Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (12th, San Francisco, California, November 1, 1969). (RJ)

The research here reported is a result of growing interest in the early identification and remediation of learning disabilities among preschool and primary age youngsters. A screening test is described. (Author/BY)

Suggests that once major behavioral problems have been solved, the teacher should concentrate on the specific learning problems of each child. This paper is a revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Psychiatric Clinics for Children, November 9, 1968, New York. (NH)

Attempt to assess efficiency of Haine and Koppitz scoring systems with Bender-Gestalt in ability to differentiate between brain-damaged and other young people in a residential treatment center did not prove useful. (Author/CJ)

Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 15, 1969).

An investigation of the causal attributions of success and failure performances on various levels of task difficulty by 36 learning disabled and 36 nondisabled adolescents revealed that Ss' perceptions of the task difficulty levels were significant determinants of the two groups' differing causal attributions. (Author/CL)

Surveys of 1,164 special educators revealed that they did not support a combination of the traditional categories of mental retardation and specific learning disabilities. Special education teachers and evaluators of the handicapped were stronger in their endorsement of separate categories than special education administrators. (CL)