The Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA; 2004) permitted lack of students' response to intervention (RTI) to be considered as a basis for documenting specific learning disabilities (SLD). The previous method of detecting SLD, which relied on IQ and achievement testing, consequently is no longer mandatory.…

Objective/Method: The Conner's Continuous Performance Test (CPT) was administered to four groups of adult college students who self-referred for comprehensive psychoeducational evaluation and received either no diagnosis (n = 30) or a diagnosis of ADHD (n = 26), a psychiatric disorder (n = 17), or various cognitive deficits (n = 22). Results: The…

Reviewed are seven recent books on the various difficulties some children have in the development of normal language acquisition. (Editor/RY)

The Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery was administered to 41 learning disabled college students. A modified subtest profile was used to facilitate the examination of the pattern of subtest scores for the Cognitive Factor Cluster Scores. Results suggest examiners should carefully inspect subtest scores and not rely on cluster scores to…

The Adlerian approach to problems of social and school maladjustment is explained to be psychoeducational with the purpose of teaching, not treating. The case study of a 10-year-old boy thought to have emotional and learning problems is presented in depth. (CB)

The Learning and Diagnostic Centre provides the following services: a remedial clinic program, academic assessment and programing services, and an assessment unit. (DLS)

Organizations sometimes find themselves doing things they don't really choose due to: (1) action anxiety, (2) negative fantasies, (3) fear of separation, and (4) reversal of risk and certainty. Application is made to psychoeducational testing in the field of learning disabilities. (DB)

The number of adults with learning disabilities (LD) is difficult to estimate. They may comprise as many as 80% of adult basic education students, but a smaller proportion of students in other adult education settings. Many adults with LD exhibit strengths that enable them to compensate for their disabilities and perform successfully without…

This study, by comparing for learning disabled and control children parental frequency rating of physical punishment and of completion of tasks, hypothesized that parental indulgence is associated with learning disorders. Referral children with learning problems (N=18), were rated significantly lower on both measures that students referred for…

Following the treatment the experimental Ss showed a significant increase in response time and made significantly fewer errors compared to a similar control group. Treatment effects were still evident one month after treatment terminated. (DB)

Cases are presented to illustrate the effects of these dysfunctional attitudes and therapeutic approaches toward them. Cognitive, behavioral, and dynamically oriented interventions are presented which have been effective when a child's difficulties result from his acting in accordance with the family's attitude toward learning. (Author)

The use of counseling strategies and psychoeducational techniques such as those advocated by Bricklin and Adamson can improve communication and increase understanding between parents and their learning disabled child. These model counseling approaches are presented. (Author)

Examined differences in written expression between learning-disabled and nondisabled middle school students matched by grade and sex, using eight curriculum-based measures. All of learning-disabled students had been identified as having written language deficits. Nondisabled students showed superior written expression skills, especially on…

Given the latest reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and evolving views on the identification of cognitive disabilities in special education, many high school graduates with learning disabilities and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder will have a Summary of Performance (SOP) in lieu of a recent…