A new approach in teaching long division, based on a theoretical model of how the brain functions in problem solving, was presented to a group of five mentally ill adolescents who were previously unable to learn long division. (Author)

The effectiveness of two teaching procedures--antecedent and contingent modeling--in teaching basic sight vocabulary to learning disabled children was tested with two primary-school-age boys with severe reading disabilities. (Author/DLS)

Ten functionally nonreading subjects were quickly taught letter-sound associations by an object-imaging-projecting method utilizing 26 actual objects found around the home, each object having a name whose beginning sound is a letter sound, and having a form very similar to the letter form. (Author/DB)

Alternative teaching approaches, including the use of multisensory teaching, were studied with 40 first-grade children, 20 identified as "at risk" for learning problems and 20 control Ss. Results showed that the experimental group had significantly more gains in all areas tested than the control group. (PHR)

The effect of focused or preorganized instruction on the mental operations of 64 learning disabled (LD) children (8 to 12 years old) was examined. Results indicated focused instruction had a positive effect on cognitive functioning. (Author)

Fifty-one learning disabled elementary students received reading instruction with a braille phonics approach. (CL)

Compared were the visual-emphasis, auditory-phonic, kinesthetic, and Orton-Gillingham methods of remedial reading which were used singly with four groups of third graders (for a total of 136 students). (Author/MC)

Cited is research which indicates that ocular motor abnormalities in children with reading difficulties are factors in the processing of visual information. (CL)

The effects of the teacher directed language training approach of C. Bereiter and S. Engelmann and the child centered language training approach of M. Blank were experimentally investigated with descriptor words and functor words in four children, aged four to five, whose language was deficient in these parts of speech. (Author/SBH)

Fifteen Chinese ideographs were successfully taught to 7 first grade American children having great difficulty learning to read English by the phonemic approach. (Author/DB)

The study examined the effectiveness of the Neurological Impress Method--NIM (in which reading skills are taught by having student and teacher read aloud in unison) for 44 learning disabled third, fourth, and fifth graders. (SBH)

To test the effects of selective attention on decoding skills, 23 children (grades 2 through 6) with learning disabilities were studied. Results showed that treatment directly improved the ability of the experimental groups to transfer spelling patterns learned in isolation to unknown words containing those patterns and improved the ability of Ss…

The paper reviewed 15 studies investigating the interaction between perceptual modality preference and method of teaching reading. (Author)