The study involving 60 learning disabled (LD) and 30 normal achieving seventh through ninth graders was designed to identify adolescents homogeneously defined as exhibiting a "specific learning disability in arithmetic" and to determine if the cognitive processes (visual-spatial, visual-reasoning, and visual-memory) are related to the academic…

In spring 1982, a study was conducted of the programs and services for learning disabled average (LDA) students offered by California community colleges. The study sought to ascertain program characteristics, the means by which colleges identified adult students with specific learning disabilities, and the assessment tools used. Questionnaires…

The purposes of this study were to determine (1) which tests are most frequently used in the identification of learning disabilities, (2) how knowledgeable specialists are about the technical properties of the tests, and (3) what practices are used to safeguard valid diagnoses when psychometrically inadequate tests are used clinically. A two stage…

The document contains proceedings of the fourth national conference on meeting the needs of disabled students in higher education. Fifty-one presentations are divided into nine major categories--keynote address, the international year of disabled persons, management of a support services office, legal and planning issues, counseling students with…

This paper begins by defining biofeedback and describing some of the major biofeedback machines. An historical perspective is provided of research literature on the relationship of biofeedback and learning. Biofeedback and relaxation are discussed and research is cited for the use of biofeedback techniques in relaxation training with children. Two…

A study was conducted to determine how the length of the school day affects the academic achievement of kindergarten children who are deficient in readiness skill development (low performance in auditory memory, rhyming, letter recognition, visual matching, school language and listening, and quantitative language as measured by the Metropolitan…

Nineteen children, aged 7 through 17, were pretested, individually tutored in reading for 12 weeks, and posttested in a study to examine the effect of an individualized reading tutorial program on the locus of control and locus of evaluation of children with reading disabilities. A reliable, valid measure of locus of control and locus of…

Research on the causes, prediction, and specific problems of learning disabled children is reviewed for the years 1967-1978. The literature on the following questions is examined: Can learning disabilities be predicted and will early identification help alleviate the problem? Can training programs significantly remediate reading disabilities? What…

The recent integration of learning disabled students into regular classrooms has emphasized the need of the regular classroom teacher to have special education competencies. The implication is that all teachers should attain a certain level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. The Generic Affective Competency (GAC) model identifies how teachers…

This collection of five case studies reveals how screening programs for preschool and kindergarten children are currently being implemented in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Programs in a variety of communities--large and small, rural, urban and suburban--are portrayed. The screeners interviewed were chosen in part because they also vary in…

A career/vocational education training module was developed based on a needs assessment of 2,000 secondary teachers of emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and educable mentally retarded in Wisconsin. Concepts included in the module were historical factors, definitions, implications for the handicapped, models for implementation, assessment,…

The difficulties children have when learning to read vary from child to child and from age to age. Some learning variables transfer as a child develops so that skills acquired in early learning stages transfer to more mature stages of development. However, the abilities that transfer and produce effects at one stage of learning may be different…

The teacher inservice learning module described here focuses on skill building for management of unusual classroom problems such as learning disabilities, discipline, and emotional and physical problems of students. Information is provided on the purposes and content of the modules as well as activities and resources involved. A critique, history…

The bulletin explores various aspects of mainstreaming handicapped youngsters into regular K-12 social studies classrooms. It is intended to give classroom teachers practical advice on dealing with the problems which have resulted from the passage of Public Law 94-142. Major problems include that handicapped youngsters often present an additional…

New treatments of reading disabilities have recently been developed. New medical therapies for reading disabilities link poor functions of the mechanism that controls balance and movement to reading disability and focus medical attention on diet as a cause of hyperactive behavior and learning disorders. These medical therapies are still…