A study compared self-concept in 50 Hispanic middle school children with learning disabilities and 70 controls. Differences were found between the groups on the Intellectual and Social Status and Behavior subscales of the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Sale, with controls scoring higher on both scales. No differences were found on global…

Offers a case study with information for students with learning disabilities who want to become lawyers. Describes procedures for getting into law school and taking the bar exam. (Contains 17 references.) (JOW)

Discusses how as inclusive efforts became more prevalent in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, the Individualized Education Program (IEP) came to be considered a key factor in achieving high quality services and instruction for students with disabilities. Describes a technique, the Summary of Individualized Objectives (SIO), for making IEP goals and…

Suggestions for teaching students who are both gifted and learning disabled stresses providing them with compacting and differentiation in the areas of their strengths and direct instruction of learning strategies in their areas of weakness. The article also warns that the child's giftedness may go unnoticed and unaccommodated in favor of…

Describes signs of possible learning disabilities in early childhood, during the elementary grades, in middle school, in high school, and in college students and other adults. Includes a table differentiating 25 characteristics of individuals with dyslexia and attention-deficit disorder. (KB)

Examines the impact of gender, learning disability status, and sources of efficacy on self-efficacy beliefs and academic achievement in the concept of Bandura's self-efficacy theory. Results revels that LD status had indirect influence on self-efficacy via the source variable; gender did not have influences; and sources of efficacy had direct…

This study evaluated the effect of a training course for staff working in British learning disability residential services on their attributions and practice. Decreased usage of the attributional category "communication deficit" was found 8 weeks later. Also, practice appeared significantly changed from baseline to follow-ups 4 and 5…

The study examined the persistence of problems resulting from learning disabilities during school-age years (retrospectively) and in adult years. A rating scale of characteristics of learning disabilities was given to 133 adults identified as learning disabled in school and highly or moderately successful in employment. Persistence of problem…

Faculty questionnaires can be used by college personnel working with learning-disabled students to collect information essential for developing support services. A sample questionnaire on instructional methods and one on classroom adaptations are included. (DB)

The article offers guidelines to educators evaluating controversial therapies and applies them to four such therapies: tinted lenses as a cure for dyslexia; orthomolecular treatments for learning disabilities; pharmaceutical intervention for dyslexia; and visual training for children with learning disabilities. (DB)

Evaluation of a metacognitive reading program with 13 learning-disabled children in grades 3 and 4 found that students increased in performance and awareness of strategies from pre- to posttesting. Differences were also observed between different clusters of students with defensive, pessimistic, or realistic self-concepts. (DB)

The self-perceptions of 86 learning disabled students in grades 3 through 8 were investigated using the Perceived Competence Scale for Children of S. Harter (1982). Results indicate that social comparison processes are important in the formation of learning disabled students' perceived academic competence. (SLD)

This study examined effectiveness of an instructional program designed to teach learning-disabled adolescents (N=70) to make better personal decisions. A pretest/posttest comparison design found that following instruction students showed better ability to both identify general schema for decision making and apply schema to novel problem…

This study of 218 White and 132 Black students (mean age=10.3) referred for possible learning disability services found that Black subjects were more likely to exhibit a severe discrepancy between expected and actual achievement levels when using a regression procedure than when using a standard score comparison procedure. (Author/JDD)

Highlights four factors (acceptance of learning of problem, family engagement with achievement behavior, parental discipline method, role of the identified child) commonly observed in families that helped the identified child with learning disabilities reach its highest level of functioning by examining three families for a three-year period. (ABL)