After a brief comment on adolescent development and the problem of underachievement and learning disabilities, the procedures used by the author in the diagnosis of learning difficulties are discussed. The somewhat arbitrary distinction is made between three approaches to diagnosis; neuropsychological assessment, diagnostic reading procedures, and…

A post doctoral fellowship to study the language handicapped child is briefly discussed. The report concludes a year of study during which the author attempts to develop a foundation to bring education and medicine together to meet the challenge of the language handicapped child. The major areas of study - reading, linguistics, and psychology as…

Both assessment and remediation of primary and secondary behavioral handicaps to learning are discussed, and a classification of behavior styles detrimental to learning, based upon observation of the child's behavior in learning situations, is presented. Primary learning-handicaps are defined as aspects of impairment of temperament which are in…

Nine papers dealing with educational, psychological, and medical aspects of the management of children with learning disabilities focus upon the medically-related aspects and information which would be useful to a multidisciplinary team in coordinating differential diagnostic efforts and instituting remediation programs. Discussions of the…

Reported was an experiment in which the parents of an 8-year-old learning disabled girl used materials from the Language Improvement to Facilitate Education (LIFE) Project in the home under the supervision of a classroom teacher. The S was presented with an average of two filmstrips each day over a 12-week summer period. Data indicated that the S…

Teachers should be concerned with the prevention of reading disabilities rather than emphasizing remediation. Many deprived children in our inner cities are deficient in areas necessary for successful learning. Characteristics of deprived, inner city children which cause learning problems are listening, speaking, experiences, mobility, immediate…

Reported was an explanatory conceptual model for pathological left-handedness (PLH) and related hypotheses, some of which could not be tested empirically due to lack of information. The model was reported to provide an explanation for the relationship between handedness and specific learning disability, and handedness and cerebral dominance for…

Examined are the steps involved in developing a curriculum for young deaf children with specific learning disabilities; the curriculum is thought to reflect an educational and remedial model based upon findings in previous studies in perceptual, cognitive, and educational psychology. The earlier studies are summarized briefly to explain the…

A series of studies on hyperkinesis in learning disabled children conducted at Texas Tech University over the past 10 years is reviewed. The research is described to have included three phases: the development of a basic vigilance task for assessing hyperkinesis and attentional deficits (a computer controlled series of regularly occuring events to…

The author describes a diagnostic-prescriptive approach in which teachers use observation skills to identify visual, auditory, and behavioral deficits in learning disabled students. Teachers are advised to ask themselves seven questions, including whether a real learning disability exists; where the student is currently functioning in reading,…

The annotated bibliography on Dyslexia contains approximately 95 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1966 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is explained that…

Investigated with a sample of over 25,000 students in the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth grades was the use of the Myklebust Learning Quotient (LQ) as one basis for classifying learning disabilities. Investigated were the distribution properties of the LQ when computed on scores from the California Achievement Tests, the Comprehensive Tests of…

Reviewed are programs and research on the value of early identification and intervention with learning disabled children. (DB)