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Prewitt-Diaz, Joseph O. – 1982
This is a bibliography of research on bilingual/special education for children in preschool through high school. Most of the references are journal articles written within the last five years or documents available from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Cited are works on cognitive development, language development, intelligence…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
Martin, Larry L.; And Others – 1980
The report presents a model for appraisal and individualized educational programing for learning disabled children at the School of Education, Auburn University, Alabama. Descriptions by clinic staff of visitations to exemplary models and a summary of a regional conference on learning disabilities introduce the report. The clinic model is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Managed Instruction, Definitions
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1980
The manual contains three classifications (impairments, disabilities, and handicaps), each relating to a different plane of experience consequent upon disease. Section 1 attempts to clarify the nature of health related experiences by addressing reponse to acute and chronic illness; the unifying framework for classification (principle events in the…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication Disorders, Definitions, Disabilities
Orfitelli, Michael A. – 1978
The purpose of this investigation was to identify differences among normal children, learning disabled children, educable mentally handicapped children, and trainable mentally handicapped children in motor skill abilities and to develop profiles to demonstrate these differences. Subjects of the study were all educable and trainable mentally…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Mental Retardation
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – 1980
Fourteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Two of the reports deal with teacher education, two with problem solving, three with basic operations, and one each with learning disabled students, rational numbers, proportional reasoning, counting, teacher effectiveness, group cooperation on mathematical…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Learning Disabilities
Pooley, Richard C. – 1979
Progress in the second 6 months of a program development model for learning disabled (LD) and emotionally disturbed (ED) adolescents is reported. The program is designed to teach ED and LD children necessary work skills so that they can become productive members of society. Three methods are under investigation: (1) use of audio/visual resources…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Audiovisual Aids, Career Education, Community Resources
Finkelstein, Harry – 1980
This mathematics textbook, developed for use with slow learners and learning disabled students in secondary school, contains 17 chapters. Among the topics covered are: number words; place value; rounding whole numbers; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers; reducing fractions; mixed numbers; lowest common…
Descriptors: Addition, Division, Fractions, Learning Disabilities
Ganschow, Leonore; And Others – 1979
The influence of context on recognition of words (decoding) and identification of word meanings was examined by presenting 160 test words in list and narrative forms to 16 reading disabled adolescents, 16 normal adolescent readers, and 16 younger normal readers. Relationships between decoding problems and language difficulties were explored.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
MINSKOFF, JOSEPH G. – 1967
THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO--(1) INVESTIGATE AND DESCRIBE THE LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS OF A GROUP OF MENTALLY RETARDED, EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN, AND (2) TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE REMEDIATION OF LEARNING DISABILITIES BY COMPARING THREE GROUPS--AN EXPERIMENTAL REMEDIAL TREATMENT GROUP, A COMPARISON…
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research, Language
Hartle, Helen; And Others – 1980
The manual describes a training program for mainstreaming visually impaired, hearing impaired, educable mentally retarded, learning disabled, and speech impaired preschoolers. Training programs are presented separately for administrators, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and aides. Skills, knowledge, and attitude objectives are…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Inservice Teacher Education
Sawyer, Diane J., Ed. – 1980
Focusing on helping teachers to understand and help children who have reading disabilities, the 13 papers in this volume were prepared by practitioners at various levels from public school, community, and university settings. The papers included in part one offer insights into the concomitant aspects of reading difficulties. Specific topics…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Education, Learning Disabilities
Newton, Jerry, Ed. – 1978
Designed to help teachers better understand the problems of learning disabled (LD) child, the manual explains the basic causes of LD and presents solutions to problems professionals face in working with this population. The manual contains the following chapters and authors: "The Teacher with a Learning Disabled Child," (P. Ackerman), "The…
Descriptors: Identification, Learning Disabilities, Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Nurses
Tabachnick, Barbara Gerson – 1979
Scatter on the revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children (WISC-R) was evaluated for 105 learning disabled (LD) children. Scatter was defined as range of scaled scores on: (1) five regular verbal tests; (2) five regular performance tests; and (3) all 10 regular subtests. Pairwise combinations of 11 subtests were also evaluated for deviations…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests
Pflaum, Susanna W. – 1978
A study was undertaken to discover whether there were differences between disabled children's linguistic cue use and that of normal readers under controlled conditions. Fifty-one children, 22 learning disabled and 29 control, were drawn from a poor, inner-city school district; 28 children, 14 in each group, from an affluent, suburban area. After…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Sawicki, Donna – 1978
The report describes Project LEARN, an educational program to identify the learning disabled (LD) youths who become involved with juvenile court and to facilitate their reentry into the educational system. Chapter 1, on the project's theoretical, legal, and agency foundations reviews the LD/JD (juvenile delinquency) link as it relates to program…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Curriculum, Delinquency, Family Counseling
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