There is need for early group assessment aimed at prevention of learning disorders, specifically reading disorders. An estimated 15% of elementary and secondary school students are reported to be handicapped in the area of reading. Early screening and matching of the learning ability of children with instructional programs holds promise to…

One hundred black children in two all-black elementary schools in rural Florida were taught reading by a method described as Differentiated, Oral, Visual, Aural, Computerized, Kinesthetic (DOVACK). The children dictated their own stories in their own Afro-American dialect on dictaphone belts. A computer furnished printouts of the stories for the…

Sources are cited dealing with the following handicaps concomitant with visual impairment: hearing impairment, physical handicaps, mental retardation, speech impairment, educational handicaps, and emotional disturbance. Additional items on the multiply handicapped visually impaired cover vocational rehabilitation. Teacher resources in both medical…

The need for experts from related disciplines to aid in learning diagnosis and prognosis is discussed. While support for a multi-causation theory of reading disability has been general for many years, it has not led to action, as reflected in the lack of an interdisciplinary approach to learning disabilities in many schools, reading centers, and…

The theme of the conference, "Personalization--Individualization for Learning," focused attention upon children as persons who are individuals functioning in the school setting. Don Dinkmeyer in his talk "Elementary School Guidance and the Classroom Teacher," discusses the role of the teacher in promoting growth in the self concepts of his…

A listing of 139 abstracts and descriptive terms is concerned with research and program developments in the area of learning disabilities. Among the topics covered are diagnosis, teaching methods, physical aspects, perceptual problems, and treatment procedures. Included are subject and author indexes, user information, and ordering procedures for…

Three hundred and sixty-nine reports of reading research published between July 1, 1972, and June 30, 1973, are summarized for educators and researchers. The research studies are categorized into six main areas, four of which have been further subcategorized. The majority of studies reported were classified into two of the six major categories,…

Intended for parents, the handbook describes characteristics of learning disabled (LD) children and offers activities that the child can perform in the home to build skill proficiency. It is explained that the activities are designed to relieve the parent and child of constant awareness of the disability, to avoid use of special materials and…

The objective of this study was to develop a low-cost predictive and observational tool for the early detection of disturbed children and the prevention of childhood mental illness. A self-administered questionnaire with approximately 30 items was filled out by parents concerning their children before the child entered nursery school. Following…

This study sought to determine whether the de Hirsch Predictive Index Tests would accurately identify children who were potential failures in school. The study also investigated whether a perceptual-motor and oral language program would aid those children identified as potential failures. The Predictive Index Tests were administered to 645 first…

A 3-year program for early identification and remediation of perceptual deficiencies to prevent or minimize learning disabilities was conducted with two successive kindergarten classes. The 1967 class received intensive training for 3 years, while the 1968 class received intensive training for 2 years. Comparison of pre and posttest data for…

The guide is intended to familiarize primary grade teachers with the special learning characteristics of students with a high risk for a learning disability (those who are beginning to show an inability to work with symbols or to think abstractly) and to assist the teachers in the diagnosis of the specific nature of their learning problems.…

This research investigated temporal ordering acuity in children, or the ability to perceive the first of an ordered pair of lights, or of a combined light and tone, when the interstimulus time interval within each pair became increasingly short in duration. Two group-related comparisons were made: (1) differences between slow-maturing and average…

The first of a four-part bibliography on young children with handicaps deals with emotional disturbance and specific learning disabilities. Citations were taken from "Research in Education" (January 1969--December 1972), the "Current Index to Journals in Education (January 1969--November 1972), and "Exceptional Child Education Abstracts." Most…

Rules were established, improved behavior was rewarded, and undesirable behavior was ignored to change disruptive classroom behavior of 25 slow learning 10-year-olds and 13 controls in a classroom setting. Experimental teachers were instructed in application of behavior modification principles. Burk's Behaviour Rating Scale (included) was used to…