Discussed are theoretical and treatment aspects of perceptual motor dysfunction and rehabilitation in 4- to 12-year-old academically failing children involved in a 3-year investigation at the University of Kansas. The program is said to stress increasing the amount of stimulation received by sensory receptors of the vestibular, reflex, and haptic…

Recommendations based on the two-and-a-half-year history of The Demonstration Center for Language Handicapped (LH) Children are reported. Noted are such recommendations as the following: that each school district develop its own operational definition of LH based on the state definition, adding the concept of significant discrepancy between…

Collected are 34 forms used by the author in remediating learning and/or behavior problems in elementary grade children. The consistent recording of data helps keep parents, teachers, administrators, and the teacher informed of the child's academic and social development. The forms are organized sequentially beginning with diagnostic tools and…

This two-part document provides an explanation and analysis of PROJECT MERGE and includes a handbook that provides an overview of the project's goals, implications, guidelines, and structures. Part 1 defines MERGE as an organized plan to integrate teaching knowledge with competencies in many areas to meet the needs of many different learning…

The persistence of learning disabilities to the junior school level indicates the need for a supplement to the regular school program, especially since junior high represents the last chance in most cases for public educational intervention. One-time development of a workable and transportable program model is therefore desirable. Personnel…

Presented is the report on the development and 1-year implementation of a minimum objective system with the kindergarten through grade 6 classes at the Hinesburg Elementary School in Vermont. Discussed is the project's intention to determine minimum objectives to be met by all students at a given grade level in areas such as language arts and…

The training manual of sequenced visual perception skills offers an assessment guide, explains approximately 20 major types of instructional activities, and describes appropriate instructional materials, illustrated in an associated filmstrip. All activities are organized into four learning steps (recognition, discrimination, recall, and…

Described in the manual is the Florida Language Profile (funded through Title VI), a flexible set of performance sampling procedures for measuring language cognitive skills of children in kindergarten and grade 1 and remediating diagnosed disabilities. It is said that the Profile may be administered by the trained examiner or classroom teacher on…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether primary dyslexic children are impaired equally in the areas of language and cognition and to assess the value of verbal cues in raising the dyslexic group's performance on word-retrieval tasks. Two groups of male children were used in the investigation. The experimental group consisted of primary…

The volume addresses itself to two basic competencies needed by teachers of the slow learning child: a rationale permitting consistent interpretation of the child's learning behavior and a repertory of techniques for presenting information in a myraid of ways, from which the teacher can select classroom presentation methods most appropriate for…

Compared were the effects of two experimental arithmetic treatments, called Laboratory and Textbook, upon achievement and attitude development of fourth grade children. Prior to the study, the experimenter employed task analysis procedures to develop hierarchies of skills for the four operations on whole numbers. During the instructional phase of…

The rationale of some current intervention projects that are designed to supply some environmental nurture (affective and cognitive) is discussed. Some major approaches used in these projects and problems related to early intervention are examined. Head Start and Montessori programs are omitted. Strategies utilized in the programs discussed…

Described is a projected program involving team teaching for speech clinician and classroom teacher to meet needs of children with communication problems in early childhood education centers. It is explained that the speech clinician will be present in the regular classroom for a given period of time to implement diagnosing and remediation of…

Boys, aged 6-10 in regular classes, who were judged as hyperactive by their teachers were compared with matched non-hyperkinetic boys in terms of family background information and neurological functioning. Parent interview data were obtained on 109 hyperkinetic and 135 control Ss, while 121 hyperkinetic and 142 control Ss underwent pediatric…

The volume, based on workshop proceedings, discusses identifying characteristics of various handicapping conditions and describes relevant teaching methods and curricula. Characteristic behaviors of aggressive and withdrawn emotionally disturbed children are specified. Discussions of mentally handicapped children center on problems of…