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Algozzine, Bob; Schmid, Rex; Conners, Bob – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Most definitions of emotionally disturbed youngsters suggest that disturbances in the child's behavior patterns cause academic and social problems which affect the child and his peers. While the process of identification may be facilitated by operational criteria within a definition, these factors are noticeably absent from definitions of…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Child Behavior, Social Problems
Feuerstein, Reuven; Falik, Louis H.; Feuerstein, Rafael S. – Teachers College Press, 2015
Decades before educators began to draw teaching and learning implications from neuroscientists' groundbreaking findings on brain plasticity, Reuven Feuerstein had already theorized it and developed practices for teaching and developing higher-level cognition and learning for all students, including those with Down syndrome and other learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Schemata (Cognition), Academic Achievement
Raschke, Donna; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1985
A concealed video camera can record learning disabled students' behavior and provide a nonjudgmental way for them to see how they appear to others. Such an approach can include a positive emphasis on redirecting energy as well. (CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Learning Disabilities
Strosnider, Kim – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
In a speech, Boston University (Massachusetts) president Jon Westling used "Somnolent Samantha" as an example of potential for student abuse of identification as learning disabled. Because Samantha was fictitious, 10 students have sued the university, charging Westling with holding an unfair view of students with learning disabilities.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Cheating, College Presidents
Kupperman, Phyllis; Bligh, Sally; Barouski, Kathy – 1992
This paper addresses the different characteristics of children with hyperlexia, high functioning autism, and Asperger's Syndrome. It describes the pattern of development of 20 children with the characteristics of hyperlexia (precocious reading development and disordered language acquisition, accompanied with concomitant social and behavioral…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The teacher inservice program described here is intended to familiarize the participant with the behavioral and learning characteristics of classroom children who have specific learning disabilities. Subjects covered include visual and auditory perception and learning; remediation of specific language, reading, and writing problems; and motor and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Beck, Ray – 1976
The booklet describes a precision teaching program for the remediation of children with learning deficits in grades K-12 which enables the teacher to use an accurate means of describing and measuring performance on a direct and daily basis and provides a behavioral formula for programing and analyzing social and academic behavior, interpreting…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Charts, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Blankenship, M. Elise; And Others – School Library Media Quarterly, 1989
Describes some academic and social behaviors typical of learning disabled students and suggests ideas for developing and modifying lessons appropriate to students' needs. The characteristics of folk and fairy tales that offer valuable literary opportunities for learning disabled students are discussed and methods for helping students deal with the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Books, Elementary Secondary Education, Fairy Tales