Fifty-eight students (in grades 5 and 6) of average or near-average intelligence (who were reading 2 or more years below their normal expected level and who learned best through the auditory modality) took part in a study to evaluate the following areas: the effectiveness of two auditory highlighting procedures for increasing listening…

Reported are proceedings of a conference on drugs and the handicapped child. Provided is the transcript of discussions which centered on the use of legal (prescribed for medical and educational reasons) as well as illegal drugs. Considered are the following major topics: an overview of drug problems in the United States and of drug education in…

The booklet describes a functional approach to evaluation of instructional materials which resulted from Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for use with language disabled children. Explained is a summer training program for teachers in the evaluation of materials which stressed…

Presented is the tenth of 12 instructional kits, on teacher self-appraisal, for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the kit are directions for preassessment tasks…

Presented is the last of 12 instructional kits, on accountability, for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the kit are directions for preassessment tasks for six…

The purpose of this study was to use the case study method to diagnose and analyze disabled college readers and to determine their specific reading deficiencies. The subjects for this study were black male freshman volunteers, between the ages of 19 and 24, enrolled in a small, church related college in the Southwest. Negative environmental…

The report of the 1970 convention of the Council for Exceptional Children includes a workshop on the need for teacher training in the behavioral and learning disability areas. The workshop proceedings discuss innovations in teacher training by James T. Tompkins and George T. Donahue, a prescriptive teaching system by Laurence J. Peter and Keith H.…

The author concerns himself with ten questions concerning guidance of the elementary school child: (1) What is effective education, (2) what sorts of schooling do children need, (3) how much of the child does the school seek to educate, (4) what are the guidance learnings, (5) what is the meaning of guidance, (6) does the school really need…

Provided are standards and guidelines to be used in planning, evaluating, and accrediting school language, speech, and hearing (LSH) services. Recent research and refined clinical procedures are said to aid LSH specialists in identifying children with auditory/language disorders leading to learning disabilities as well as children with…

Defined are categories of learning disabilities (LD) that can be remediated in regular public school classes, and offered are remedial approaches. Stressed in four studies is the heterogeneity of LD problems. Suggested is grouping LD children into three categories: no disorder (problem is from the learning environment); minor disorder (problem is…

In response to shifting demand for teachers, a special education option was added to the University of Delaware's undergraduate elementary program. Without sacrifice of existing programs, college resources were reallocated to maximize the normalization of school services for educationally handicapped children. Thirty-six to 40 undergraduates per…

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Learning Disability Residency Program is an interagency field-oriented teacher training program designed to meet the immediate and growing need for Learning Disabilities teachers in the state of Wisconsin. The specific objectives of the program include the following: (a) to provide a clinical year of…

The guide is intended to provide an orientation to the individualized, performance based special teacher preparation curriculum at Florida State University. The aim of the curriculum is given to be preparation of teachers to serve in public school resource centers by identifying needs of, providing individualized instruction for, and monitoring…

The curriculum provides the clinical teacher trainee with objectives and procedures for demonstrating competencies utilizing a performance based individualized curriculum in resource rooms with mildly handicapped educable retarded, learning disabled, and emotionally disturbed elementary school students. The curriculum is described to be a…

Presented is a proposal for a 2-year project to identify and remediate needs of emotionally and learning disabled (LD) children in kindergarten through grade 3 in Yankton, South Dakota, to be funded through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III. Defined in the preface are areas of learning disabilities and associated skills to be…