COMPARISON OF THE KINESTHETIC MEMORY OF LEARNING DISABLED AND NON - LEARNING DISABLED CHILDREN. NEGRON DE BAEZ, ROSA M.The University of Toledo, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1982. 8307710.

Learning disabled children may have difficulty learning motor skills and are often ineffective in their play with peers. Appropriate motor responses depend on the proper integration of sensory input with past experience already found in the memory storage. Apparently rehearsal is needed to successfully code the information and storage in memory. Fifty-seven subjects were used to compare the kinesthetic memory of LD and NLD children 7, 9 and 11 years of age during a linear positioning task requiring the use of mnemonic strategies. LD children recalled the end location of a limb as accurately as NLD children until interference was produced by an interpolated task. Teaching of mnemonic strategies and organization may assist both LD and NLD children in the acquisition and performance of a kinesthetic task, but interpolated tasks involving the same muscle group interfered with the storage of information in kinesthetic memory. More research should be performed to investigate the difference between LD and NLD in kinesthetic memory and to determine what type of mnemonic strategies are employed in kinesthetic memory.