Among results from evaluation of approximately 400 learning disabled students' individualized education programs (IEPs) were that more than 75 percent of the instructional objectives addressed basic academic areas, while only 10 percent were listed in areas relating to social, emotional, and behavioral needs; in addition, 6 percent of the IEPs…

The author presents a format for reporting the progress of an individual remedial program which would contain the following six sections: identifying data, summary of educational evaluation, nature of the remediation program, evaluation of the remediation program, conclusions, and recommendations. (PHR)

The study investigated the effects of three stages of instructional manipulation on first- and second-grade students who were functioning at a frustration level. (Author/SBH)

The article describes a unique visual-motor act, peering (when the child looks closely at near-point paper and pencil work), which the author has noticed frequently in children with learning disorders. (SBH)

Defines both hyperactivity and hyperkinesis, how students suffering from those conditions behave, and the use of drug therapy for reducing such behavior in classrooms. (RK)

Twenty-four language-disordered children (ages 3-8 years) were trained, through modeling with a problem-solving set, to produce a question form involving a "wh" word--"who", "what", or "where"--in a structure requiring either auxiliary "is" or auxiliary "does." (Author)

Various testing-the-limits procedures were employed in administering the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices test to 108 subjects with learning difficulties (age range 8.4 to 12.9 years). (Author)

Designing and building a hockey table offered upper school students at Ashbourne School in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, vocational and academic instruction, opportunities to channel aggressive and sexual impulses, experiences that enhanced self-image, healthy peer relationships, and opportunities for individual initiative and involvement. (JG)

Though labeling often is correctly condemned as reductionism, sometimes naming a disability assists the affected person by explaining unusual behavior and facilitating acceptance and remediation of it. (JG)

Two responses to the Federal definition of learning disability in the proposed regulations for Public Law 94-142 are presented. (CL)

A task sequence is presented for teaching mentally retarded or learning disabled children to tell time. (CL)

Among six reasons cited for advocating caution in mainstreaming learning disabled students are lowered self concepts in mainstreamed students due to competition with their normal peers, lack of individual attention, and inadequate teacher preparation. (CL)