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…

In response to shifting demand for teachers, a special education option was added to the University of Delaware's undergraduate elementary program. Without sacrifice of existing programs, college resources were reallocated to maximize the normalization of school services for educationally handicapped children. Thirty-six to 40 undergraduates per…

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Learning Disability Residency Program is an interagency field-oriented teacher training program designed to meet the immediate and growing need for Learning Disabilities teachers in the state of Wisconsin. The specific objectives of the program include the following: (a) to provide a clinical year of…

The guide is intended to provide an orientation to the individualized, performance based special teacher preparation curriculum at Florida State University. The aim of the curriculum is given to be preparation of teachers to serve in public school resource centers by identifying needs of, providing individualized instruction for, and monitoring…

The curriculum provides the clinical teacher trainee with objectives and procedures for demonstrating competencies utilizing a performance based individualized curriculum in resource rooms with mildly handicapped educable retarded, learning disabled, and emotionally disturbed elementary school students. The curriculum is described to be a…

Presented is a proposal for a 2-year project to identify and remediate needs of emotionally and learning disabled (LD) children in kindergarten through grade 3 in Yankton, South Dakota, to be funded through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III. Defined in the preface are areas of learning disabilities and associated skills to be…

Presented is the annual (contract year 1972-73) report of Project LIFE (Language Improvement to Facilitate Education), a program to develop an instructional system to assist handicapped preschool and elementary aged children to acquire a functional language system. The prime teaching modality of the program is explained to be the filmstrip which…

Prescriptive teaching was reported to be the subject of an institute (August 1972) which showed teachers how to use a conceptual model of the learning system, how to help children develop self concept so as to overcome maladaptive behavior, and how to write educational procedures for individualized instruction. The conceptual model was described…

Presented are suggestions for speech therapists to use in auditory perception training and screening of language handicapped children in kindergarten through grade 3. Directions are given for using the program, which is based on games. Each component is presented in terms of purpose, materials, a description of the game, and directions for…

One of a series of over 50 similar selected bibliographies dealing with handicapped and gifted children, the bibliography contains 96 references concerning perceptual-motor development and learning. Entries, which include research reports, texts, journal articles, and other types of literature, were selected from Exceptional Child Education…

Presented are 12 programed instruction exercises in writing letters of the alphabet, spelling words, addition, numeral-number association, subtraction, color words chart, answering basic questions about stories, sentences, paragraphs, and paragraph titles for elementary school children who demonstrate a learning disability and/or behavior problem.…

This handbook, intended to accompany the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, describes numerous remedial and developmental activities for perceptual motor and psychomotor skills. Observable classroom behaviors associated with various perceptual motor and psychomotor disabilities (visual-motor channel disability, auditory-vocal channel…