The physician can provide valuable counseling for parents of learning disabled children, medical information concerning the child's health, and suggestions for treatment to supplement or be integrated into the student's educational program. (SW)

The author points out the need for learning disabled (LD) students to understand their disability as a step in developing a positive identity. A number of resources with suggested activities for developing self-concept in the LD child are mentioned. (SW)

Learning disabled children in three age groups were found deficient on binary conceptual rule tasks when compared to normal children. A modified reception paradigm using three bidimensional rules and two instructional conditions was used to test the hypothesis that deficient rule learning rather than inattention is responsible for poor learning in…

The incidence of depression in 282 children (6 to 14 years old) admitted to a child and family psychiatric unit for a variety of emotional/behavioral disorders was investigated. (Author/SB)

Two studies which extend previous research describing differences in teacher instructional behavior with high- and low-progress beginning readers are reported. In both studies inter- and intra-individual differences over time showed that higher reader accuracy was associated with less direct support. (Author)

A pilot project provides assessment, remediation, counseling, intervention, and coordination for learning disabled college students. (SB)

Suggests ways for the regular classroom teacher to cope with learning disabled students in a mainstreamed setting. (AH)

The process of writing a play serves as a remediation method for developing writing skills in the learning disabled student. The case of an 11-year-old student, who neither writes nor spells, illustrates this method. (SB)

The University of Pittsburgh's Psychoeducational Clinic, designed to assist parents and teachers in understanding children and their problems so that effective and efficient intervention can be applied, is described. The clinic's decision making model for the clinical assessment of children with learning and behavior problems is discussed. (Author)

The "Rewriting Technique" (which reduces a textbook chapter, article, or story to a desired reading level) is a method for meeting the reading needs of secondary level learning disabled students. (SW)

Using 60 fourth- to seventh-grade learning disabled (LD), normal, and gifted students, the comparability of representations of self-concept across groups was analyzed for the Sears and Coopersmith inventories. (Author/SW)

The author discusses the difficulty of noncontent words for children with poor reading skills and advocates a sentence-based program of instruction which has been successfully used to teach noncontent words to learning/language disabled children from 6 to 12 years old. (CL)

Learning disabled (LD) children react to hurt and rejection by selecting from a number of poor choices, including giving up or throwing a tantrum. A teacher can help the LD child through a reality program which includes 10 steps to better control. (CL)

The author presents a task analysis model for interpreting diagnostic test performance and for planning a remedial program for learning disabled students. A survey of evaluation instruments is given for eight skill areas, including oral expression, listening comprehension, and basic reading skills. A case study illustrates the approach. (CL)

The study involving 24 normal, 24 learning disabled (LD), and 18 deaf elementary-age Ss investigated the hypothesis that nonstrategic verbal encoding abilities are deficient in LD readers. Results were interpreted to indicate a deficient verbal-visual integrative process in disabled children occurring prior to the application of mnemonic…