Investigated the reading performance of two older adults with acquired dyslexia. The first could read words but not nonwords; the second read nonwords but could not give phonetic sounds. Results supported a lexical phonological strategy which operates independently of semantic processing and nonlexical phonological strategies. (JAC)

The paper presents the position of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities regarding design and implementation of inservice programs for professionals serving learning disabled persons. Recommendations touch on needs assessment, competence of inservice leaders, models, multidisciplinary approaches, and administrative support. (CL)

Discusses barriers to self-direction in the adult learner and their implications for the program of reading instruction. Recommends methods by which these barriers can be surmounted. (NRJ)

Concludes that there are significant relationships between verbal IQ, full-scale IQ, and reading comprehension. (FL)

To assess the relative effectiveness of computerized over conventional remedial methods with handicapped learners, 205 learning disabled elementary school children were assigned to a mathematics computer assisted instructional (CAI) or spelling CAI treatment or a conventional instruction control group. Results indicated that gains for the three…

A creative writing program using a token reinforcement approach for six 10- to 12-year-old students with learning and behavior problems resulted in increased output of written words, reduced spelling errors, and improved composition quality. (CL)

The social skills of 119 learning disabled (LD) high school students was compared to that of 60 nonhandicapped adolescents and 57 court adjudicated juvenile delinquent adolescents, The non-LD youths performed significantly better than the other two groups of youths on seven of the eight skills. (Author/SEW)

Results suggested that LD adolescents do not automatically generalize recently learned social skills to novel role playing situations and the natural environment. Also, high performance in a novel role playing situation does not necessarily mean that a student will show a correspondingly high performance in the natural environment. (Author/SEW)

An intervention framework for the management of communication disorders in learning disabled children is presented. The model is comprised of three components: communicative intentions (what a speaker wants to convey), presupposition (a speaker's message in relation to specific information needs of a listener), and the social organization of…