The article explores the use of resource rooms with educable mentally handicapped students. (PHR)

Cautions and considerations for developing and implementing instructional models for students with learning and behavioral problems are examined in view of the need for keeping students as close to the least restrictive alternative as possible. (Author)

Reactions of parents of learning disabled children are examined through answers of three parents to ten questions concerning attitudes, emotional adjustment, marital problems, sources of professional help, educational treatment, and advice for other parents. (DB)

Reported by the child's teacher is the successful use of a language experience approach to teach reading to an extremely shy second-grade girl with few prereading skills. (DB)

The Vane Kindergarten Test (VKT) is judged to have limited usefulness in early detection of learning handicaps for two reasons: (a) Its reliability is too low to allow discrimination between individuals, and (b) The ability of the VKT to predict problem behaviors is quite limited. (Author)

Investigated with 333 children in grades 4 and 6 of three western Canadian urban public schools was the relationship between diagnosis of learning disabilities (LD) and socioeconomic status (SES). (Author/IM)

The Pupil Rating Scale was examined in terms of the amount of variance accounted for in screening for learning disabilities in three groups of students--normal, borderline learning disabled (LD), and LD. (Author/SBH)

This article reviews the various neurolinguistic explanations and models put forth for alexia. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

The author identifies various models for screening communication problems and discusses them in relation to the guidelines of Chapter 115 (Wisconsin State Law) which specifies that all students entering a school district for the first time shall be screened. (IM)

Data on 81 children (3 to 12 years old) enrolled in special education and regular classrooms were studied in order to examine the correlations between scores on various subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) and scores on several other standardized tests commonly used in the diagnosis of language disabilities, and to…

A study involving 152 children (ages 7-13) with learning disabilities assessed the relationships between age and psychosocial functioning, and the relationships among psychosocial functioning, cognitive abilities, and academic achievement. Results found no increase in psychopathology with advancing age and clear relationships between academic…

The effects of a task-focused goals (TFG) treatment in mathematics were studied with low-achieving students with or without learning disabilities. Results with 40 elementary classrooms showed that TFG students enjoyed the approach, but that increased effort was associated with greater learning only for those without learning disabilities. (SLD)

Successful transition programs for students with learning disabilities have some common elements: job-related academic instruction, interpersonal skills development, vocational education, and follow-along counseling after formal schooling ends. (SK)