The use of neurometric techniques for screening of learning disabilities and the subsequent use of electroencephalogram biofeedback techniques provides a solid foundation for helping children with attention deficit disorders to improve markedly their ability to learn and to obtain significant improvements in school performance. (MT)

The Academic Intervention Program in Urbana, Ohio began as an exploration into the nature of individual differences in students and how they learn. The metacognitive approach and systematic work on learning styles and strategies points to a promising future in integrating the brain and learning. (MT)

Learning disabled high school students can gain success, self esteem, and improved decisionmaking skills through carefully planned art education classes. (CL)

Fifteen learning disabled students (six to nine years old) scored significantly higher on the PIAT spelling subtest than on a dictated spelling test using identical words. Either approach, however, (selection or supply) ranked subjects similarly. (Author/CL)

An examination of the field of learning disabilities (LD) reviews early efforts to identify the syndrome, effects of the federal definition, and controversies over the conceptualization of LD. The author emphasizes the need continuing the search for a viable paradigm to meet definitional, assessment, and instructional needs of the profession. (CL)

Two experiments investigated learning disabled children's ability to predict and evaluate their own decoding performance. Results tentatively suggested that when words were individualized in this manner, LD children were as competent as non-LD children in predicting and evaluating their own performance. (Author/CL)

Findings from 85 respondents to a survey of fundamental concerns in the field are discussed, first in terms of several overriding considerations; then, specific issues and problems associated with theory, research, practice, training, and field and policy activity are explored. Respondents underscored the link between improving the quality of…

The article reviews the literature and identifies issues in the lives of LD adults, including socialization, vocational adjustment, and education/training. Implications for future research and programing are noted, including research on skill demands in postsecondary education and programs offering career and vocational education to school-aged LD…

Five male learning disabled students (eight to 13 years old) learned more words using the nonpreferred hand in tactile processing to remediate reading than with the preferred hand. (CL)

A checklist of 26 behaviors is offered to help elementary level teachers determine where students are experiencing organizing or sequencing difficulties. Eight remediation suggestions for promoting organized behavior in learning disabled students are offered. (CL)

Evaluated a training program designed to teach 61 learning disabled junior high school students to set realistic ahcievement goals, to expend effort to reach the goals, and to accept personal responsibility for achievement outcomes. Goal setting strategies and effort attribution training were successful for 70 percent of the students. (JAC)

A teacher reviews the ways in which a garden project improved cognitive gains, responsibility, and appreciation of beauty in nature for learning disabled students (eight to 12 years old). (CL)

The author describes clinical sessions with an 11-year-old learning disabled child whose periods of silence communicated different meanings but were interpreted in the classroom as inability to perform tasks. (CL)

A structured reinforcement system, in which learning disabled students earn tokens for on-task activities, is an effective way of managing classroom behavior. An 11-step process of initiating such a program is described. (CL)

Leisure preferences of 51 learning disabled (LD) boys (grades 4-6) were investigated. Results indicated more similarities than differences in leisure choices. LD boys generally prefered the same types of after-school and weekend activities, and the same sports, hobbies, and television shows as their non-LD peers. (Author/CL)