Visual and Verbal Metaphoric Competence in Children with and without Learning Disabilities

The purpose of this study was to compare visual and verbal metaphor comprehension in children with and without learning disabilities. This study was conducted using a comparison. Samples of this study included were 20 children with and 20childern without learning disabilities , Which were selected by multistage random cluster sampling. Tools used include a the Metaphor Triads Task
(MTT ), Metaphors (verbal) and Raven's Progressive Matrices test . The data obtained were analyzed by analysis of variance a variable(MANOVA). The results showed that in verbal Metaphor comprehension there are significant differences in two groups (P