A program involving college psychology majors in the diagnosis and remediation of specific learning disabilities of children in an East Harlem elementary school is described. (Author/RM)

The effects of a visual distractor on vigilance task performance were examined in a sample of 35 learning disabled and 35 normal boys 8-12 years old. (Author/DB)

Braille should be considered as an alternative language for the severely learning disabled student as it is a ready-made language which uses a completely different pathway than that of auditory/visual input. (Author/DB)

A 6 1/2-year-old hyperactive boy was taught to reduce his muscular activity and tension through the use of electromyographic biofeedback for 11 sessions. (Author/DB)

To investigate the practicality of developing short forms of the Porch Index of Communicative Ability, the results from tests previously administered to 222 aphasic patients were analyzed. (Author/LS)

Recounted by the teacher are psychological and academic benefits realized by a class of low achieving children when they dictated and illustrated booklets and read them to other classes. (DB)

Ten functionally nonreading subjects were quickly taught letter-sound associations by an object-imaging-projecting method utilizing 26 actual objects found around the home, each object having a name whose beginning sound is a letter sound, and having a form very similar to the letter form. (Author/DB)

Although the label "learning disabled child" has no clear definition the child so labeled most probably needs to acquire language competency. (Author/CS)

This article focuses on attitudes towards difficulty in reading as a learning disability. (PB)

The spelling performance of four groups of 9th grade students who were Educable Mental Retardates (EMR), Disadvantaged (DIS), Language and/or Learning Disabled (L/LD), or Slow Learners (SL) was investigated. (Editor)

Article discussed the solution to the problem of answering the critical need for specialized services for children who were not successful in their academic life developed by the staff at Hoover Middle School in Albuquerque, N. M. (Author/RK)