Presented is the second year (1972-73) report of the Affton School District's (Saint Louis, Missouri) program (funded under Title III) to provide diagnostic studies of elementary grade learning disabled (LD) children, learning centers in four elementary schools for LD children, and adequate programing to allow LD children to be returned to the…

Presented is the final report of a 2-year (1971-73) project by the Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation and Related Disabilities (ISMMRD) in which a guide was developed for teaching approximately 1,600 mentally retarded and learning disabled students (3 to 21 years old) in the United States Dependent Schools in the European Area…

Presented is the first of 12 instructional kits for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the orientation kit are directions for preassessment tasks for the four…

The effects of an oven timer as an antecedent stimulus on study behavior and concurrent completion and accuracy of reading and writing assignments were investigated for an 8-year-old first grade repeater who lacked motivation. Following baseline observations during which the teacher recorded study behavior and collected assignments with no…

The structure and function of the nervous system as it puts us into contact with our environment is described. Section 1 presents a detailed discussion of the structure of the brain, drawing an analogy to a computer, and discusses the sensory input function. The transport system is then explained in a description of the transmission of sensory…

The purpose of this study was to identify the differences between students who profit from compensatory education programs and those who do not. The study looked at family systems, family interactions, and individual children's behavior from a point of view that subsumes cognitive and communicational style variables which differ from the framework…

Speeches presented at the international convention of the Council for Exceptional Children in Chicago, 1970 are reported. Papers are concerned with medical views of children with minimal brain dysfunction by C. Arden Miller, medical intervention in maladaptive classroom behavior by Kenneth Zike, medical intervention and the pediatrician's role in…

The recent trend in special education toward individualized teaching based on the diagnosis of specific learning disabilities is reviewed. The concern of educators for emphasis on psychoeducational diagnosis to determine learning and behavioral problems, and their remediation, rather than primarily on classification and categorization along…

Described as one of 34 booklets in a series of promising programs on childhood education, the report provides information on the Dubnoff School for Educational Therapy (California). Aspects of the program designed for the educationally disadvantaged are discussed including its origin, nature of the population, parental involvement, objectives and…

Included in the training kit for teachers in the area of learning disabilities are materials developed by Project Lighthouse for experimental field usage to test the materials. The problem of educating children with learning disabilities is summarized, as is Piaget's model of logical activity. The major divisions of the text then deal with the…

The disagreement on terminology used to describe reading difficulties and to classify reading underachievers is illustrated. Some of the research findings on physical, intellectual, emotional, and educational factors which cause reading difficulty are described, with emphasis on replying to questions asked by parents and on clarifying some…

A report of a county committee to investigate programs and problems related to learning disabilities reviews areas which were examined. Consideration is given to the work of the committee and its division into subcommittees, to the dilemma of defining learning disabilities, and to solutions for dealing with handicapped children, including special…

Presented in this paper are findings from research and clinical work conducted over the past seven years that support the following conclusions: "Labels are Useless," which discusses the research in relation to using labels to identify children and concludes that the issue is not the accuracy of the labels--a label is as accurate as its definition…

Reviewed in this paper are some of the aspects of Australian practices and research activities in learning disabilities conducted over the past decade. Special emphasis is given to the diagnosis and treatment of children with severe reading problems. The influence of instruments such as the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities on the…

With increased awareness of the reading problems of college students, more attention in recent years has been focused on dyslexia. No reliable figures exist on the occurrence of dyslexia among college students, but 10 percent is a representative estimate among elementary students; hence there would logically be fewer dyslexic college students.…