Defines both hyperactivity and hyperkinesis, how students suffering from those conditions behave, and the use of drug therapy for reducing such behavior in classrooms. (RK)

Twenty-four language-disordered children (ages 3-8 years) were trained, through modeling with a problem-solving set, to produce a question form involving a "wh" word--"who", "what", or "where"--in a structure requiring either auxiliary "is" or auxiliary "does." (Author)

Various testing-the-limits procedures were employed in administering the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices test to 108 subjects with learning difficulties (age range 8.4 to 12.9 years). (Author)

Designing and building a hockey table offered upper school students at Ashbourne School in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, vocational and academic instruction, opportunities to channel aggressive and sexual impulses, experiences that enhanced self-image, healthy peer relationships, and opportunities for individual initiative and involvement. (JG)

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)

Two responses to the Federal definition of learning disability in the proposed regulations for Public Law 94-142 are presented. (CL)

A task sequence is presented for teaching mentally retarded or learning disabled children to tell time. (CL)

Among six reasons cited for advocating caution in mainstreaming learning disabled students are lowered self concepts in mainstreamed students due to competition with their normal peers, lack of individual attention, and inadequate teacher preparation. (CL)

Some methods for evaluating movements are reviewed and their usefulness for neuropediatric diagnosis discussed. (SBH)

A simple interest inventory that learning disabled students can answer either in writing or orally is presented and remedial instructors are encouraged to use information gained from such inventories to help motivate learning. (DB)

Evaluation of vocational interests and personalities of 96 learning disabled high school students and 96 nonhandicapped peers using the Holland Self Directed Search found no significant differences between the groups. Results suggested a possible lack of occupational choices for learning disabled young people. (DB)

Teacher planning procedures employing percentage-based measurement summaries and subsequent implementation of the results of planning with and without error analysis resulted in moderate increases in correct mathematics computation of learning disabled 10-13 year olds. No significant differences were found for presence or absence of error…