the deaf, cerebral palsied, non-English speaking, and culturally disadvantaged. Description : multiple item, nonverbal task assessment test of intelligence. The subject is required to match blocks with corresponding characteristic strips positioned in a sturdy wooden frame.... The categories measured are : Concretistics(matching of specific relationships), Symbolic Transformation(judging relationships between two events), Quantitative Discriminations, Spatial Imagery, Genus Matching, Progression Discriminations, and Immediate Recall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

L'Échelle de Performance de Leiter [...] où la conception non verbale parvient à sa limite, les consignes verbales et gestuelles étant complètement supprimées et les réponses disponibles sous la forme de cartes qu'on peut ajuster sur un porte-cartes. Cette échelle s'applique aux enfants et jeunes gens de deux à dix-huit ans.

OBS

Même si le terme «échelle» est féminin, on dit «le» Leiter (test).

Spanish

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Record 3 1981-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Education
OBS

Wedell(1960a) in his study of cerebral palsied children, did not find that these made significantly more reversal or rotation errors on a visual discrimination task than his control group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éducation spéciale
OBS

S'il existe une discrimination visuelle des formes au niveau du visage, l'enfant n'en effectue pas pour autant une différenciation des visages des personnes qui vivent avec lui, et vers 2 ans il appelle encore "papa" un grand nombre de personnes.

Spanish

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