The brains of 16 premature infants who died within their first month of life were studied microscopically. Journal Availability: See EC 152 470. (Author/CL)

Twenty-one learning disabled students and 25 non-LD students were asked to explain their high and low scores in a bowling game under conditions of either high or low success. LD Ss' explanations did not differ over the two conditions. Findings suggested that LD Ss viewed their difficulty as something that could not be overcome. (Author/CL)

Six modifications of minimum competency tests were found to enhance performance of 345 learning disabled third graders. Modifications included administering fewer subsections of the test per session, grouping similar skill items in sequential order of difficulty, and using symbols to organize the flow of items within the test. (CL)

A resource teacher of learning disabled adolescents describes a cognitive strategies approach designed to allow students to generalize skills to other tasks. This approach focuses on such skills as gaining information from texts, performing more accurately on tests, and presenting written work attractively and cogently. (CL)

A study of articles appearing in the "Journal of Learning Disabilities," from 1971 through 1980, yielded results such as 87 percent of definitions of dyslexia were in terms of a selective reading or spelling deficiency on a standardized test and only one of 45 studies classified dyslexics. (Author/MC)

The author reviews issues related to grading learning disabled students that may cause problems between special and regular education teachers. He suggests that too many regular teachers have confused and arbitrary grading policies and that a pass/fail approach may be a wiser alternative. (CL)

The study investigated six inferential measures of attention with 140 Ss, eight to 12 years old (with 14 learning disabled and 14 nondisabled Ss at each age level). Results indicated the measures did not consistently identify learning disabled students and did not predict classroom attending behavior. (Author/MC)

A highly structured six-step strategy to teach paragraph organization skills to learning disabled secondary students revealed that the students, who were beginning rather than remedial writers, could profit from a formula writing approach that focused on one writing component at a time with maximum practice. (CL)

An example is provided of remediation activities for learning disabled adolescents having a specific computation difficulty with place value and the subtraction with regrouping algorhythm. A seven-day remediation procedure, which may be used with the other basic operations, fades from the concrete to the symbolic mode. (CL)

The method of repeated readings may be useful with disabled readers. Many disabled readers decode text in a word-by-word fashion and consequently have difficulty understanding what they read. This failure is often attributed to their inability to focus attention simultaneously on decoding and comprehending the message. (Author/SEW)

The effectiveness of two techniques to help nine elementary learning disabled students generalize a computation skill was investigated. Results showed that demonstration and modeling plus feedback was sufficient to increase some Ss' ability, but that others require further intervention. (Author/CL)

Research at the Chicago Institute focused on the social competence of learning disabled (LD) children, including investigation of communicative competence (e.g., adapting one's style to listeners, conversational skills), reading abilities (oral reading and comprehension), causal attributions of success and failure, and the immediate impression LD…

The author reviews the accomplishments of the five Learning Disability (LD) Institutes and cites several failings, including lack of longitudinal studies and low level of cooperation among institutes. Successes are seen to include information on the nature and complexity of LD and on important variables in pupils' academic and social success.…

The article suggests that work with fractions deals with fundamental computation deficiencies and maintenance of interest of beginning secondary learning disabled students. Offered are 10 sequences and strategies for teaching fractions, remediation guidelines, as well as comments on drill sheets and daily scheduling. (Author/MC)

The purpose of the study was to determine whether a visual arts program related to the human figure would enhance the body image of 20 elementary grade children with learning disabilities. (Author/SW)