A study examined the utility of the Mathematics Strategy Training for Educational Remediation (MASTER) program for teaching 42 students with learning disabilities and 42 others with mild mental retardation. Results showed that use of the self-instruction program resulted in significant improvement over the general-instruction program. (Author/CR)

Describes a technique for helping children learn the names of the letters of the alphabet. In the Alphabet Mnemonic System, each alphabet letter is assigned a phrase that will cue the learner to recall the name of the letter. A table is provided of the mnemonic alphabet cues. (CR)

Although the Americans with Disabilities Act forbids discrimination on the basis of learning disability, institutions of higher learning must establish academic achievement standards. A recent case ("Guckenberger v. Boston University") involving course substitutions for a foreign-language requirement illustrates this point. Boston…

Introduces an instructional program designed to teach students with learning disabilities to identify a story theme and relate it to their own real-life experiences. The program focuses on understanding a text as a whole, and integrating text meaning with concepts and experiences that are personally meaningful. (Author/CR)

In the July 1997 issue of "Journal of Law and Education" (EJ 552 042), three professors describe Disorder of Written Expression (DWE) and prescribe that law schools must create appropriate accommodations for students with DWE which do not alter school's basic program of instruction. Reviews this argument, introduces counterpoint (EA 535…

Examined effects of instructing students to read silently as another person reads aloud on comprehension in secondary students with learning disabilities. Fast and slow treatment conditions were implemented with a silent-reading control condition. Differences in results on literal and inferential questions and their implications are discussed.…

This study investigated the hypothesis that examining student performance one time in spring is an adequate method of assessing the effects of long summer breaks or the need for an extended school year. Performance and progress of students with mild mental handicaps varied from students with learning disabilities. (Author/EMK)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may arise when key brain circuits do not develop properly, perhaps due to an altered gene or genes. Describes ADHD in detail and introduces a psychological model of ADHD. (ASK)

Distinguishes between full inclusion and optional inclusion for children with language-learning disabilities (LLD), reviews studies on the outcomes of inclusion, describes a university-school partnership model for educational restructuring, and outlines six reasons why innovative changes, such as inclusion and integrated learning, are difficult to…

Introduces several articles which compose a forum on intervention with older students who have language and learning impairments. Stresses the particular importance of serving these students in the areas of literacy skills and self-regulation strategies. (DB)

Discusses how the Guckenberger v Boston University case illustrates the interaction of the psychometrics of ability differences with the concept of learning disability and with the sociopolitics of schooling and society. Urges a more inclusive definition of learning disability which abandons aptitude-achievement discrepancy requirements and a more…

Suggests shift in school psychologists' diagnostic perspective from one on learning disabilities to one on curriculum disabilities. It is essential, because curriculum disabilities might be a leading cause of pervasive failure in America's schools. Explains three classes of educational tools (textbooks, electronic technology, and other media)…

Offers a framework for improving instructional tools in beginning reading with emphasis on their importance for children with diverse learning needs. Bases rationale on current practices and challenges of increasing diversity in classrooms. Identifies critical dimension or big ideas of beginning reading and relates it to curriculum design…

Presents the selective synthesis of instructional research with children and adolescents with learning disabilities, analyzing studies across instructional domain, sample characteristics, intervention parameters, and sampling procedures. Synthesis indicates that reading is the most researched domain, and intervention studies that produce the…

The authors of an earlier article, which argued that the social skills deficits typically found in children with learning disabilities (LD) are largely due to the comorbidity of LD with psychiatric disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depressive disorder, respond to a critique that did not find this relationship…