This study investigated the effect of an eight-step cognitive strategy on verbal math problem solving performance of six learning disabled adolescents. The cognitive strategy was designed to enable students to read, understand, carry out, and check verbal math problems that are encountered in the general math curriculum at the secondary level. Conditions of the multiple baseline desing included baseline, treatment, generalization, maintenance, and retraining. During treatment, students received strategy acquisition training, strategy application practice, and testing. Visual analysis of the data indicated this eight-step cognitive strategy to be an effective intervention for this sample of students who had deficits in verbal math problem solving. Overall, the students demonstrated impoved performance on twostep verbal math problems. Maintenance and generalization of the strategy were evident. This study has implications for an alternative teaching methodology that focuses on cognitive strategy training to improve the verbal math problem solving of learning disabled students.
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