A program to prepare elementary grade students for mainstreaming of handicapped students is described. An outline of objectives, student activities, and required media and materials to improve understand of hearing impairment, visual impairment, physical handicap, and learning disability are provided. (DB)

The authors highlight an inservice approach to mainstreaming elementary and secondary level handicapped students in physical education. Outlined are strategies for individual intervention, for group intervention, for auditory impairments, for visual impairments, for learning disabilities, and for orthopedic impairments. (SBH)

The article discusses some of the problems a learning disabled child faces when he/she learns to drive a car. (PHR)

In an article intended for parents of learning disabled children, the author reviews concepts of discipline, frustrations, verbalization, and a game approach to socialization. (CL)

Suggestions in the areas of structure, completion of tasks, and new learning are given to help parents of learning disabled children modify the home situation. (JYC)

A night school provides individualized learning prescriptions in such courses as reading, study skills, applied math, and computers to learning disabled adults. (CL)

A teacher of learning disabled students describes a color and shape coded system of teaching such calendar concepts as days of the week, months, seasons, and years. (CL)

Advance organizers, activities used before the learning task, can help mainstreamed learning disabled adolescents organize information more efficiently. Ten steps for developing advance organizers proceed from informing students to introducing vocabulary and stating the general outcome desired. This approach is easy to implement and may result in…

Listed are the objectives needed to be achieved by specific learning disability interns in order to be ready to assume a teaching position in the field of specific learning disabilities. (JYC)

Using a classroom discussion of the human digestive system as an example, the article promotes the idea that demonstrating abstractions in concrete experiential terms permits the learning disabled youngster to discover concepts for himself, which is the best possible learning experience. (JYC)

Listed are definitions of auditory processes (such as auditory discrimination, auditory memory, and auditory perception) and suggestions for improving auditory skills. (JYC)

Waterlearning, in which water supplements the classroom as the learning center, provides an alternative through which skills and concepts can be taught to learning disabled students for whom regular teaching methods are often ineffective. (SBH)

The article proposes the use of cooperative learning techniques with learning disabled students and suggests ways to implement cooperative learning principles using microcomputers. (DB)

Resource teachers can help learning disabled students generalize skills to a mainstream setting with three types of procedures: transfer activities; self control procedures (in which a behavior contract is developed and contingencies for self reinforcement are specified); and cooperative planning (in which resource teachers and regular teachers…