This paper cites studies on the interaction of depression and learning disability, examines the question of whether depression is a result or a cause of learning disability, emphasizes the importance of proper diagnosis of depression versus learning disability, and reviews the incidence of suicide-related events among the learning-disabled.…

Though labeling often is correctly condemned as reductionism, sometimes naming a disability assists the affected person by explaining unusual behavior and facilitating acceptance and remediation of it. (JG)

Criticized are existing methods of identifying learning disabled children, and suggested are three objective conditions thought to be more appropriate. (DB)

Survey data from five school system coordinators of special education in Alabama indicate incongruity between the criteria for identification of learning disabled adolescents proposed by J. Lee Wiederholt (1975) and the observed characteristics of 161 students, grade 7 through 12, already identified as learning disabled. (JG)

Examined were the effects of early identification and specific remedial intervention with 1,641 kindergarten children who received the Des Plaines Kindergarten Screening Test to identify potential learning problems early in the school year. (DB)

The article provides practical advice for teachers in preventing nutrition related learning problems. (PHR)

Outlined is the Special Academic Development Program devised by the author, a specific learning disabilities consultant at the secondary level. (JG)

Offered to aid the regular teacher in the identification of symptomatic behaviors of learning disabled or otherwise handicapped children is a behavior guide organized into six behavioral categories: visual behavior, motor behavior, graphics, physical health, multisensory skills, and socio-emotional behavior. (DB)

The article, fifth in a series on subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Revised (WISC R), discusses how to use pattern analysis of the Similarities (verbal) and the Object Assembly (performance) subtests in diagnosis of learning disorders and prescription of instructional approaches. (IM)

To determine antecedent conditions which may contribute to specific learning disorders, the records of 432 children referred to the Pupil Appraisal Center were reviewed. (SBH)

The Learning Problem Indication Index an instrument intended to help identify the preschool child with potential learning problems, was evaluated with 432 children (ages 4 to 19 years) from varying backgrounds referred to the Pupil Appraisal Center at North Texas State University. (DB)

Criticized are conventional special education approaches which are said to diagnose, label, and exclude handicapped children from educational services; and described is the diagnostic prescriptive teacher model developed at George Washington University in Washington,D.C. (DB)

Intended for parents of children with learning disabilities, the article presents suggestions for obtaining appropriate educational programs, remediation, identification and/or treatment for their children within a public school setting. (IM)