Evaluated with a total of 89 parents was the effectiveness of a structured reporting format in guiding the parent teacher conference so that parents were able to acquire and/or maintain realistic expectations of their learning disabled children's abilities. The form included a section asking parents to explain their goals for the child, a section…

Examined with five preschool male children (1 year, 11 months to 2 years, 6 months old) was the effectiveness of a behaviorally oriented treatment program to reduce hyperactivity. Ss were enrolled in a behavior modification class which met for 2 hours per day, 3 days per week, and parents were enrolled in a parent training program. Among findings…

Intended as a guide for reviewing the literature on the study of exceptional children, this book presents the authors' contentions that exceptional children may be more clearly understood through a study of language development and that language growth and language development represent an important developmental area which separates these…

Provided is a rationale for geometric form drawing developed by Rudolf Steiner as a tool to develop motor coordination, perceptual skills, and cognition for mentally retarded and perceptually handicapped children. (Author/CL)

Investigated was the correlation between socioeconomic status, ethnic group membership, and neurological pathology in a random sample of 508 fourth- and fifth-grade children. (CL)

Four learning disabled children (6-9 years old) were taught four positive social-emotional behaviors--smiling, sharing, positive physical contacting, and verbal complimenting--using instructions, modelling, and praise. (Author)

For the purpose of developing a diagnostic and prescriptive program for children with learning problems in mathematics, task analysis is employed to develop a hierarchy of skills which identifies a terminal task and prerequisite skills. (Author/DB)

Describes the rationale and techniques of a therapy program designed to keep children with behavior and learning problems in regular classrooms for part of the school day. (BRT)

Classrooms for mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and average students were studied to identify which rules of formal logic teachers and students employ. Results indicated that teachers and students use extralogical reasoning significantly more often than formal logical rules. This was true for three grade levels and all…

The article examines characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of learning disabled adolescents from a clinical perspective. (PHR)