Adults with learning disabilities (LD) face educational and employment challenges and may also have other disabilities and health conditions. Little is known about these adults' numeracy skills and how they use numeracy at work or home. The article's objective was to investigate numeracy skills and skill use for U.S. adults with LD. The author…

Under Part B of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" ("IDEA"), states must collect and examine data to determine whether significant disproportionality on the basis of race and ethnicity is occurring in the state, or its school districts, with respect to the identification, placement, and discipline of students…

These studies constituted attempts to determine whether and to what extent the problems exhibited by children with learning disabilities are due to dysfunction at the level of the cerebral hemispheres. (Author)

Investigated the ability of the Motor Free Test of Visual Perception Revised (MVPT-R) to differentiate between children with learning disabilities (n=38)and matched control children (n=38). Results showed that children with learning disabilities scored lower, with a significantly greater percentage scoring below the criterion cutoff than the…

Article sought to determine the usefulness of tests, such as the WRAT and the WISC, as screening tools to detect learning disabilities and to identify the variables that would determine whether patients screened for learning disorders could be grouped clinically according to the prominence of learning or emotional symptoms. (Author/RK)

Two studies investigated the differential effects of organizational cuing and strategy training on learning disabled (LD) adolescents, a group which, it has been suggested, is particularly insensitive to the effects of organizational cues. Participants for the first study included 37 LD and 50 nonhandicapped high school students who were randomly…

The spelling performance of four groups of 9th grade students who were Educable Mental Retardates (EMR), Disadvantaged (DIS), Language and/or Learning Disabled (L/LD), or Slow Learners (SL) was investigated. (Editor)

This study investigated the VADS test results for boys diagnosed as either emotionally disturbed or as having learning disabilities. Youngsters who fall into either of these two diagnostic categories tend to show poor achievement and have difficulty in school. (Author)

An evaluative study was carried out by the author to determine the effects of an art-based remediation program on the psycholinguistic abilities of twenty learning disabled children. (Author)

The validity of the School Function Assessment was tested with 29 children with disabilities, 18 with learning disabilities; and 17 with cerebral palsy. Discriminant analysis showed the instrument correctly classified a high percentage and should be considered a valid instrument for use in school settings. (Contains 31 references.) (JOW)

The fact that the children with learning disorders had significantly more abnormal reflexes than did the normal children lends empirical support to the theory of minimal neurological impairment as a factor in the etiology of learning disabilities. (Author)

Definitional problems surrounding the terms "hyperactivity" and "learning disabilities" cannot be fully resolved unless dimensions of behavior (intercorrelated core characteristics) can be independently identified that correspond in some way with these terms. This research utilizes a broad item pool supposedly related to learning disabilities and…

This study was designed to observe the effects of the helping relationship on both the dispenser and the beneficiary of the help. Specifically, learning disabled juveniles on probation tutored learning disabled youngsters to read within a summer school setting. (Author/RK)

Research supported by funds from the University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center, Ford Foundation, and the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Purpose of the study was to discover whether the characteristics of academically handicapped children could be more precisely identified and described, and to clarify further the causes and the familial patterns of learning disabilities. (Authors/MB)