This article analyses possible treatment for hyperkinetic or hyperactive children after a complete physical examination. Possible aids discussed are drugs, change of environment or curriculum. (JA)

Paper describes some experiences with teachers and children who engaged in one-to-one teaching and learning situations. (Authors/CB)

The Downriver Learning Disability Center and its ecological approach" which suggests that a learning disability is evidence of a faulty interaction between the child's available learning modalities and his educational eco-system. (Author/RY)

Defines learning disabilities and describes a graduate program to prepare teachers and special service personnel to recognize and teach children with learning disabilities. (RT)

Results of study designed to compare diagnostic and prescriptive decisions of 90 reading specialists and teachers about a fourth grader experiencing reading difficulty found the Ss made very similar diagnostic and prescriptive decisions except for establishing the child's instructional reading level. Then reading specialists and LD and Title One…

Psycholinguistic insights relevant to diagnoses of reading difficulties are considered, and the importance of evaluating oral reading performance on significant word recognition errors rather than on total errors is emphasized. (CL)

Reviews common place-value errors in addition and subtraction and describes a classroom-tested instructional model using the diagnostic-prescriptive approach for remediation of these errors. The method is considered appropriate for introducing the concept of regrouping. (Author/DB)

The need for mathematics specialists, similar to those often supplied for elementary schools in music, art, and physical education, is promoted. Such specialists should have special training to diagnose learning patterns. (MP)

The article describes the Diagnostic Evaluation of Writing Skills (DEWS), a diagnostic teaching tool containing criteria of assessment to determine a student's deficiencies in reading and writing. (DLS)

Responding to critics of testing, the author presents an argument in its favor--that testing is one of the ways in which a teacher may gather information necessary for student monitoring and instructional decision-making. (SJL)

The article presents an interview with Heckelman, senior clinical psychologist with the Riverside County Califonia Children's Mental Health Department, on successful remediation of learning disabilities. Topics discussed include the relationship between success of remedial techniques and lateral dominance, the neurological impress method, the…

The article, the sixth in a series discussing specific tests of the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude (DTLA), deals with verbal opposites (word meanings in isolation) and verbal absurdities (word meanings in context). (DLS)