An approach to prekindergarten screening of learning disabled students is explained to probe six areas of development: gross motor, perceptual motor, auditory perceptual, speech and language, visual motor, and social/emotional. (CL)

A prekindergarten screening program using a team consisting of two kindergarten teachers, a school psychologist, a speech/language therapist, a nurse, and an occupational therapist/special education teacher for the identification of "high risk" children is described. (PHR)

The author describes a system using computer technology to organize instructional materials in a school system or regional library so that teachers of learning disabled and other disabled students have help in the selection of appropriate materials. (SW)

A teacher describes the values of wrestling as part of a physical education program for learning disabled students. Benefits include improved self-confidence, use of aggression in a positive way, and increased touch and contact. (CL)

Learning disabled, educable mentally retarded, trainable mentally retarded, and gifted students (fifth through eighth grade) participated in a supplemental computer-assisted project in the Farrell Middle School (Farrell, Pennsylvania) to improve students' skills in the areas of computation, concept development, problem solving, and application.…

Teachers of learning disabled adolescents are urged to help students understand their disabilities through honest and sensitive discussion. (CL)

A former teacher of learning disabled adolescents describes how logo-therapy, an approach which stresses responsibility for one's self, can help students gain new attitudes towards themselves, their peers, and their goals. Examples of circle sessions are offered. (CL)

A case study describes the evaluation and successful intervention with a learning disabled college student who evidenced visual perceptual motor processing deficits. Tutoring sessions focused on reading, math, spelling, and handwriting skills. (CL)

Comprehensive college programs for learning disabled students may include special admission policies, diagnostic testing, and prescriptive planning, special advisement, remediation of basic skills, tutoring in subject area courses, spelling courses for college success, auxiliary aids and services, and counseling services. (CL)

A program designed to help students improve the readability of written assignments has resulted in improved proofreading skills for special education, remedial English, and regular students at both elementary and secondary levels. (CL)

An approach relying on the principles of acupuncture and emphasizing relaxation and trust has promoted psychomotor, health, communication-cognition, and affective skills in handicapped students. The approach has involved staff, parents, and community members. (CL)

A math teacher recounts how six weeks of computer assisted instruction, about which she had been very skeptical at first, resulted in substantial gains for six learning disabled students in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. (CL)

A five session program that involved empathy, sensitivity exercises, and a visit to a resource room reduced the ostracizing by fifth graders of their learning disabled peers. The program was designed to deal with the students' values to excel and their typical preadolescent fear of being different from peers. (CL)

Cumulative teaching, in which it is made certain that a child acquires one competency before proceeding to another of the same type, is described in terms of assumptions, main ideas, and its application to phonics, vocabulary, and basic addition for learning disabled students. (CL)

A classroom teacher describes an approach to classroom organization for learning handicapped students in which the teacher is the hub and classroom activities radiate from him or her. Learning stations are located on the periphery, and spaces are designated for free time and time-out. (CL)