The Downriver Learning Disability Center and its ecological approach" which suggests that a learning disability is evidence of a faulty interaction between the child's available learning modalities and his educational eco-system. (Author/RY)

Authors discuss the effects of malnutrition on retardation of mental development and intellectual capacity. Research findings on undernourished experimental animals are cited as well as studies involving children suffering the effects of malnutrition in infancy. (Editor/LF)

The effectiveness of a compensatory education program is dependent upon the recognition and treatment of students' basic visual, auditory, or neurological development problems. (MN)

The Adlerian approach to problems of social and school maladjustment is explained to be psychoeducational with the purpose of teaching, not treating. The case study of a 10-year-old boy thought to have emotional and learning problems is presented in depth. (CB)

Studies published in the 1960's and 1970's are reviewed. (CB)

Described is a procedure of sentence repetition useful in assessing the grammatical performance and linguistic competence of a language handicapped child. (KW)

Precision teaching was used to assess a student's difficulties in math and, after initiating a change in teaching procedures, to evaluate the student's performance to determine the effects of the teaching change. (KW)

Suggests that the interaction of parents with each other and with their child significantly affects the latter's development. A discussion of case studies of brain-damaged and dyslexic children supports the assumption. Bibliography. (RW)

Defines learning disabilities and describes a graduate program to prepare teachers and special service personnel to recognize and teach children with learning disabilities. (RT)