Taking high school students with reading difficulties to movies is often a more successful teaching method than requiring the same students to read novels. (GW)

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The author, searching for possible neurological anomalies behind a learning disability, focuses on the theory that faulty lateralization is implicated in reading difficulties. (Author)

In an examination of the validity of the Visual Closure subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, 94 learning disabled students (mean age 9 years) were administered three visual measures. (CL)

Although the hypothesis that alpha biofeedback training would make a significant difference in reading gain scores of nine learning disabled students (7-12 years old) was rejected, most Ss gained in amplitude and duration of alpha waves and evidenced a slight improvement in hyperkinetic and maladaptive behavior with increased comprehension. (CL)

To improve memory in children in early grades or in children at all ages with cognitive problems, it is suggested that the teacher provide verbal interpretations of pictorial information, encourage children to verbalize the pictured material for themselves, and encourage children to create their own mental pictures. (SBH)

Describes an activity which successfully gets all students in a class (including those with reading disabilities) involved in constructing sentences and learning grammar and punctuation. (JM)

The differential diagnosis of learning disabilities (LD) and emotional or behavioral disorders is complicated by the high incidence of concomitant emotional or behavioral disorders in LD children. (DB)

Attempts to answer several questions posed by researchers in agraphia. The questions concern analysis of errors in sensory aphasia; a typology of sensory agraphia; a possible relationship between sensory agraphia and sensory aphasia; and questions of a neurolinguistic order and those of a purely linguistic order. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Reviews research on teaching spelling to the learning disabled and presents instructional recommendations. Examines research on reduced unit size and distributed practice, imitation plus modeling peer tutoring strategy training, self-monitoring generalization training, and microcomputer-based remediation. (KH)