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Download full textSpecific Learning Difficulties Association of Victoria (Australia). – 1970
Presented are five papers given at a 1970 seminar on reading difficulty and the intelligent underachiever. In the first paper, Dr. T. D. Hagger discusses the concept of specific learning disabilities and stresses the trend to search for causation in organic factors within the child, the importance of early identification, and the need for…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Etiology, Exceptional Child Education, Identification
Rawson, Margaret Byrd, Ed. – Bulletin of the Orton Society, 1975
This silver anniversary issue contains papers from the World Congress on Dyslexia held in November 1974, as well as two case studies and reviews of books related to the study, treatment, or prevention of problems of specific language disability. Papers include discussions of 50 years of experience with dyslexia; prediction and prevention of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1973
The essays in this book reflect some of the major ideas discussed at the Claremont Reading Conference of 1973. Included are such essays as "Reading as Second Language Learning" by Susan Ervin-Tripp, "Feminine Subculture and Female Mind" by Nancy Reeves, "The Home Language of Chicanos as a Medium of Instruction" by Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, "From…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Eyes
Zollinger, Ruth H., Ed.; Klein, Nancy K., Ed. – 1975
Presented are six papers originally delivered at a colloquium series on the problems of the learning disabled child, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary perspective. In "One Psychologist's Perspective on Learning Disabilities," J. Kessler provides an overview of the field with sections on definition and identification, etiology, testing as a…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1977
The articles in this collection approach the question of what is fundamental in reading in a variety of ways. The topics covered in the 30 articles include the following: teaching and learning, structural imagination and professional staff development, Zen and the art of reading, learning and learning disabilities, Piaget and Hamlet, the political…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1978
The 28 articles in this collection focus on the theme, "reading for life." The topics covered include the following: language and logic, theories of language development and their implications for teaching the language-disordered child, reading difficulties, developing literacy in the primary grades, peer and cross age tutoring, reading…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
