The development and initial implementation of the Threshold Program during 1981-82 at Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for young learning disabled adults, with IQs 75-95 is described. The goal of planning is explained to be development of a program which promotes independent living skills through a combination of courses fostering…

Three administrative approaches to organize the secondary school to provide services for learning disabled students are considered. In the first, a staff member assumes the role of case manager, coordinating communication and records from staffings, placement team meetings, conferences with parents, and individualized education program…

A speech/language remediation-intervention model is proposed to enhance processing of auditory information in students with language or learning disabilities. Such children have difficulty attending to language signals (verbal and nonverbal responses ranging from facial expressions and gestures to those requiring the generation of complex…

The paper summarizes findings from four studies on the referral process for students with academic and social/behavioral problems and several observational investigations on students' academic responding time. Research on referral addresses such aspects as reasons for referral, causes ascribed for difficulties, pre-referral classroom intervention,…

A national sample of 118 teachers of learning disabled (LD) students described their school districts' criteria for identifying LD students and indicated their agreement or disagreement with the criteria. Four basic categories of definitions were reflected in the categories provided by the 118 teachers: ability-achievement discrepancy, achievement…

The paper presents results of preliminary work in developing a scale to assess attention deficit disorder in a manner that provides educationally useful information. Based in part on B. Keogh and J. Margolis's component analysis of attending skills in learning disabled children (skills of coming to attention, sustaining attention, and making…

Cognitive social skills were assessed in 22 learning disabled (LD), 18 behavior problem, and 20 control boys in grades 7-9. Measures included an interview tapping social knowledge, self-reported behavior, generation of alternative solutions to social problems, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised Vocabulary Scale. Sociometric…

To determine if patterns of listening and reading skill development in mildly handicapped children differed markedly from those of non-handicapped children, 180 learning disabled (LD), educable mentally retarded (EMR), and nonhandicapped (NH) children from rural and urban settings were given the Durell Listening-Reading Series. A multivariate…

Sixteen elementary students were observed systematically over 2 entire school days to examine the nature of instruction and academic responding times for elementary learning disabled (LD) students during resource room and mainstream classroom instruction. Data were recorded on six categories in 10 second intervals. Results indicated that in the…

The booklet describes ways in which a logic teacher learned to accommodate learning disabled college students. Information on structuring the course includes general principles (such as clear expectations and a variety of learning modalities), considerations in identifying LD students, and use of a detailed course syllabus. He reviews a typical…

A college professor involved with the HELDS (Higher Education for Learning Disabled Students) project discusses ways in which he modified his course on the sociology of leisure for LD students. Following a review of LD characteristics is a discussion on identifying LD in students. Teaching strategies are discussed (including use of tape…

Differences in the delayed recall performance of auditory stimuli that were linguistic-meaningful (words), linguistic-nonmeaningful (nonsense syllables), nonlinguistic-meaningful (environmental sounds), and nonlinguistic-nonmeaningful (pure tones) were evaluated with 20 normal and 20 learning disabled children 5 to 9 years of age. (Author/DB)

Children with vestibular (inner ear) disorders and related postural disturbances constitute a large segment of the population described as learning disabled. (Author/DB)

Three-hundred kindergarten children were screened with a test battery in order to identify children at high-risk of experiencing learning disabilities. (Author/DB)