The purpose of this study was to determine whether performance on Piagetian seriation tasks discriminated better than sequencing tasks between learning disabled and normal six-, seven-, and eight-year-old students. In addition, both techniques were examined with regard to prediction of academic achievement and differentiation between age levels…

Reviewed is the research on the early prediction of academic underachievement or learning difficulty and described are predictive projects currently underway by the author. Suggested by the review are that the child at highest risk for school learning difficulties is a later-born male, who has a history of pre or perinatal complications and who is…

Two tests of morphological ability, the Berry-Talbott Test and the Grammatic Closure Test of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities were administered to 20 good readers and 20 dyslexics (all second grade males). The results indicated that the dyslexics were inferior to the good readers on both measures and that on the Berry-Talbott Test…

In an effort to examine the pragmatic effects of definitions of learning disabilities and identification procedures, information was gathered on the characteristics of 53 children (grades 1 through 7) who had been previously diagnosed as learning disabled. Results of tests such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and the Illinois Test…

Investigated was the relationship between academic achievement and self concept with a total of 37 learning disabled (LD) children (between the ages of 8 and 14 years) of whom 19 were enrolled in self contained special classes and 18 were receiving services from resource teachers. Ss were administered the Primary Self Concept Inventory and the…

The author surveys the status in the USSR of educational programing and psychological research with learning disabled children who are classified as temporarily retarded in psychological development (TRPD). Education and psychology in the USSR are said to be marked by the following major characteristics: a strong emphasis on the importance of…

Presented is the second year (1972-73) report of the Affton School District's (Saint Louis, Missouri) program (funded under Title III) to provide diagnostic studies of elementary grade learning disabled (LD) children, learning centers in four elementary schools for LD children, and adequate programing to allow LD children to be returned to the…

Presented is the final report of a 2-year (1971-73) project by the Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation and Related Disabilities (ISMMRD) in which a guide was developed for teaching approximately 1,600 mentally retarded and learning disabled students (3 to 21 years old) in the United States Dependent Schools in the European Area…

Presented is the first of 12 instructional kits 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 orientation kit are directions for preassessment tasks for the four…

The effects of an oven timer as an antecedent stimulus on study behavior and concurrent completion and accuracy of reading and writing assignments were investigated for an 8-year-old first grade repeater who lacked motivation. Following baseline observations during which the teacher recorded study behavior and collected assignments with no…

The structure and function of the nervous system as it puts us into contact with our environment is described. Section 1 presents a detailed discussion of the structure of the brain, drawing an analogy to a computer, and discusses the sensory input function. The transport system is then explained in a description of the transmission of sensory…

The purpose of this study was to identify the differences between students who profit from compensatory education programs and those who do not. The study looked at family systems, family interactions, and individual children's behavior from a point of view that subsumes cognitive and communicational style variables which differ from the framework…

Speeches presented at the international convention of the Council for Exceptional Children in Chicago, 1970 are reported. Papers are concerned with medical views of children with minimal brain dysfunction by C. Arden Miller, medical intervention in maladaptive classroom behavior by Kenneth Zike, medical intervention and the pediatrician's role in…

The recent trend in special education toward individualized teaching based on the diagnosis of specific learning disabilities is reviewed. The concern of educators for emphasis on psychoeducational diagnosis to determine learning and behavioral problems, and their remediation, rather than primarily on classification and categorization along…

Described as one of 34 booklets in a series of promising programs on childhood education, the report provides information on the Dubnoff School for Educational Therapy (California). Aspects of the program designed for the educationally disadvantaged are discussed including its origin, nature of the population, parental involvement, objectives and…