A new approach to follow-up support, the "SOS" tapes were given to 57 first-year learning disabilities teachers with the instruction to record problems and wait for responses. (PHR)

Health educators are warned not to overlook the relationships among the academic, emotional, and social problems of a learning disability. (MM)

The author offers guidelines to professionals for helping parents provide tutorial instruction to learning disabled children. Among suggestions outlined are a positive learning situation, short teaching sessions, feedback for work well done, and personalized learning activities. (SBH)

Presents a checklist to help teachers identify learning disabled children, and describes a child development program which deals effectively with such learning problems. (CM)

In the interview, the president of the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities (ACLD) discusses the organization's present activities and future directions. (CL)

The authors respond to their colleagues' critiques of a self-control curriculum for students with learning or emotional disorders. (SBH)

Two experiments investigated the development of verbal rehearsal strategies and selective attention in learning disabled children. In Experiment 1, Hagen's Central-Incidental task was administered to younger learning disabled and normal boys. In Experiment 2 the task was given to intermediate and older boys along with an experimentally induced…

In response to S. A. Cohen's paper on research problems in learning disabilities the author agrees on the need for better definitions and more experimental studies (rather than ex post facto correlational studies) but suggests that subgroups within the broad classification of learning disabilities be identified for research and instructional…

In response to S. A. Cohen's paper on research problems in learning disabilities, the author supports an eclectic attitude toward research advocating the utilization of both theory and experimentation. (DB)

In answer to R. Allington's criticism of the Jordan Left-Right Reversal Test (JLRRT), the author contends that Allington's research used an outdated version of the JLRRT, that Allington's research into the relationship of visual reversals to reading skills does not reflect on the validity of the test to measure reversals. (DB)

Reported is the case study of a boy with severe auditory dyslexia who received remedial treatment from the age of four and progressed through courses at a technical college and a 3-year apprenticeship course in mechanics by the age of eighteen. (IM)

Physical education majors find that working with handicapped children is a rewarding teaching experience. (JD)

Examined imitation and pantomime abilities in 17 high-functioning adolescents with autism and in 15 comparison subjects with dyslexia or other learning disorders, matched on chronological age and verbal IQ. Found no support for the symbolic deficit hypothesis; meaning aided, rather than hindered, the performance of the group with autism. (MDM)

Comparison of twins (40 identical and 23 fraternal) for mathematics deficits (MD), in which at least one member had a mathematics disability, found evidence for a significant genetic etiology. However, tests for the differential etiology of MD as a function of reading performance level were nonsignificant. (Author/DB)