The article proposes a simplified handwriting method for learning disabled children having difficulty with conventional cursive writing. The approach is based on the vertical downstroke rather than the diagonal slant and emphasizes the natural connection between manuscript letters. (Author/CL)

The article analyzes the stages of study in terms of skills needed at each phase. Specific ways to modify instructional activities and to develop study procedures in learning disabled students are presented. (Author/DB)

The author describes an approach to helping dyslexic children by making the learning situation as painless as possible and helping students accept responsibility for more careful scrutiny and accurate decoding. (CL)

The article outlines appropriate topics in understanding money for primary and middle school students with learning disabilities. The integration of such study with other subjects and with other components of the mathematics curriculum is noted. (CL)

The use of instructional expedients, practices (such as grading) that are distinct from learning objectives but help to implement those objectives, is discussed, particularly as it relates to language instruction. (SBH)

Intrinsic approaches to student motivations are discussed and contrasted with the traditional behaviorist approach to motivating special education students. Research implications regarding ownership and choice are considered. (Author/CL)

The article examines two topics important to educators working with learning disabled college writers: error patterns of college learning disabled, normal, and basic writers across different tasks and instructional approaches successful in improvng the written language skills of college learning disabled writers, such as sentence combining and…

For learning handicapped children with impaired language associations, patterns, and expressions, this paper summarizes relevant linguistic research and instructional strategies. Linguistic auditory memory pattern exercises and examples are then presented as an integrated multisensory approach which has been found useful by special educators.…

In Part 2 of a two-part article individual educational program objectives are applied to nonverbal communication areas as follows: proxemics, or the use of distance, spatial arrangements, and territories; vocalics, or the use of prosodic, paralinguistic, or nonlinguistic features; and artifactual cues involving clothing and cosmetics. (Author/SBH)

The authors describe the results from a study using sign language and the manual alphabet to improve spelling skills of learning disabled second graders. (SBH)

The paper describes an instructional material evaluation model that is based on R. Mager's approach to task analysis and may be applied to the selection of materials for learning disabled children. Procedures for listing specific objectives are reviewed, and steps for using the model to evaluate materials are presented. (SBH)

The manual alphabet was used as an adjunct to a linguistic reading system to achieve the following goals with primary grade learning disabled children: (1) ensure attention, (2) reinforce the learning of phonemes, (3) guide the student if he had difficulties, (4) introduce prefixes and suffixes, and (5) provide the child with an independent…

The article explains the Grunes interview procedure, in which drawings of people significant to the interviewee are used, along with a series of 91 questions which all begin "Which one...", to facilitate conventional diagnostic interviews with children who cannot communicate verbally. (PHR)

A method for collecting data on students which was developed in a learning disabilities resource room project is presented as a way to determine objective progress in areas that are more difficult to measure informally. Sample grids for recording data are included. (SBH)

The influence of the classroom teacher reading orally before the child reads was investigated using as Ss three learning disabled children (8-and-12-years-old). (Author/PHR)