The position statement of the Council for Learning Disabilities' Board of Trustees opposes the measurement and training of perceptual and perceptual-motor functions as a part of learning disability services and recommends instead that assessment and remediation focus on the primary disorders of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, and…

The investigation, which involved 55 learning disabled and 54 normal children (mean age seven years), was designed to test the hypothesis that differences between these groups on tests of perceptual functioning are not educationally significant. (Author/SBH)