Teaching suggestions are offered for teaching spelling to poor spellers strong in auditory processing skills but weak in visual processing skills. (Author/DB)

A gifted boy with a learning disability recounts the difficulties he had in school, the rejection of his peers, a suicide attempt in high school, and his eventual diagnosis with an auditory processing disorder and unipolar depression. Teachers are urged to notice students with similar problems and provide them with needed help. (DB)

This book describes the unique characteristics of visual-spatial learners and teaching techniques designed for this population. Following a quiz to identify visual-spatial learners, chapters address: (1) how visual-spatial learners think and the plight of being non-sequential; (2) the power of the right hemisphere, eye movement patterns, and…

This handbook may serve as a guide in helping teachers to identify children with learning disabilities. Hypothetical cases are presented, giving specific examples of academic and behavioral problems which may be caused by such learning disabilities as visual perceptual disorders, auditory perceptual disorders, motor disorders, orientation…

The four issues contain articles on the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities (LDs). Article titles and authors include: "Learning Disability Specialist Looks at Foreign Language Instruction" (Elissa Fisher); "Physician Questions Reliability of Central Auditory Processing Tests in Diagnosing LD" (Daniel Schwartz); "Educator Urges…