The booklet describes professional skills thought to be essential for teachers of language handicapped children in the areas of diagnosis, instruction, and evaluation. These skills were developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for use with language handicapped children.…

The teacher handbook is intended to provide a complete set of simple diagnostic testing materials in reading for children in kindergarten through third grade. Tests focus on such skill areas as visual discrimination and auditory memory. Included are lists of materials and strategies to be used after the students have been tested and their special…

The increased emphasis on having individual developmental disabilities diagnosed by interdisciplinary teams of professionals has raised complex problems involving time and expense in evaluating a child in his home situation. The John F. Kennedy Child Development Center has a plan to avoid moving professionals to observe a child or to having a…

Children with learning disabilities are considered with reference to educational needs, professional knowledge, characteristics, definition, and incidence. Administrative solutions are then delineated, including early identification, special classes, resource rooms, supportive and consulting personnel, inservice education for regular class…

Because of the increasing use of color in instructional materials at the level of the primary grades, the Health Service Department of the Denver Public Schools became interested in investigating the color vision of 5- and 6-year-olds. A project was established to create color-vision testing methods and to use those methods to ascertain incidence…

Minimal brain dysfunction (MBD) refers to a significant disturbance in several areas of a child's functioning. This condition includes learning disability, lack of motor coordination , auditory and/or visual perceptual disturbances, hyperactivity, and problems in concentration and attention span. Also involved is a heavy overlay of personality and…

The results of a survey of certification requirements for teachers of children with learning disabilities is reported in two parts: (1) responses from 45 state and 9 provincial departments of public instruction in the United States and Canada and (2) responses from 26 colleges and universities. The states are listed alphabetically, and information…

Talks presented by Doris Johnson and Regina Cicci at an institute for teachers of the educationally handicapped are summarized and include identification and remediation of auditory receptive language disorders, disorders of spelling and written language, an analysis of reading methods, an analysis check list, disorders of quantitative thinking,…

The Diagnostic Learning Center (DLC) serves 85,000 children in Cook County, Illinois. Objectives of the program include: (1) to provide diagnostic services for children having severe learning problems in grades one through 12 and related services for the parents of these children, (2) to provide psychological and medical testing for these…

Presented are five papers given at a 1970 seminar on reading difficulty and the intelligent underachiever. In the first paper, Dr. T. D. Hagger discusses the concept of specific learning disabilities and stresses the trend to search for causation in organic factors within the child, the importance of early identification, and the need for…

The basic goal of this program was to provide individually-tailored instruction for more than 70 4-year-old children identified as having potential learning handicaps. Children selected for the program attended small half-day sessions four times a week. Instruction in the areas of language arts, mathematics, science, health, motor skills, and…

This paper describes the Self-Based Competency-Based introductory program in learning disabilities at Arizona State University that is designed to help students develop the basic competencies needed to know and understand why learning disabled children fail to learn. The 391 objectives included in this program were selected to provide students…

Seventy-five teachers working in the area of special education and learning disabilities were administered a 112 item questionnaire concerning instructional and program needs, Participants were from Northeastern Ohio representing the cities of Youngstown, Akron, Kent, and several suburban districts. Also evaluated was a summer workshop attended by…

Presented is the continuation proposal for Title III funding of a program which serves approximately 2,000 kindergarten and first grade children by early identification of learning needs and diagnostic-prescriptive intervention. Program components are given to include comprehensive screening to identify individual needs in the areas of motor…

This technical report describes the evaluation of the first year of Project Upswing, a 2-year experimental study to determine the potential contribution of volunteers in helping young children overcome learning difficulties. The three large groups of first grade children involved received tutoring either from specially trained volunteers,…