Reviews the history of remedial reading instruction for students with learning disabilities and clarifies the roles of the remedial reading teacher and learning disabilities specialist. (DD)

Reports on a study of 76 learning disabled children to discover the relationship between the auditory perceptual skills and reading skills. Indicates that the relationship between reading performance and the auditory skills of auditory closure and sound blending are relatively small. (TJ)

The article presents suggestions to assist parents of learning disabled (LD) children in modifying the home situaton so that the child can function as smoothly as possible within the family. (DLS)

The Parallel Alternate Curriculum (PAC) for modifying course content for learning disabled secondary school students is described. The rationale for PAC and four options for the practical application of the program are reviewed. The eight steps in the development of PAC, such as identification of learning outcomes and evaluation of students for…

Sixty learning disabled children and 60 children in regular classes (both groups' ages six to nine years) were given a tense marker test to elicit future, present, and past tense markers for 50 verbs organized into ten categories based on the operation required to form the past tense. (Author/PHR)

Findings indicated that, in general, seeing a training film in color did not enhance performance; in fact it appeared to have inhibited it. (Author/DLS)

Forty-six Black children (seven- through ten-years-old) referred for learning or behavior problems were administered both the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children- Revised (WISC-R) and the WISC. Ss had significantly lower WISC-R than WISC score, supporting previous studies which suggest that the WISC-R norms are "tougher" than the…

As a response to a preceding article, the author outlines his views regarding the nature of self-control particularly as they contrast the Fagen-Long curriculum for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled students. (SBH)

These tests provide one source of diagnostic data to support educational decisions for learning disabled children. The Profile Graph expedites communication of diagnostic assessment results to parents and teachers, and is a useful source of information in making placement and program planning decisions for learning disabled children. (Author)

Learning-disabled kids in a farmhouse classroom. (Editor)

Stressed in the symposium paper are research problems in learning disabilities, and proposed are solutions including behavioral definitions of the population under study, the discontinuation of the ex post facto research correlating psychosocial and etiological factors with special education labels, and adherence to basic rules of good research…

In answering responses to his paper on research problems in learning disabilities, the author reiterates his belief that more experimental designs based on observable behaviors are needed. (DB)

The conversations of 17 learning disabled elementary grade children were recorded during a summer school session in an effort to determine possible explanations for the sociometric rejection of learning disabled children reported in earlier studies. (Author/DB)

The relationship between physiological learning theory and the school-aged child with minimal brain damage is explored. (Author/SBH)