Presents an overview of past approaches to language arts, current thinking, and results of a preliminary study suggesting practical routes for implementing the new research findings in the classroom. (CS/Author)

The parent of a 2 1/2-year-old language handicapped boy describes the therapist's and her own prescriptive teaching techniques during a 1-year period. (MC)

Brooklyn's Public School 83, reestablished in 1968, is especially designed to treat children with emotional, behavioral and learning problems and enable them to return to classes in regular schools. The author believes special schools are preferable to special classes within existing schools. (Editor)

Highlighted are the plight of learning disabled adolescent boys whose schools offer no special programs and whose medical prescriptions call for military school placement, and the plight of parents who are not allowed military school expense deductions by the Internal Revenue Service. (MC)

Evaluated are four commercial programs and one technique for use with learning disabled children: the KeyMath Diagnostic Arithmetic Test, Learning by Doing, the Peabody Rebus Reading Program, Jumping Up and Down, and the use of a stopwatch. (DB)

Described are four types of problem families who are said to not be suitable for the home program approach to helping children with learning disabilities. (DB)

Case study demonstrates the successful interaction between the medical- therapeutic and the educational-specialist in the evaluation, remediation, and treatment of learning disabilities. (Authors)

Describes a program of psychological services contracted by the Baltimore Archdiocesan Department of Education. (MB)

The study investigated the effect of a videotape instructional routine in combination with contingent application of token reinforcements on attendant child interaction (nine female attendants and five children) in a residential facility for developmentally retarded children. (Author/GW)

Research is reviewed to determine the value of the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception as a predictor of reading performance and whether the Frostig Visual Perception Training Program improves reading performance. (KW)

Presented at the 12th Annual Pre-Convention Session on School Health, Chicago, Illinois, June 21, 1971. Cosponsored by the American Medical Association and the American School Health Association. (Author)