A CLOSED CONFERENCE ON DYSLEXIA AND RELATED LEARNING DISORDERS WAS HELD AT SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE COLLEGE ON MAY 15 AND 16, 1967. TWENTY-FIVE PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTED KEY PROFESSIONS AND RELEVANT INTEREST GROUPS, AND 10 OBSERVERS REPRESENTED FEDERAL AGENCIES. WITH RESPECT TO DYSLEXIA AND RELATED LEARNING DISABILITIES, THE CONFEREES ADDRESSED THEIR…

THE SCHOOL PHOBIA SYNDROME PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT OF A CLINICAL SYNDROME. A REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE REVEALS THAT DETERMINANTS OF THIS PHOBIA ARE INTRAPSYCHIC, INTERPERSONAL, FAMILIAL, AND COMMUNITY FACTORS. WITH SO MANY FACTORS INVOLVED, AN EXTENSION OF THE CURRENT APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM WOULD INVOLVE FAR TOO MANY…

THE BASIC VIEWPOINT OF THIS CONFERENCE IS THAT CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES MUST BE EVALUATED INDIVIDUALLY ACCORDING TO THEIR SPECIFIC DYSFUNCTIONS AND PLACED IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS ACCORDING TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. IN THE FEATURED ADDRESS, "NEW APPROACHES IN EDUCATION FOR THE CHILD WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES," BARBARA BATEMAN…

APPROXIMATELY 1,400 CITATIONS RANGING IN DATE FROM 1868 TO 1967 WHICH RELATE TO DYSLEXIA AND LEARNING DISABILITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY WHICH IS A COMPILATION OF LISTS SUBMITTED TO ERIC/CRIER BY INVESTIGATORS INTERESTED IN THE TOPICS. CITATIONS ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR AND INCLUDE BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, MANUALS, AND PUBLISHED…

The general purpose of this project was to initiate, implement and evaluate a program concerned with developing improved and more effective techniques for the reduction or prevention of learning and behavior problems in children. The children included in the PACE I.D. Center Study were an extreme group as far as behavior and learning problems were…

Studies have demonstrated that students learn to seek pleasurable learning situations and learn to avoid painful ones; however, when they do not have sufficient information at their disposal to determine whether or not their behavior will have a pleasurable or painful outcome, they experience a psychological conflict we are calling…

The present study examined the effects of varying meaningfulness of response terms (low, medium, and high) in paired-associate learning of five-or seven-item lists over five trials with both experimenter-paced and self-paced conditions. The subjects were two groups of elderly adults, 61-75 and 76-92. (Author)

Two publications on multicultural awareness are reviewed: The Toronto Board of Education "Final Report..." is credited for its "anti-assimilationist" position; "Black Students in Urban Canada" is faulted for its emphasis on West Indian black immigrants while ignoring the "established" Canadian black…

The author reviews research on the use of the ability training model and the task analysis in diagnostic/prescriptive teaching for students with learning difficulties. (CL)

Research regarding the characteristics and applications of "errorless" learning methods (stimulus shaping, stimulus fading, and superimposition) indicates that such methods provide a means of designing instruction and materials to facilitate the acquisition of skills, with minimal or no errors, by "difficult to teach" students.…

This study details the establishment of a teacher/learner laboratory at Monash University in Australia and the information it yielded about the learning and teaching of mathematics. Both instructors and learners understood they were cooperating to help develop an understanding of difficulties in learning and teaching strategies and ways to reduce…

The paper on learning disability (LD) definition and subtypes considers the nature of the definition and differentiation problems, the importance of placing and keeping LD in perspective vis a vis other learning problems, and future development of a LD classification schema using dimensions of cause, severity, pervasiveness, and chronicity.…

A telephone helpline in California designed to answer questions about learning problems and provide resources and referrals produced a dramatic increase in calls since its beginning. Such a system can be of further help by analyzing community information needs, preparing resource material, and providing training to professionals. (CL)

Discusses research related to assessment data for vocational-technical programs and categories skills as basic, transferable, and generalizable. Use of generalizable skills can identify functional learning abilities and problems of students in those programs. (JOW)

The author cites two cases of children with learning problems to distinguish between learning disabilities (inability to fulfill family and personal, social, educational, and vocational goals) and learning impairments (satisfaction with attained educational, interpersonal, and vocational goals). (CL)