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• Within the past decade, investigators have emphasized the contribution of weaknesses in higher-order cognitive functions (i.e., thinking and reasoning processes - memory) to the school failure of many learning-disabled children.

• Children with deficits in such "metacognitive" skills (i.e., being able to access acquired knowledge when needed, knowing how to apply learned skills)
  • Unable to focus their attention on the salient features of tasks
  • Cannot effectively devise strategies.
    • Such children have been described as "passive" learners.

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