Describes a program designed to provide students with individualized spelling remediation using imitation and modeling techniques. (Author)

While the normative frame of reference is adequate for diagnosis, a behavioral approach may be more suited to the prescriptive phase of assessment. The behavioral frame of reference is described and its relevance to prescriptive assessment is discussed. (Author)

Reading disabled children were given direct instruction on a medial vowel sound, practice on monosyllabic words containing the sound, and specific transfer training on nonsense syllables. Word attack strategy was varied for the five treatment groups. The initial bigram strategy yielded significantly better performance on transfer words. (Author/BW)

Asserts that, because of frequent interruptions and changes in their learning environments, highly transient children may display symptoms similar to those of specific learning disabilities. Urges educators to distinguish between these two problems in diagnosis and referral. (Condensed from "The Arizona Administrator," May 1981, p7.) (Editor/SJL)

The learning opportunities center for special needs community college students at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York, uses procedures such as individual and small group tutoring, one-to-one and group counseling, direct classroom intervention, faculty orientation and consultation, and bypass techniques and materials. (LRA)

The data suggested that both joining and conversation skills were problems for the boys, and that participation in the social skills training program resulted in improvement in interpersonal skills and in the frequency of interactions with peers. (Author)

The EEG biofeedback training produced baseline effects in the presumably dysfunctional left hemisphere and had an impact on arousal in task, suggesting remedial potential for the possible hemispheric arousal deficts in learning disabilities. Training the right hemisphere toward higher arousal and the left hemisphere toward lower arousal resulted…

Fifteen learning disabled secondary students participated in resource room activities that stressed completing employment applications, looking for employment ads in newspapers, and role playing a job interview. Seventy percent of the class found gainful employment without assistance from outside sources. (CL)

Preskills and strategy training were shown to be effective in helping four eight- to nine-year-old learning disabled children acquire basic multiplication and division skills. (Author)

A cluster-analysis procedure was used to identify subgroups of children who manifested specific learning disabilities in reading (SLD/R) in terms of performance on a battery of eight language and perceptual tests. Ss included a group of 100 SLD/R children and 50 normal readers (NR)(11- to 12-years-old). (Author)

The author defines and describes tactile defensiveness, provides information to assist the special educator in recognizing and coping with the syndrome, and addresses the unique behavioral problems and academic performances characteristic of learning disabled students. (SB)

Analysis of questionnaires completed by 75 elementary school teachers supported previous findings that teachers had more favorable attitudes toward mainstreaming learning disabled than emotionally disturbed students and were least favorable to mainstream educable mentally retarded students. No relationship between attitudes and previous teacher…

The article reviews 44 studies that investigated the efficacy of biofeedback techniques in treating childhood behavioral and learning disorders. (Author)

The evidence suggested that LD children, as a group, exhibit a characteristic WISC(-R) profile whereas few individual LD children actually conform to this pattern. It was concluded that WISC(-R) profiles may not be useful for differential diagnosis of LD students. (Author)

The article reviews recent literature on families of learning disabled (LD) children. The literature describing parental reactions to the diagnosis of learning disabilities and the problems inherent in living with these children is discussed, as well as the children's reactions. (Author)