A task sequence is presented for teaching mentally retarded or learning disabled children to tell time. (CL)

A resource teacher describes a word imprinting technique which helped to increase reading and memory skills of an 8-year-old student with auditory perception problems. (CL)

Explained is a step-by-step approach for using chalkboard exercises to teach cursive writing to elementary level learning disabled students. (CL)

Techniques used to teach a class of seven- and eight-year-old learning-disabled students to tell time are described. Students first practiced counting by 1s and 5s around a clock with no hands before being introduced to the differing functions of the minute and hour hands. (VW)

Approaches to working with learning disabled students who are also gifted, talented, or creative are illustrated in the example of a secondary student with special abilities in photography. Several of his photographs and accompanying narratives are included. (CL)

Predictable books--those that use repetitive, cumulative, or familiar sequences--can be effectively used in individual and group instruction with learning disabled students. (CL)

The cognitive approach to education is briefly summarized, and its implications for learning disabilities considered. The approach, which includes the genetic epistemology espoused by J. Piaget and information processing theory, proposes the importance of active involvement and control processes. (CL)

Described is a four step method of teaching remedial handwriting which encourages the progressive approximation of writing to a good model and avoids common instructional errors such as unsupervised massed practice, lack of immediate feedback, and failure to provide good models. (DB)

The authors apply the statement-pie approach (in which the reader is trained to look for the two major categories of concepts--the statement or major topic of the passage, and the information which supports the statement) to the teaching of reading and writing skills to elementary level mildly handicapped students. (SB)

A procedure involving repeated readings of the same passage combined with the programing evaluation procedure caused 16 learning-disabled secondary students' reading attitudes to change significantly. Feedback to the student was provided by charting the record of faster times and number of word errors. (SBH)

A program designed to teach cognitive strategies through logical problem-solving and developed for elementary learning disabled students is presented. For each problem set, the instructional procedure involves a discovery activity, discussion, conclusion, follow-up activities, and integration. Five samples of the program's problem sets (e.g.,…