Academic self-concept as measured by the Student's Perception of Ability Scale (SPAS) was compared for 81 learning disabled and 81 normally-achieving control children. The results show that learning disabled children hold more negative self-perceptions of ability in reading, spelling, and arithmetic than do controls. (Author)

The two "unmailed" letters present a controversial perspective to the current popularity of the classification of learning disabilities. (SBH)

The article focuses on a program for remedial handwriting instruction in which the student diagnoses which letters on his/her worksheet are incorrectly formed, relieving the teacher of the need for constant attention and helping to avoid repetitive mispractice.

In response to S. A. Cohen's paper on research problems in learning disabilities, the author suggests that ecological methods are equally valid scientifically as experimental methods if the problem is well conceptualized. (DB)

In response to S. A. Cohen's paper on research problems in learning disabilities, the author agrees that there has been too much ex post facto correlational research and reliance on etiological labels but emphasizes that not enough attention has been paid to the formulation of sound theory underlying research hypotheses. (DB)

Differentiated are children with mental regress learning deficiency characterized by poor capacity to mentally reorder events and children with poor memory. (DB)

Compared was the incidence of lateral phoria, a tendency for the eyes to turn in or out, in 45 elementary grade learning disabled children and 364 children in regular elementary education classes. (DB)

Parents of learning disabled children can be an essential adjunct to educational programs if they are taught what a learning disability is, how to incorporate structure into everyday living, consistent behavior management, and ways to help children solve problems and learn new material. (DB)

All available suicide notes (N=27) from 267 consecutive adolescent suicides were analyzed for spelling and handwriting errors and then dictated to adolescents with and without LD. Results indicated that 89% of the 27 adolescents who had committed suicide had significant deficits in spelling and handwriting similar to those of other adolescents…

Describes use of poetry therapy with small groups of adolescents in a private high school for students with learning disabilities. Describes the five tasks (one per week), shares some of the narrative poems written by students, and discusses student reactions. Finds that this was an effective method of facilitating students' identification of…

Relates Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) with anecdotes of learning-disabled students in primary grades. Message of CGI is that when teachers begin listening to children, they realize how much more students know than they recognized previously. Teachers can achieve goals of compensatory mathematics education by building on this knowledge. (SKS)

Investigates long-term stability of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) for children with specific learning disability (SLD), serious emotional disability (SED), and mental retardation (MR). There were no differential effects of disability groups on long-term stability coefficients. Stability coefficients for Full…