Conducted descriptive study with college students with learning disabilities (n=40). Results provided overview of students specific support service needs. Overwhelming needs of learning-disabled students in this study fell into areas of study strategies and written expression. Discusses implications for college student affairs personnel.…

The paper reviews the literature on teachers' perceptions of sexual differences among learning-disabled students. It was concluded that perceived sex differences tend to compound the problems of learning-disabled students with boys rated substantially higher on conduct and behavior problems and girls as more withdrawn. (DB)

SHOP, or Search Handicapped Outreach Program, identifies gifted/learning-disabled students, develops enrichment activities using J. Renzulli's Triad Model, and implements effective delivery models to provide an environment in which the students can utilize their strengths and interact with gifted peers. (JDD)

A mother recounts the first experience of her 5.5-year-old son who has muscular dystrophy and learning disabilities with mainstreaming in a summer day camp. (DB)

Assisted and unassisted performance of 14 average readers and 14 readers with learning disabilities (ages 10-13) were compared on a reading comprehension task. The groups differed in how easily they learned to find the main idea under different topic sentence placement conditions, with the learning-disabled readers requiring significantly more…

Examined differences in home environment scores among educable mentally retarded, learning-disabled, emotional/behavior disordered, and nonhandicapped students. Found differences in home environments, independent of socioeconomic status. Home environments for learning-disabled and nonhandicapped students were rated significantly higher than home…

Investigates the written syntax of 81 college-able individuals demonstrating a specific learning disability. Supports a control impairment hypothesis, predicting that sentence production errors will be of the same kind as found in the language of writers demonstrating no handicapping conditions. Investigates the correlation of specific cognitive…

This article proposes use of a life-span developmental perspective in research on adults with learning disabilities. Considerations for incorporating such essential concepts as mediating variables, context, and age-span phases into research on this population are discussed. (DB)

Research indicates that students with learning disabilities may experience significant difficulty with taking notes during teacher lectures. Approaches for helping students include task accommodations (such as taping the lectures or purchasing notes) and notetaking skill/strategy instruction (such as paraphrasing, outlining, using abbreviations,…

Presents case of fourth-grade boy with learning disability that keeps him from being able to read at his own ability level. Examples of the student's writing (prose and poetry) are included. Presents steps in plan to encourage student to continue writing and to improve in his ability to write. (NB)

Describes Green Chimneys, therapeutic residential farm education and treatment center where animals help troubled children and adolescents. Contends that human-animal bond can promote learning and that nurturing animals and receiving back unconditional attention and love reestablishes the worth of the child. Describes residents of the program, a…

Discusses the definition of cooperative learning; cooperative-learning groups and learning disabilities; cooperative-learning methods used in reading and in writing; and perspectives on cooperative-learning groups. (RS)

Achievement and intelligence test scores of a nonclinical sample of adopted and nonadopted Colorado children were compared at 7 years of age (n=415) and 12 years of age (n=230). Results provided little or no evidence for an increased risk of learning disabilities in "easily placed" adopted children. (Author/JDD)

Expectations for the future of students with mental retardation (n=93), learning disabilities (n=158), or students without disabilities (n=178), were examined. Students with mental retardation were significantly less hopeful than were their peers with learning disabilities or without disabilities. Students with learning disabilities were less…

Discusses the challenges of sexuality education for students with specific learning disabilities and reviews the content of a program designed to teach human sexuality to this population. The critical role of parents/families is discussed, a course outline is provided, and a list of possible resources is given. (Author/CR)