To assist the family doctor in providing guidance to parents of learning disabled children, a physician reviews pertinent literature, describes therapeutic techniques, and evaluates their effectiveness. (LH)

Profile of a new facility for handicapped children from infants to 8-year olds. Created to purposefully avoid any resemblance to an institution, this unique facility is helping to provide a laboratory for improving the development of the children's potential. (Author)

The study involving 65 school psychologists, 38 special education teachers, and 21 "naive" university students (those not in education or psychology related programs) examined the extent to which school personnel were able to differentiate learning disabled (LD) students from low achievers by examining students' patterns of scores on…

The authors discuss how learning disabled (LD) children's beliefs about themselves may be affected by mainstreaming and how those beliefs may influence their social and achievement related behaviors. Using LD and nonLD elementary and junior high school students, a series of studies examined group differences on a variety of self report and…

Functional measures of reading, spelling, and writing were administered weekly over a 5 week period to 71 fifth grade students. Although 34 of these students had been identified as learning disabled (LD) by their schools and 37 were low achievers who had not been identified as LD, no meaningful differences had been found between their performances…

Research is presented on attention problems in children with learning disabilities, and suggestions for remediating the problems are offered. Variables involved are analyzed according to the setting (teacher-child ratio and lesson type); task (nature, props, and the rules); and teacher communication (number of teacher solicitations or questions,…

The document contains abstracts and major findings of research conducted by the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities on the learning disabled (LD) adolescent and young adult in both school and nonschool settings. Major findings are presented in three sections--cognitive/academic characteristics and setting demands,…

The written language characteristics of 26 learning disabled (LD), 26 low achieving (LA), and 26 achieving (ACH) students in grades 7 through 10 were measured using paragraph writing and topic sentence tasks. Tests of differences between LD and LA Ss revealed that spelling was the only formal feature which was significantly higher in the LA group.…