Intended for classroom teachers, the manual provides an approach to observation, assessment, record keeping, and remediation of students' visual performance. A list of clues for detecting visual performance difficulties and nine laws applicable to visual performance development tasks are given. Described in two sections are the materials, steps,…

Described are two alternative training programs designed to quickly prepare competent personnel to serve children with specific learning disabilities (SLD) through cooperation of teacher training institutions and local school districts. The program, involving the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Roanoke County Public Schools, is described as…

Intended for teachers and speech clinicians, the handbook and accompanying worksheets describe research-based psycholinguistic procedures for needs assessment and individualized instruction of language-delayed children, including aphasics. Four main chapters explain how to collect a language sample (a systematic transcription of the student's…

Designed for teachers and administrators in Mississippi, the resource guide provides basic information relating to the education of children with specific learning disabilities (SLD). Federal and Mississippi state laws and policies relating to SLD children are explained. A model is presented dealing with instructional aims and learning processes…

The handbook was developed to allow teachers to take advantage of the ideas of persons participating in the Zoo Project for Handicapped Children, in which educationally and mentally handicapped children received language arts instruction organized around the use of animals at the zoo site and in classrooms. The first section of the handbook lists…

Fifty-eight students (in grades 5 and 6) of average or near-average intelligence (who were reading 2 or more years below their normal expected level and who learned best through the auditory modality) took part in a study to evaluate the following areas: the effectiveness of two auditory highlighting procedures for increasing listening…

Reported are proceedings of a conference on drugs and the handicapped child. Provided is the transcript of discussions which centered on the use of legal (prescribed for medical and educational reasons) as well as illegal drugs. Considered are the following major topics: an overview of drug problems in the United States and of drug education in…

The booklet describes a functional approach to evaluation of instructional materials which resulted from Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for use with language disabled children. Explained is a summer training program for teachers in the evaluation of materials which stressed…

Presented is the tenth of 12 instructional kits, on teacher self-appraisal, for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the kit are directions for preassessment tasks…

Presented is the last of 12 instructional kits, on accountability, for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the kit are directions for preassessment tasks for six…

The purpose of this study was to use the case study method to diagnose and analyze disabled college readers and to determine their specific reading deficiencies. The subjects for this study were black male freshman volunteers, between the ages of 19 and 24, enrolled in a small, church related college in the Southwest. Negative environmental…

The report of the 1970 convention of the Council for Exceptional Children includes a workshop on the need for teacher training in the behavioral and learning disability areas. The workshop proceedings discuss innovations in teacher training by James T. Tompkins and George T. Donahue, a prescriptive teaching system by Laurence J. Peter and Keith H.…

The author concerns himself with ten questions concerning guidance of the elementary school child: (1) What is effective education, (2) what sorts of schooling do children need, (3) how much of the child does the school seek to educate, (4) what are the guidance learnings, (5) what is the meaning of guidance, (6) does the school really need…

Provided are standards and guidelines to be used in planning, evaluating, and accrediting school language, speech, and hearing (LSH) services. Recent research and refined clinical procedures are said to aid LSH specialists in identifying children with auditory/language disorders leading to learning disabilities as well as children with…

Defined are categories of learning disabilities (LD) that can be remediated in regular public school classes, and offered are remedial approaches. Stressed in four studies is the heterogeneity of LD problems. Suggested is grouping LD children into three categories: no disorder (problem is from the learning environment); minor disorder (problem is…