The study examined predictors of educational placement using the Personality Inventory for Children with 55 children previously identified as either learning disabled or nonhandicapped. Leading student characteristics predicting placement were (1) achievement; (2) adjustment; and (3) social incompetence, depression, defensiveness. (Author/DB)

Teachers of the learning disabled (N=150) reported that major identification criteria in recent learning disability (LD) placements were intraindividual variability, achievement-potential discrepancy, below grade level academic achievement, and exclusion of other handicapping conditions. Teachers serving only LD students reported more emphasis on…