Presented are 19 research reports which apply the philosophy of the consulting teacher program at the University of Vermont to provide special education individualized services within regular classrooms for Junior and Senior High School Students with academic and behavioral problems. Included are an overview of the consulting teacher program and a…

This study was conducted in order to develop and evaluate a systematic screening method which could be used by counselors and school psychologists in the identification of first graders showing characteristics generally associated with learning disabilities. The study was conducted within three Title I schools in a large sourthern metropolitan…

Described is the SHARE Project (speech and hearing alliances for research and education) which involves cooperation of university staff members, school supervisors, and teachers of the hearing impaired and clinicians in seeking solutions to problems in training, research, and school language/hearing/speech service programs. It is noted that…

Presented in the second of a two volume series are six workshop training kits for development of teacher skills to be used with learning disabled (LD) children. The first section of each kit contains a leader's guide which gives activity, objectives, teacher prerequisites, time required, materials needed, step-by-step procedures, a discussion…

Presented are nine papers given at a 1973 seminar at the University of Queensland in Australia on the identification and treatment of children with learning disabilities. Noted are recommendations of the Senate Standing Committees on Handicapped Persons and Teaching Education which would require increased numbers of trained teachers and other…

A 3-year Title III project in Union, New Jersey involved screening of 869 incoming kindergarten children in 1967 and 840 children in 1968, subsequent identification of children's perceptual difficulties, and remediation. The children were screened in areas of perceptual-motor match, auditory dynamics, associative processes, and gross-motor…

Computer Assisted Remedial Education (CARE) I was developed to provide a college level computer-assisted instruction (CAI) course for preschool and elementary school teachers dealing with the identification and diagnosis of handicapping conditions in children. This fourth volume of the final report of CARE I is a planning manual giving a detailed…

The booklet presents a rationale for a prescriptive teaching approach and discusses materials appropriate to both the diagnostic and instructional phases of prescriptive teaching. Prescriptive education is defined as an approach to curriculum based upon thorough diagnostic evaluation of a child's specific learning abilities and disabilities.…

This speech offers a guide to identifying and teaching high-risk children, those who exhibit a lag in development severe enough to be a handicap in learning. The high-risk children focused on are those whose developmental lag is frequently not recognized until they fail in school. The two major areas of neurodevelopmental learning disorders are in…

WISC performance of 77 boys with serious school learning problems was analyzed according to three factors hypothesized to reflect functional differences in learning styles. Sub-samples identified as Learning Disordered, Learning Disordered-Hyperactive, or Educable Mentally Retarded, differed in patterns of subtest scores, although within groups…

This bibliography on nutritional disorders and child development is directed towards early childhood professionals outside the field of nutrition. The main topic covered pertains to malnutrition and undernutrition as it relates to mental/intellectual/cognitive development of children from the fetal stage through the early childhood years. Included…

This document describes and evaluates the final year of operation of a three-year demonstration project conducted at three Minnesota community colleges which sought to locate learning disabled students in the three colleges, identify their special learning problems, and aid them in succeeding in their academic programs. During 1975-76, the project…

This is the final report of a project set up to: (1) design and implement a multidisciplinary model of a diagnostic/prescriptive remedial demonstration center for training professional personnel who work with children experiencing specific learning disabilities and to (2) develop effective diagnostic/prescriptive/remedial procedures which will be…

The state of the art in early identification of children with learning problems is reviewed, and generalizations about the value of early screening are offered. (CL)

Performance of 100 college freshmen on the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery, Part II, Tests of Achievement, were analyzed by subtests and cluster scores to determine appropriateness for assessing achievement of handicapped students. Minor inversions in item order and pronounced ceiling effects on all subtests yielded lowered subtest and…