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Early ID

Early ID Selective Perception or Perceptive Selection? Barbara K. Keogh c ONSIDERATION of screening techniques for early identi- fication of children with learning-problems is both timely and critical. The enthusiastic endorsement of the concept of early identification as a preventive strategy for working with children with learning disabilities has led to widespread implementation of a variety of screening methods or systems. Yet review of a num- ber of these screening efforts suggests that there is often little solid evidence to support use of the techniques, and that children may be identified as “at risk” on the basis of fragmentary and se- lective test findings. It might be argued that our perception of risk is influenced strongly or even determined by the nature of the screening system employed. We see what we are set to see; unfortunately, sometimes we see only what we want to see. Although the classic studies of selective perception were primarily in the province of the Gestalt psychologists, examples abound in everyday life. Scan a page filled with print and your name “jumps out” at you, even though embedded two-thirds of the way down the page. Ask three individuals to describe the same event and you will get http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Academic Therapy SAGE

Early ID

Keogh, Barbara K.
Academic Therapy , Volume 12 (3): 8 – Jan 1, 1977
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Selective Perception or Perceptive Selection? Barbara K. Keogh c ONSIDERATION of screening techniques for early identi- fication of children with learning-problems is both timely and critical. The enthusiastic endorsement of the concept of early identification as a preventive strategy for working with children with learning disabilities has led to widespread implementation of a variety of screening methods or systems. Yet review of a num- ber of these screening efforts suggests that there is often little solid evidence to support use of the techniques, and that children may be identified as “at risk” on the basis of fragmentary and se- lective test findings. It might be argued that our perception of risk is influenced strongly or even determined by the nature of the screening system employed. We see what we are set to see; unfortunately, sometimes we see only what we want to see. Although the classic studies of selective perception were primarily in the province of the Gestalt psychologists, examples abound in everyday life. Scan a page filled with print and your name “jumps out” at you, even though embedded two-thirds of the way down the page. Ask three individuals to describe the same event and you will get

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Published: Jan 1, 1977

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