A comparison of 11 reading disabled and 11 normal children's (mean age 9 years) responses to a conditional discrimination learning set (LS) task was undertaken. The results indicated that normal children are more adept at solving the LS task than the reading disabled children. (Author/CL)

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) protocols of 55 children (5 to 17 years old) referred for academic problems were examined using a factor-score approach in terms of clusters of subtests hypothesized to reflect functional differences in learning styles. (Author/SBH)

The article reports on an intervention procedure designed to initiate reading in a ten-year-old mentally retarded girl assessed as a 'zero reader'. (PHR)

Results showed that the adolescents with internal locus of control performed significantly better in the low structure reinforcement condition, while the adolescents with external locus of control performed significantly better in the high structure reinforcement condition. (Author)

Direct daily measurement of students' performance was used as an independent variable to determine its effect on the learning of six primary level learning disabled children. (Author/DB)

To explore relationships between success in school and infectious childhood disease, 25 children in regular primary grades who had survived laboratory confirmed acute bacterial meningitis prior to 4 years of age without observable sequelae were matched with 25 non-meningitic controls and subjected to intensive multidisciplinary examinations.…