Described is the development and revision over a 3-year period of the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL), a screening test to identify pre-kindergarten children with learning disabilities. The DIAL is said to provide for gross motor, fine motor, cognitive, and communications assessment of large groups of children. Among…

Briefly reviewed and evaluated are the instructional materials, books, or media appropriate for use with learning disabled children and at interest levels from preschool through secondary. (Author/DB)

Examined were differences between Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scores for 99 children with learning problems who were patients in a multispecialty group medical practice. (Author/DB)

Fifteen Chinese ideographs were successfully taught to 7 first grade American children having great difficulty learning to read English by the phonemic approach. (Author/DB)

It is essential that time and effort be spent in order to better understand the issues and impact of learning disabilities in adolescence. (PHR)

The regulations implementing Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) raise several concerns about their implications for the learning disabled secondary student. (PHR)

A survey of 301 randomly selected local education agencies was undertaken in order to estimate the availability and types of special services currently provided to specific learning disabled adolescents, the identification and placement procedures used, and the primary problems in service delivery. (PHR)

The use of directive cues to facilitate recall and clustering of verbal materials in good and poor readers is investigated. Overall results indicate strong and positive effects of directive cues on the subjects' recall and organization of memory, and indicate that poor readers are unadaptive learners who appear to have a performance deficit,…

Subtest scores on the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children did not clearly distinguish learning disabled children from other children in a study; a diagnostic model is proposed here which considers how a child organizes information in order to distinguish between content and behavioral deficiencies. (Editor/MM)

Children with visual or auditory reading disorders and normally achieving children performed visual and auditory recognition tasks, with visual or auditory distractors presented. With distractors, learning disabled groups made more errors and did not improve over trials as much as controls. All groups made more errors when task and distractor were…

The reliabilities of several commonly used instruments of intellectual, academic, and affective assessment were tested with learning disabled children between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS)

The language competency of learning disabled (LD) children as it relates to social situations demanding interpersonal communication skills was examined in 28 LD and normal elementary school children. (DLS)