The annotated bibliography on educational diagnosis and prescription contains 42 listings which are arranged alphabetically by author, and which include title, name of journal or publisher, and publication dates (from 1922 to 1973). Subjects of entries range from a specific discussion of the relationships between written spelling, motor…

Diagnosticians of handicapped children need to provide the teacher with quantitative and qualitative descriptions of how a child succeeds to bridge the gap between evaluation and the prescriptive program. The child's performance and the demands of the task should be delineated. Variables of development influenced by the impairment should be…

Offered for teachers who are overwhelmed by the task of selecting specific details from referral information for application with the learning disabled child is an analysis of prescriptive teaching for early childhood. Prescriptive teaching is described in terms of utilizing diagnostic information by modifying the educational program and…

Mainstreaming of handicapped children in regular classes requires the stretching of normal individualized teaching methods to include meeting the needs of handicapped or gifted learners. A learning loop consisting of diagnosis, educational prescription, instruction, and evaluation should be applied. Instructional strategies appropriate for both…

Proposed are two decision models intended to be followed by regular teachers, with the consultation of special educators, in the identification of handicapped children and in the provision of direct services to handicapped children in regular classrooms. (GW)

Presented is a case study of a 5-year-old girl, originally seen as disruptive, deprived, disturbed, and possibly retarded, which suggests that an ordinary remedial teacher, with some diagnostic help from consultants, can function successfully as the primary therapist for the child with difficulties in learning. (Author/KW)

Children 5- to 8-years-old with educational, emotional and neurological problems received individualized instruction in a behavior modification oriented diagnostic class with emphasis on reentering the regular classroom. (CL)

Pointed out are issues seen as unresolved in the implementation of diagnostic prescriptive teaching methods with learning disabled children. Questioned are the cost effectiveness of the clinical diagnostic process, practical limits of task analysis, and the failure to consider the child's total ecology or life space as a possible cause of the…

Sixty-six references selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts are included in the annotated bibliography on diagnostic teaching, one in a series of over 50 similar listings dealing with handicapped and gifted children. For each entry, bibliographic data, availability information, indexing and retrieval descriptors, and an abstract are…