Discussed are effects of linguistic conflicts between teachers' or clinicians' use of standard English and students' use of nonstandard English. Use of auditory contrastive analyses is suggested for development of better communication and reduction of the cultural/linguistic barrier. (KW)

The conversations of 17 learning disabled elementary grade children were recorded during a summer school session in an effort to determine possible explanations for the sociometric rejection of learning disabled children reported in earlier studies. (Author/DB)

Neurologically impaired children require consiciously and thoughtfully tailored speech on the part of teachers conversing with them. (Author/MC)

This introduction to a series of articles on the scaffolding metaphor in learning disabilities research introduces each article and raises two main concerns: the lack of careful delineation of how scaffolding becomes operational in research studies and constraints in the use of scaffolding arising from communication problems. (DB)