Presents a rationale and specific suggestions for planning a language development program for students with severe language problems. (DD)

The effect of self-imposed and externally-imposed scheduling on oral reading rate was examined in eight reading delayed students (9 to 12 years old). (SBH)

Discusses aspects of the interdisciplinary stress within the fields of remedial reading and learning disabilities. (MKM)

Reviewed are resources to be used in developing programs to improve motor abilities among learning disabled children with severe motor dysfunction. (MH)

This article discusses the ways of identifying students with learning disabilities and the methods of educating them to become productive adults. (JD)

Investigated with six highly active 4- and 5-year-old Caucasian boys (three Ss labeled by teachers as hyperactive and three controls) was the extent to which inappropriate behaviors and differences in attention span provoked teachers to differentiate between highly active and hyperactive children. (IM)

A survey of the current status of 25 reading readiness tests provides a summary of tests devised or updated over the last 10 years as reviewed in O.K. Buros "The Seventh Mental Measurements Yearbook" (1972), and a review of another six tests which have appeared since 1972. (IM)

Significant increases in body coordination, little change in self-concept, and moderate negative correlations between these variables were found after 12 4- to 12-year old children with perceptual motor deficits participated in an 8-week developmental physical activity program. (Author/CL)

Students repeatedly urged to try harder often suffer from deficits in learning mode that must be identified and remediated specifically before academic performance will improve. (JG)

Twelve children (4 1/2 to 8 1/2 years old) with normal language development, 12 normal adults, and 12 dysphasic children (6 to 9 years old) were tested for their ability to perceive binary sequences of nonverbal auditory stimuli. (Author/SBH)

Teachers rated 1337 elementary school children to determine norms for the Hyperactivity Rating Scale; teacher ratings of 45 hyperactive children, referred by physicians, were also obtained. (Author)

Three groups of learning disabled boys, 23 hyperactives, 25 normoactives, and 14 hypoactives, as well as 31 controls, were studied in grade school, and reevaluated at age 14. (Author/MH)