Two 8-year-old boys, who read 1.7 and 1.5 years below grade level respectively, participated in a program to accelerate their learning rates. Ss' reading levels were incorporated into a 6-year minimum objectives graphing system, and their progress was recorded every 18 days. The program involved daily work from the Ginn 100 Readers, with…

The proceedings report papers, discussions, and other institute activities. Included are papers by Bonnie Kirkham on the classroom observation, via film, of emotionally disturbed children; Pearl Breslow on the translation of clinical findings into everyday classroom planning; and Gerri Bradley on the role of language and language therapy in the…

Previous approaches to the learning problems of American Indian children are viewed as inadequate. An alternative is suggested which emphasizes the problem solution strategies which these children bring to the school situation. Solutions were analyzed in terms of: (1) their probability; (2) their efficiency at permitting a present problem to be…

Following suggestions by the editors on how to evaluate their selections are 49 articles on research and on programs and procedures in remedial and corrective education. Papers included treat the following topics: problems of underachievement, correlates of learning disability, approaches to the diagnosis of learning problems, approaches to…

A scheme is presented for the development of perception and learning in which a hierarchy of skills begins with innate response systems and progresses through gross motor activities to more specialized motor systems represented by eye-hand coordination. The next stage of development, the control of ocular muscles, is discussed and the development…

The bibliography contains a variety of subject matter focusing on, but not necessarily limited to, the topic of learning disabilities. Included are 351 articles dating from 1959 to 1968, 148 books ranging from 1926 to 1968, 60 booklets from 1956 to 1968, 37 testing materials dating from 1955 to 1967, 42 catalogs from 1967 to 1968, 36 video tapes,…

The report describes a special 2-year early oral language intervention program designed by a Wisconsin public school system to develop life-oriented, auditory-vocal language skills in language delayed children. Explained are administrative aspects of the program including evolution of the speech and language disabilities department (1940-74), and…

The Demonstration Center for Language Handicapped (LH) Children is described as a project, executed in two Texas public schools between 1971 and 1973, which evaluated the following three treatment approaches to LH students: regular classroom placement and provision of inservice training and appropriate materials to the regular teacher; regular…

Described is a project in which 60 educable mentally handicapped (EMH) and 30 educationally Handicapped (EH) students were placed in regular classes and provided with individually prescribed programs based on daily assessment and prescription by a resource teacher. Information is provided on the California school district implementing the project…

Described is a graduate interdisciplinary seminar held at the University of South Florida from September 1972 through June 1973 on the prevention of learning and behavior problems in young children. Faculty members from the areas of anthropology, guidance, special education, early childhood, and linguistics led presentations and discussions on…

The resource manual describes procedures for replication of a 1 year Prescriptive Teaching Workshop project, a Title III educational program designed to maintain the learning disabled elementary school child in the regular classroom with additional special workshop help in order to raise his academic achievement. Evaluation of the student is by a…

Tasks involved in paired associate learning (attention, perceptual learning, visual and auditory memory, response learning, and stimulus-response connections) are identified as some of the same skills and strategies involved in learning to read. Two studies on visual memory, the developmental lag hypothesis, and reading ability are examined to…

A twenty-six-month follow-up study was made of 75 Anglo- and Spanish-American primary school children who were examined on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, and the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test in order to determine the specific cognitive deficits which might account for the poor…

The document provides an overview of learning disabilities and described are various approaches to the detection and prevention of these handicapping conditions. Discussed in the introduction are definitions of learning disorders, the multiple nature of the handicap, and maturational lag as a cause. A section on clinical approaches covers research…

Intended to be used as the basis for a brief inservice workshop, the auditory discrimination/listening skills packet provides information on ideas, materials, and resources for remediating auditory discrimination and listening skill deficits. Included are a sample prescription form, tests of auditory discrimination, and a list of auditory…