Techniques for evaluating and teaching the use of scissors in primary level children are described. (SBH)

The article is an account of the author's work in a remedial reading department with John, a preadolescent, passive aggressive student at the Rose School (Washington, DC) for emotionally disturbed children. The case provides an example of blending teaching skills with psychological insights. (Author/SB)

Valuing is a basic dimension of thinking and decision making that should be encouraged by teachers of the mentally handicapped. (GW)

Interviews with eight experts working with schizophrenic students supported the need for a self-paced, supportive, consistent structured, and clearly defined management system. Suggested intervention techniques and strategies are outlined for four major psychiatric symptoms: impaired reality testing, impaired object relationships, thinking…

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)

Recommended is the use of water play with multihandicapped children to develop speech and self help skills and concepts such as color and space. (DB)

A teacher tells how she has used imitation techniques to teach basic reading and writing skills to severely retarded, mongoloid, and less retarded children. (DB)

Shaping behavior by reinforcing a series of successive approximations is discussed, and procedures for promoting internal shaping in children are described. Instructions are given for the "shaping game," by which parents and children can learn the techniques. (CL)

Puppetry has four major benefits as an aid in regular and special education: as a motivational strategy, an instructional tool in the curriculum, a remedial and therapeutic device, and an entertainment and recreational tool. (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…

The article provides six suggestions for preschool teachers with visually handicapped children in their classes. Suggestions are also given for classmates' guiding a blind child. (PHR)

The article presents a technique for using calligraphy instruction to develop pride and skill in written expression with special students. Guidelines for the teacher cover materials needed, instructional procedures, and remedial advantages for students with handwriting problems. (SBH)

The article suggests ways in which the blackboard can be used to increase teaching effectiveness, especially in relation to the direct instruction method (which involves clear goals, constant monitoring, immediate feeback, single basic steps, and each step clearly objectified). (PHR)

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)

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)