Gifted students with spatial strengths have areas of remarkable talent but are often overlooked, underidentified, and underserved in American schools. Their preference for learning through imagistic reasoning conflicts with traditional verbal instructional techniques typically used in schools. To better serve these students who have the potential…

Examined the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children protocols of 94 special education students longitudinally. As predicted, subjects had lower IQ equivalent scores on Bannatyne's Sequencing Ability category than on the WISC and WISC-R, confirming that mildly retarded children and learning disabled children have qualitatively similar learning…

The importance of neuropsychological paradigms of higher order human information processing in providing remedial services to learning-problem children and in providing a guide to the habilitation of learning for all children is explained. The conceptual requirements of such models as well as their implementation are described. (Author/AL)