Designing and building a hockey table offered upper school students at Ashbourne School in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, vocational and academic instruction, opportunities to channel aggressive and sexual impulses, experiences that enhanced self-image, healthy peer relationships, and opportunities for individual initiative and involvement. (JG)

Though labeling often is correctly condemned as reductionism, sometimes naming a disability assists the affected person by explaining unusual behavior and facilitating acceptance and remediation of it. (JG)

Two responses to the Federal definition of learning disability in the proposed regulations for Public Law 94-142 are presented. (CL)

A task sequence is presented for teaching mentally retarded or learning disabled children to tell time. (CL)

Among six reasons cited for advocating caution in mainstreaming learning disabled students are lowered self concepts in mainstreamed students due to competition with their normal peers, lack of individual attention, and inadequate teacher preparation. (CL)

Some methods for evaluating movements are reviewed and their usefulness for neuropediatric diagnosis discussed. (SBH)

A simple interest inventory that learning disabled students can answer either in writing or orally is presented and remedial instructors are encouraged to use information gained from such inventories to help motivate learning. (DB)

Evaluation of vocational interests and personalities of 96 learning disabled high school students and 96 nonhandicapped peers using the Holland Self Directed Search found no significant differences between the groups. Results suggested a possible lack of occupational choices for learning disabled young people. (DB)

Teacher planning procedures employing percentage-based measurement summaries and subsequent implementation of the results of planning with and without error analysis resulted in moderate increases in correct mathematics computation of learning disabled 10-13 year olds. No significant differences were found for presence or absence of error…

Analysis of opinionnaires completed by 129 persons following a summer practicum ending their training as teachers of K-12 learning disabled students revealed that the respondents felt equally proficient in three levels of role competencies: child study teaming, mainstreaming, and providing direct instruction. (CL)

The ability of 10 language learning disabled (LD) children (age 9-12) and 10 sex/age matched normals to judge correctness of linguistic stress and semantic appropriateness was examined. Results indicated more difficulty on the linguistic stress task than the semantic interpretation task for LD children and better performance by normals on both…

Complex motor tics associated with vocal tics indicate a high likelihood of Tourette syndrome; children with this syndrome may also have learning disabilities and attentional disorders. Individuals may be treated with stimulant drugs which may precipitate or exacerbate tics. Pharmacotherapy is available for management of tics and attentional…

The practice of posthumously diagnosing historical figures is discussed. Emphasis is on the unsatisfactory nature of evidence found for those diagnosed as learning-disabled or dyslexic and the possibility of other explanations for identified problems. Posthumous diagnoses of Auguste Rodin, George Patton, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson, and Albert…