Adapted screening devices and teacher observation were used in a 1974 study of 1003 Finnish students (ages 6-8) in an effort to predict future learning difficulties. Six areas were assessed: gross motor skills, sensory-motor integration, perceptual-motor skills, arithmetic skills, socioemotional adjustment, and verbal ability. In a follow-up study…

Two experiments were conducted to assess the performance of freshmen chemistry students with poor spatial visualization skills. In the first experiment, 31 chemistry students with academically deficient backgrounds completed a diagnostic test of their ability to visualize and interpret pictorial representations of simple molecular structures. At…

The assessment and diagnosis of learning disabilities (LD) in the school is problematic. How do educators determine who is learning disabled? What practices are recommended? The main focus of the paper is on specific, relatively technical points that influence the validity of assessment. Since technical concerns are only one of the factors…

One of the central problems in teaching dialectally divergent students to read is the teacher's own lack of awareness of the nature of dialects. Teachers with some linguistics background will be more sensitive to language variation, and will therefore be better able to recognize divergent dialects and to separate learning problems relating to…

The Bridge To School Program was designed to supplement and extend the scope of an ongoing early childhood developmental program, the "Readiness Program", by providing individualized attention and instruction to specially selected seriously learning disabled children between the ages of 5 and 7 in order to facilitate the development of…

The work reported in this paper is one segment of a larger project which began in 1971, a project aimed at assisting practicing school psychologists to update their knowledge and skills. Efforts were directed at getting the psychologists to update their knowledge and skills. Efforts were directed at getting the psychologists to include in their…

Chapter 5 of "Education of Exceptional Children, a review of the literature for the 3-year period since the issuance of "REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, Volume 36, No. 1, February 1966.

The research described here seeks to characterize the "managerial" aspects of expert and novice problem-solving behavior, and to describe the impact of managerial or "executive" actions on success or failure in problem solving. A framework for analyzing protocols of problem-solving sessions based on "episodes" of…

This collection of five case studies reveals how screening programs for preschool and kindergarten children are currently being implemented in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Programs in a variety of communities--large and small, rural, urban and suburban--are portrayed. The screeners interviewed were chosen in part because they also vary in…

This annotated bibliography includes a list of 362 books and pamphlets which relate to seven areas of child development and family life. These areas are marriage and the family, human development, sex education, disabilities, schools and learning, mental health education, and social problems and the family. Within these areas, entries are…

Minorities have for some time faced underrepresentation in the technical professions. However, recent statistics indicate that many more minorities are enrolled in higher education than ever before. This report centers on identifying the particular difficulties that bilingual Hispanic students majoring in technical subjects have in performing…

The Pediatric Examination of Educational Readiness (PEER) was designed as an integrated health and neurodevelopmental instrument to be administered by pediatricians and nurses in the assessment of preschool children. It may be used to identify potential learning disabled children who need intervention. The neurodevelopmental part of the test…

THIS REPORT BRIEFLY DESCRIBES THE EDUCATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC AND PLANNING CENTER FUNDED UNDER TITLE III OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT. THE CENTER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COORDINATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR UNDERACHIEVING OR OTHERWISE ATYPICAL PUPILS WHO ARE POTENTIAL DROPOUTS BECAUSE OF A PARTICULAR BEHAVIOR OR…

THE SUBSTANCE OF THIS FINAL REPORT ON THE HEAD START PROJECT OF 1965 IN MISSISSIPPI IS A DEEP CONCERN WITH THE EFFECT OF THE SOCIAL MILIEU IN WHICH THE PROJECT STRUGGLED RATHER THAN WITH THE USUAL VARIETY OF STATISTICS AND RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS. THIS IS DUE, IN PART, TO THE PAUCITY OF SIGNIFICANT RESULTS AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, TO THE SHOCKINGLY…

MANY AMERICANS EMPLOYED OVERSEAS, ESPECIALLY NAVY AND MARINE PERSONNEL, NEED KNOWLEDGE OF THE CULTURES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. THERE IS CRITICISM OF TRADITIONAL WAYS OF SELECTING PERSONS AND TRAINING THEM. A NUMBER OF NEW TECHNIQUES, BASED ON EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING IN SIMULATION OF FOREIGN SOCIETIES, SEEM TO PROVIDE FOR OVERCOMING INTERNALIZATION…