Both senior volunteers and learning disabled preschool children benefitted from the Grandparents Read to Me Project in Lakewood, Ohio. Seniors rarely missed a session and the children began to select books over toys during free time and ask their parents to buy books and read to them at home. (CB)

The future of the learning disability field should include: an expanded focus on adolescents and adults; broader models for understanding behavior and learning; going beyond concepts of diagnosis, treatment, remediation, and individualized instruction; expansion of views of basic skills; and interventions that focus on more than changing people.…

This article describes procedures and materials developed for substitute teachers working in a learning disabilities resource room, including: policy information; schedules; specific student information; classroom procedures; daily plans; and additional or alternative activities. (CB)

For handicapped children the computer is a uniquely valuable tool. The increasing availability of assistive devices is opening up the magical world of computer technology to more and more handicapped children. (LHW)

The need of learning-disabled students for more than extensive practice is discussed. The rigid thinking and error reinforcement that may result are noted, and a solution involving the analysis of students' needs is described in some detail. (MNS)

Sixty learning disabled children (8-11 years old) were randomly assigned to experimental and control conditions; the experimental group leaders were trained in REE (Rational-Emotive Education.) The REE intervention appeared to be beneficial in both enhancing self-concept and encouraging an internal locus of control orientation in LD students.…

A modified Social Performance Survey Schedule was completed by teachers of 534 learning disabled (LD) or socially normal (SN) subjects (ages 8-15). SN subjects were perceived as having significantly more prosocial and significantly less antisocial behavior than LD subjects. Females were perceived as having more prosocial behavior than males.…

Case studies of Puerto Rican, Haitian, and Chinese families are used to illustrate how schools can involve parents of limited English speaking learning disabled students to provide home reinforcers of language skill development. (DB)

The position statement defines and describes a regular education/special education initiative (RE/SEI) and offers recommendations for its implementation. RE/SEI is seen as a system of integrated planning, delivery, and evaluation of the effects of services to all students. (CL)

A study involving 36 (10-12 years) learning disabled (LD) students with reading problems and 36 regular class students matched with LD subjects for reading age demonstrated the benefit of training LD students to use metacognitive activities in reading comprehension. (Author/CL)

Studies examining phonological skills in children with reading disabilities are reviewed. Reading disability appears to be characterized by a severe deficit in phonological skills. Phonological skills are very slow to develop in reading disabled children, while the visual route to the identification of meaning appears to develop significantly…

The construction and refinement of the Yale Children's Inventory (YCI) is described, resulting in 11 scales (eight behavioral and three cognitive). The relationship and content of the three relevant YCI scales (attention, impulsivity, hyperactivity) are compared to the DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) diagnostic categories for attention…

Thirty-six learning disabled children (9-12 years old) participated in a modified Directed Reading Activity, a modified Concept Analysis Activity, and a Worksheet Activity (control). Results indicate that evaluative reading comprehension was more affected by both the modified Concept Analysis Activity and the modified Directed Reading Activity…

A pack of 23 number games was devised for use by all primary grade children, regardless of physical or sensory disability. The games use all or part of a pack of 100 cards. Some experiences with the games are presented, as well as some illustrations of the games. (MNS)

An experiment investigated: (1) how verbalization of subtraction with regrouping operations influenced learning disabled students' self-efficacy and skillful performance; and (2) explored how effort-attributional feedback affected achievement behaviors. Continuous feedback led to high self-efficacy and skillful performance, and effort feedback…