The effects of errorless discrimination training (Sulzer and Mayer) on visual and auditory discrimination of digraphs of a learning disabled eight-year-old female resulted in a successful technique for digraph discrimination. (Author/PN)

Reanalyzed the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised subtest scores in Dean's 1978 study of learning disabled and emotionally disturbed children. Analysis revealed a marked similarity between the groups. Results support Sattler's contention that Dean's data do not present evidence of a perceptual organization deficit in learning…

Characteristics of a behavioral approach to remediating academic deficits of learning disabled (LD) children are reviewed. The behavioral approach encompasses individualization and mastery learning, direct teaching, and an emphasis on measurement. (SEW)

Content analysis of two reading series intended for remedial students indicates that (1) neither provides a balance of types of literature; (2) both claim to be interested in the attitudes and interests of readers, but that's not evident in text selections; and (3) both portrayed the usefulness of reading most often as a reading-related theme. (FL)

The Learning Disabilities Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University, was organized as five task forces, conducting research in specific areas: memory and study skills, problems in learning basic skills (arithmetic, reading, and spelling, and reading comprehension, (from the perspectives of interaction of text and reader and of semantics…

Learning disability researchers often misconstrue their object of study, unexplained underachievement, by interpreting it neurologically and ignoring the classroom environment and the social forces shaping it. It is important to recognize that academic performance is shaped by larger extra-educational and political forces in society. (Author/KC)

Effects of Public Law 94-142 on school media centers and ideas/materials that could be used with hearing impaired/deaf, blind, and physically handicapped students were discussed in part one (February 1982 issue of this journal). This part focuses on materials/ideas and programs to help mentally handicapped students in the school media center.…

A program was developed to increase the receptive and expressive language skills of 24 secondary learning-disabled students. Program units covered word sorting, sight-word vocabulary, key-word reading, reading rate, reading comprehension, listening, and writing. (Author/SW)

Argues that it is important for educators to include physicians in the development of educational plans for exceptional children. (FL)

The Time-Us Chart is seen as an effective tool for helping the student become aware of how many hours are spent in school, in studying, and in recreation. The Study-Skills Questionnaire evaluates the student's study skills in terms of environment, attitude, and methods. Samples of the two work sheets are included. (SW)

Investigated the impact of the 14-week Purdue Creative Thinking Program on learning disabled intermediate grade children. Found pupils in the experimental group made significantly higher scores on the creativity variables of the verbal subtest of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. (Author/JAC)

Although cognitive psychology is concerned with the processes of knowing rather than with behavior, certain applications of cognitive psychology and learning theory have been achieved: (1) behavior modification; (2) bio-feedback; (3) psycholinguistics; and (4) information processing psychology. (CJ)

A study involving 33 academically talented, 25 regular education, and 20 special education junior high school students was conducted to investigate students' career attitudes and knowledge about jobs. (SB)

A literature review reveals that learning disabled children are more likely than normal achievers to attribute successes, but not failures, to external factors. The implications of locus of control for the field of learning disabilities are discussed in terms of its relation to academic achievement, learned helplessness, and remediation programs.…

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Revised (WISC-R) Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQ's were compared with Bannatyne recategorized WISC-R scores for groups of non-handicapped, educationally disadvantaged, learning disabled, and regular classroom Navajo Indian children. No definitive evidence was found to support the use of the…