The mother of a child with specific learning disabilities recounts his progress from 18 months to 16-years-old and stresses the need for coordinated medical, educational, and parental action to identify and remediate learning problems. (LC)

Concluded that adolescents with learning disabilities exhibited quantitative and qualitative reductions in the recognition of affective cues which related to visual-motor organization. (RB)

The exclusion of culturally disadvantaged students from the general classification of students with learning disabilities is questioned. (Author)

Compared was the academic performance in the third grade of 75 children who had participated in the Complete Communication Development Program, a learning disabilities kindergarten, with the performance of 75 children in regular kindergartens. Stanford Achievement Test scores indicated that the Ss in the special class performed significantly lower…

The study compared 46 normal and learning disabled eighth graders as to their retention of nonsense syllables once mastery learning occurred. Groups were equated by intelligence, age, and sex and were presented ten nonsense syllables to be remembered. Each group studied the material until a predetermined percentage of the words could be recalled.…

Discussed is early identification of children having special educational or developmental needs, with emphasis on the use of screening to identify the potential high risk learner. Terms are defined and criteria to help select a screening instrument are given. The Zeitlin Early Identification Screening (ZEIS) is described as an example of a…

The resource teacher's role as a consultant for learning disabled children in the regular classroom requires the skill of consultation which includes establishment of a contract, a working alliance, and a communications system between the resource teacher and the regular teacher as well as criteria for evaluation and termination. (DB)

Discussed are the role of the sensory integration specialist in diagnosing and treating various disorders of sensory integration. (DB)

The study involving 183 learning disabled and 852 nondisabled children (grades 3 through 6), investigated students' performance on arithmetic basic fact problems in addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Three separate group administered tests were devised, covering 98 basic addition, 98 subtraction, and 98 multiplication facts. Children were…

The relationship between classroom behavior and academic success was investigated in 29 seventh grade boys with learning difficulties. Observations were made of 19 categories of behavior, including approval in group, appropriate visual orientation in class, class interaction, group work, inappropriate peer interaction, and teacher contact. Results…

The document describes model demonstration projects, products, and Learning Disabilities Research Institutes funded by the Program for Severely/Profoundly Handicapped Children and Youth and by the Handicapped Children Model Program (HCMP). An overview section contains an analysis of data regarding the characteristics of children/youth served,…