It is essential that time and effort be spent in order to better understand the issues and impact of learning disabilities in adolescence. (PHR)

The regulations implementing Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) raise several concerns about their implications for the learning disabled secondary student. (PHR)

A survey of 301 randomly selected local education agencies was undertaken in order to estimate the availability and types of special services currently provided to specific learning disabled adolescents, the identification and placement procedures used, and the primary problems in service delivery. (PHR)

The use of directive cues to facilitate recall and clustering of verbal materials in good and poor readers is investigated. Overall results indicate strong and positive effects of directive cues on the subjects' recall and organization of memory, and indicate that poor readers are unadaptive learners who appear to have a performance deficit,…

Subtest scores on the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children did not clearly distinguish learning disabled children from other children in a study; a diagnostic model is proposed here which considers how a child organizes information in order to distinguish between content and behavioral deficiencies. (Editor/MM)

Children with visual or auditory reading disorders and normally achieving children performed visual and auditory recognition tasks, with visual or auditory distractors presented. With distractors, learning disabled groups made more errors and did not improve over trials as much as controls. All groups made more errors when task and distractor were…

The reliabilities of several commonly used instruments of intellectual, academic, and affective assessment were tested with learning disabled children between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS)

The language competency of learning disabled (LD) children as it relates to social situations demanding interpersonal communication skills was examined in 28 LD and normal elementary school children. (DLS)

A study involving 732 preschoolers was conducted to determine the extent to which children identified on preschool readiness test as "high risk" for development of learning disabilities demonstrate low achievement in basic school skills by the time they have completed several years of elementary school. (SBH)

A remedial handwriting instruction package, which used a programing procedure to adapt conventional worksheets and workbooks, was evaluated with 34 learning disabled primary aged children and 11 teachers. (CL)

The article discusses bibliotherapy as a classroom method to help meet personal, social, and emotional needs of learning disabled (LD) adolescents. (PHR)

Two studies are described in which match-to-sample tasks were presented to a total of 50 children (seven to eight years old), both poor readers and good readers. (Author/BD)

The study, involving 12 poor and 12 good fourth grade readers, tested the effects of context on the identification of high-frequency words. (BD)