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,…

Analyzed were the academic achievement test scores for approximately 46 language or learning disabled elementary school students receiving instruction in a program based on the resource room concept. The Iowa Test of Basic Skills was administered prior to and following the program. Resource room instruction appeared to have a positive effect upon…

The purpose of this research was to investigate the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) subtest scores of information (IN), arithmetic (AR), digit span (DS), and coding (CO). The subjects were all of the students admitted to and remaining in the Seattle Public School District #1 Learning/Language Disability (LLD) Program since…

Intended for regular elementary and secondary teachers, the South Dakota curriculum guide presents motivating activities to stimulate speech development of under-communicating, gifted, experientially different, or average students. Suggested situations are reported to be coordinated with South Dakota literature, the best of children's literature,…

Described are the development of "Findings Kids with Special Needs" (FKSN), a instrument to identify children's learning problems and gifted students; results of field testing with 24,825 children, kindergarten through grade 8, in 110 schools; and validation procedures. Discussed is test construction, including incorporation of 12…

The handbook classifies and describes over 700 programs and services for students who, due to behavioral, motivational, or organic impairments, are considered underachievers in the regular educational system. Listed by state are private schools which are primarily academic in nature; schools which are more specialized to treat and educate children…

Three short studies were conducted on long-term effects of visual perception training on perceptual memory, involving the visual illusion of apparent movement, in educable and trainable mentally retarded children (EMR and TMR) and in learning disabled children (LD). Variables were lengths of training session and retention interval. Tables…

A review of research literature on the subject of dyslexia printed since 1955 is presented, concentrating on the interest in the subject during the late 1960's. The authors initially admit that precise definition of the term dyslexia is quite impossible (they use the term to mean the inability to read) and devote chapters to describing problems…