Reported was a followup study of intellectual and nonintellectual predictors at second or fifth grade levels of later high school achievement level and status of about 150 subjects. (DB)

Four components of reading speed were identified, and a measure of the first component, reading speed of known vocabulary, was investigated on a mixed sample of 84 boys (6 to 14 years old), which included a high proportion of retarded readers. (Author/GW)

Based on a paper presented in the American Association for Children's Residential Centers' task force on The School and Residential Treatment, for the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children (1967-1968). (JM)

Teacher-student interaction patterns in 12 third-grade mainstreamed classrooms were observed with four groups of students: nonhandicapped high achievers, nonhandicapped low achievers, learning disabled, and behaviorally handicapped. Although the behaviorally handicapped students were treated differently by their teachers more frequently than the…

This study compares the vowel-sound associations of normal and learning disabled children on regularly spelled (major pattern) words, irregularly spelled (minor pattern) words, and nonsense words following the same orthographic structures. The 60 subjects were matched on word recognition ability, as well as age. (Author/PN)