This study used computer simulation to provide information on the percentage of students with learning disabilities expected to be identified under different aptitude-achievement discrepancy eligibility models and criteria and to demonstrate the consequential effects in terms of the extent to which the different models identify students of…

Eighteen boys, 10 to 11 years of age, with learning disorders were compared with normally achieving boys on an attention demanding task under the conditions of constant stimulation and stimulus change. (Author/MC)

Of 115 consecutive dyslexic children referred for psychiatric evaluation on the basis of their poor or refractory response to reading instruction, 112 (97 Percent) children showed evidence of a cerebellar-vestibular dysfunction. (Author)

A parent describes her aphasic and hyperactive son's development of communication skills. (DB)

The author discusses the correctability of reading failure and suggests that teachers and parents discard fantasies about remediation and emphasize alternative skills through which the reading disabled child can develop his intelligence. (GW)

This paper was part of a symposium on Reading Disabilities presented to teachers in the Denver Public Schools. (Author)

This article suggests some practical resources for classroom teachers in the detection of learning disabilities." (Authors)