Two experiments with one 10-year-old and four 9-year-old dyslexic boys were conducted that dealt with phonics skills and the relationship of phonics behaviors to oral reading. (Author/MC)

To bridge the communication gap between clinic and school, the Psycho-Educational Center of Coney Island Hospital prepared prescriptive psychoeducational evaluations of each child referred and followed up by asking teachers and guidance counselors in 38 schools to evaluate reports sent them during 6 months for 56 learning disabled children.…

Described is a workbook designed to help neurologically impaired children and adults in speech and language rehabilitation. (DB)

To help adult students understand the learning disabled child's frustrations, four demonstration techniques, simulating receptive difficulties in the areas of visual, auditory, and tactile discrimination and in problem-solving have been developed. (Author/DB)

Reviewed was the empirical research which compared characteristics of learning disabled children with the academically successful. (Author)

The rated inventory, a behavior analytic approach, is offered to supplement inadequate norm based and/or grade referenced assessment techniques in the development of precision teaching programs for students in all levels of reading. (MC)

This complete text of committee hearings presents testimonies on learning disabilities and their relation to juvenile delinquency. (Author/LEB)

The author discusses potential problems and benefits for learning disabled (LD) students in the year 2000. Considered are developments in three areas: human engineering (such as the role of amniocentesis in prevention of disabilities), education (including new audiovisual technology and a restructuring of secondary education), and human…

The dichotic listening paradigm in relation to specific reading disability was investigated with 58 severely disabled readers and 58 above-average readers (all 9-year-old males). Comparison of scores from a Dichotic Digits Task and Dichotic Sides and Types Tasks indicated that disabled readers performed worse than controls in the overall right-ear…

The Systematic Instructional Management Strategies (SIMS) program for severely learning disabled junior high school students is described. Reviewed are the following aspects of this interdisciplinary program: case management (including the development of Individualized Education Programs); curriculum (including reading and spelling, written…

Described is an interdisciplinary mainstreaming program for individualizing instruction for secondary learning disabled students, utilizing resource facilities in grades 7-9 in eight separate centers throughout Franklin County, Missouri. Aspects of this program--such as the developmental and by-pass strategies of instruction employed to help…

A study involving 1,337 students in Arizona was conducted to compare the classification of learning disabilities across several school districts, utilizing the then-proposed Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH) formula. Three types of problems were apparent: the basic concept of learning disability varied across districts; the areas of…

Evaluated was the extent to which 101 primary grade and preschool Canadian teachers were satisfied with existing screening and testing services for children with possible learning disabilities. Results of the questionnaire indicated that 79% of the teachers believe that testing beyond the assessments carried out in the classroom is a good idea,…

An optometrist hypothesizes that poor reading skills stem from a child's inability to discern relationships among objects, people, concepts or instructional materials and suggests that physical problem-solving tasks that utilize several sense modalities simultaneously provide effective remedial treatment. (LH)