Adaptation of a paper presented at the annual convention of the American Speech and Hearing Association (Chicago, Illinois, 1969). (Author)

The ASSETS Program in Hawaii designed to provide services for learning disabled or educationally retarded children of military personnel is described. (RD)

Teaching techniques designed to overcome six types of behavioral problems are given along with supporting examples. (EJS)

Early childhood malnutrition affects the central nervous system which affects the mental processes. (NI)

Nonverbal signals during interaction among 37 learning disabled third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade boys with and without social/behavioral problems and among nondisabled boys were analyzed. Examination of videotapes revealed that only one of 31 nonverbal behaviors (body lean) differed significantly between the groups. (Author/CL)

Problems with the current definition of learning disabilities (LD) include its misinterpretation, failure to recognize the developmental nature of LD, and lack of statement about etiology. The definition offered by the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities is presented. (CL)

Complete and partial illustrations were found to exert a detrimental effect on the reading performance of 52 learning disabled students (grades two to four) but a beneficial effect on the performance of 24 normally achieving second graders. Findings provided indirect support for the selective attention hypothesis. (Author/CL)

References cited during 1979 and 1980 in five special education journals were reviewed, revealing information about nature and recency of sources (heavily reliant on journals), the top ten journal sources, stability of citation patterns (each journal tended to refer to a consistent pool of sources), and comparison to related fields. (CL)