In two studies, 16 learning disabled elementary-aged boys receiving electromyographs for biofeedback muscle relaxation training showed significant improvement over controls on a variety of measures, including reading, spelling, verbal IQ, eye-hand coordination, and handwriting. (CL)

A series of studies examined the effects of biofeedback and relaxation on performance of learning disabled (LD) students. In study 1, 114 LD students received a randomly assigned treatment combination twice a week for 6 weeks. Four individual treatment components included electromyographic biofeedback monitoring, handwriting practice, prerecorded…