A framework is provided for selecting and analyzing social skills curricula for teaching students with learning or behavioral difficulties. The framework emphasizes analysis of such programing considerations as individualization, cost-effectiveness, assessment, maintenance, and generalization. Presented are a checklist for analyzing the curricula…

Learning-disabled students may have some characteristics that make them particularly vulnerable to suicide. This article describes common misconceptions about suicide, discusses danger signs indicative of suicide risk, outlines steps in crisis intervention, and lists suggested information pamphlets and films. (JDD)

The study examined Performance and Verbal IQ scores for 27 depressed and 15 nondepressed children (mean age 10 years) with learning difficulties. Previous findings (Brumbach, 1985) of a significant association between depression and Performance IQ deficits were not supported by the current study. (Author/DB)

The study found that college student writers with learning disabilities (N=35) produced better coherent written text than did underprepared non-disabled students. LD writers appeared to understand text structure like normally achieving writers but, like the underprepared writers, they experienced difficulty in the production process. (Author/DB)

Federal and state efforts to enhance equal education opportunities through narrowly framed special programs have become problematic, as core curriculum instruction is slighted and children are classified in highly dubious ways. This article discusses problems and needed reforms of both the "second system" and regular education. Includes 20…

The performance of 10 language-learning disabled ninth graders was compared to that of 16 normally achieving ninth graders and 10 normally achieving fourth graders on a modified Piagetian problem solving task sensitive to cognitive changes in early adolescence. Results suggested significant conceptual limitations in the language-learning disabled…

Comparison of 181 children (ages 9-15) in either learning disability (LD), mild mental retardation, or regular education placement on the Durrell Listening-Reading Series found LD children were less delayed in listening than in reading skills, scored higher than children in the mild mental retardation group, and lower than the regular education…

Data on the relatively high prevalence of learning disabilities among populations of delinquents are presented, and three explanatory hypotheses are examined in the context of the research literature: the susceptibility hypothesis, the school failure hypothesis, and the differential treatment hypothesis. A multifactorial explanation is offered.…

This article identifies and discusses several issues, related to learning disabled students and students with behavioral disorders, which remain unclarified or unaddressed by Regular Education Initiative proponents. (IAH)

Interviews with 15 students identified learning and coping strategies for learning-disabled adult basic education students. A variety of learning strategies for dealing with reading, spelling, and life-skill tasks were uncovered. Learners were found to be contributing members of their social networks. (Author/JOW)

Eight students (aged 9 to 14) with learning disabilities were placed in a variety of spelling programs and followed a variety of study schedules. Results showed that students averaged more words spelled correctly when they used planning and self-recording strategies than when they did not use these student-directed strategies. (JDD)

This study compared achievement discrepancies for two groups of college students--a randomly selected group of freshmen and a sample of students identified as learning disabled. It found such a considerable overlap in achievement/ability discrepancies between the two groups that such discrepancies could not be considered diagnostic. (Author/DB)

Argues that through effective delivery of support services, compensatory and social functioning skills workshops, and increased faculty awareness, institutions of higher education can help meet the needs of learning disabled college students. (RS)

Two promising new technological tools for science education are described: microcomputer-based laboratories and science telecommunications networks. Explained are the benefits of these tools for students with learning disabilities (including emphasis on nonverbal images and improvements in student focus and communication skills) and guidelines…

The article, a rebuttal to a previous article, defends the value of vestibular theories and sensory integration treatments of learning disabilities originally developed by A.J. Ayres. (DB)