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Bray, Laura; Skubik-Peplaski, Camille; Ackerman, Kera B. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2021
Handwriting and spelling deficits are common struggles experienced by children with specific learning disabilities (SLD), but there is little evidence on interventions that target these areas for children with SLD. To systematically review the research investigating the effectiveness of handwriting and spelling interventions for children with SLD.…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Intervention
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Rose, Helen S. – Children Today, 1974
Five children diagnosed as having a perceptual problem as revealed by the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test received special tutoring to help develop their visual discrimination abilities. The six-week program for teaching the concept of shapes employed kinesthetic, visual, tactile, and verbal processes. (CS)
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Perception Tests
de Hirsch, Katrina
The rationale of some current intervention projects that are designed to supply some environmental nurture (affective and cognitive) is discussed. Some major approaches used in these projects and problems related to early intervention are examined. Head Start and Montessori programs are omitted. Strategies utilized in the programs discussed…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Health Personnel, Intervention, Language Instruction
Stock, Claudette, Comp. – 1969
Remediation of learning disabilities is discussed and a table of teaching materials related to psychological and motor functions is provided. Guides on 11 behavioral manifestations and three specific learning disabilities furnish definitions and description as well as techniques for training and management. Behavioral manifestations considered…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Dyslexia, Exceptional Child Education, Instructional Materials
Mann, Marlis – 1972
This speech offers a guide to identifying and teaching high-risk children, those who exhibit a lag in development severe enough to be a handicap in learning. The high-risk children focused on are those whose developmental lag is frequently not recognized until they fail in school. The two major areas of neurodevelopmental learning disorders are in…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Curriculum Guides, Early Childhood Education, Handicapped Children
Bechtel, Leland P. – 1973
A 1 year preschool program and a summer elementary program in a model cities area southt to detect and remediate children's learning disabilities, and to evaluate remedial techniques. Thirty-three perceptually handicapped preschool children took a battery of eight tests, and daily received remediation through fine and gross motor training, and in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Diagnostic Teaching, Dyslexia, Elementary School Students
Sapir, Selma G., Ed.; Nitzburg, Ann C., Ed. – 1973
This comprehensive volume presents selected articles representing the major viewpoints on learning problems in children. Specialized practitioners in the fields of special education, psychology, psychiatry, and social work are encouraged to reject a narrow, limited perspective, and to view the child with a learning problem as a single, constantly…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Educational Diagnosis
Dusewicz, Russell A. – 1971
This final report of the Early Childhood Demonstration Program for the Disadvantaged, begun in October 1969 at the Learning Research Center of West Chester State College, West Chester, Pennsylvania, contains the evaluative results of 80 children enrolled since 1969. The aim of this compensatory program was to develop an infant education curriculum…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Compensatory Education
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Hamill, Janet S. – Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 1987
A plan is described for effective parent involvement in occupational therapy for the child with sensory integrative dysfunction. Consideration is given to levels of parent-child interaction and parents' ability to accept the child's difficulties. Purposes of parental participation are outlined and a model for evaluation and intervention is…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1968
Serving prekindergarten through grade 5, the project was designed to improve the educational performance of children with learning problems (without regard to categorical labels) and thus support the work of the classroom teacher in the child's normal school setting. Team screening processes were developed to identify preschool or school age…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Cooperative Programs, Coordination
NEWCOMB, DANIEL L., ED. – 1967
THE PROCEEDINGS FROM THE 1967 INTERNATIONAL CONVOCATION ON LEARNING DISABILITIES INCLUDE ARTICLES IN THREE AREAS--23 ON ETIOLOGY AND IDENTIFICATION, 14 ON EDUCATION, HABILITATION, AND REMEDIATION, AND 11 ON REHABILITATION AND INNOVATION. TOPICS INCLUDE LANGUAGE, READING AND COMMUNICATION DISABILITIES, BHEAVIOR, AUDITORY AND VISUAL PERCEPTION,…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis