The article describes a beginning reading program that was planned and implemented by an interdisciplinary team for 14 first-grade language-handicapped children. (DLS)

The Learning Disabilities Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University, was organized as five task forces, conducting research in specific areas: memory and study skills, problems in learning basic skills (arithmetic, reading, and spelling, and reading comprehension, (from the perspectives of interaction of text and reader and of semantics…

Describes the five learning disability research centers that make up the collaborative research network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Highlights the teams and focus of the centers, and identifies the findings of the centers and issues that need to be examined. (CR)

An attempt was made to modify the attending, on-task behavior of hyperkinetic children in a naturalistic school setting. The boys were taught how to "pay attention." The procedures utilized were based on previous research findings regarding the performance of hyperkinetics on a vigilance monitoring task. (Author)

Discusses the need to incorporate a sociocultural perspective into the design and reporting of inclusion research, thereby broadening the range of student and contextual variables considered and reported. A sociocultural framework and list of variables is proposed and applied to a sample of learning disabilities inclusion studies. (Author/CR)

The report describes ASSIST, a teacher-controlled computer assisted instruction (CAI) system in special education. Field tested with aporoximately 200 handicapped elementary and junior high students (educable mentally retarded, educationally handicapped, learning disabled, and oral language handicapped). Results are said to demonstrate that such a…