Offered for teachers who are overwhelmed by the task of selecting specific details from referral information for application with the learning disabled child is an analysis of prescriptive teaching for early childhood. Prescriptive teaching is described in terms of utilizing diagnostic information by modifying the educational program and…

Hypotheses accounting for the pattern of deficits in specific developmental dyslexia were examined. The theory postulates that the disorder reflects a lag in maturation of the central nervous system, particularly the left cerebral hemisphere. The hypotheses in question predicted that skills developing ontogenetically earlier (visual-motor and…

The selected bibliography of reading methods and problems contains an explanation of indexing and approximately 100 abstracts to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of August, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of availability…

This series of nine articles on dyslexia, or specific language disability, originally appeared in the Baltimore "Evening Sun" in response to increasing public interest regarding reading disabilities and handicaps. These articles summarize the methods of identifying and teaching these children and discuss the school's common failure to identify and…

The report describes the operation of various programs and parts of programs for the learning disabled (minimally brain damaged) child in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Covered are student characteristics, special class services available, supportive services (psychiatric, language development, vision, and sensory-motor activity services), and…

Evaluated was the effect on standardized test scores of allowing six 4th grade learning disabled children to have a helper fill in the machine scored answer grid according to the child's verbal answers to the test questions. (Author/DB)

In order to determine if the syntactic complexity of written mathematical problems influenced students' abilities to solve problems, 45 eighth-grade remedial math students were studied. (PHR)

The paper focuses on the importance and relevance of measuring the remedial progress of any learning disabled student. (Author)

In order to determine whether tactile perception is a useful predictor of academic performance, 50 control and 42 brain impaired (epileptic) children (ages 9-14 years) were examined. (Author/PHR)

Arguments are presented suggesting that single-subject research designs can form a basis for establishing a working relationship between researchers and clinicians in the field of learning disabilities. (Author/PHR)

The article offers advice to special education teachers when they are consulted by regular teachers on learning and behavior problems. (PHR)

The performance of 27 inadequate and 30 adequate readers in the third grade was compared on a dichotic listening task involving conflicting pairs of nonsense syllables. (Author/CL)

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)

Current diagnostic and labeling practices were studied with 26 children with learning disabilities and other learning handicaps. (Author/DLS)

Intended for the classroom teacher, the article offers suggestions for dealing with the child who has a learning disability in mathematics. (SBH)