This digest reviews what is known about adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners and learning disabilities, suggests ways to identify and assess ESL adults who may have learning disabilities, and offers practical methods for both instruction and teacher training. Topics covered in some detail include identifying and diagnosing learning…

This digest summarizes the issues involved in the instruction of college students with learning disabilities and offers a practical approach to teaching these students. It notes first that disability law at the college level is not as prescriptive as that for the elementary secondary level. Since the instructional climate in higher education is…

This report discusses the Regular Education Initiative (REI) and how it is currently being implemented in a middle school in Illinois, how it potentially benefits students, and how to promote use of accommodations by all teachers. Accommodations and modification appropriate to the Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) of nine students with…

This paper examines differences between students with and without learning disabilities (LD) in processing social information within the context of a social information processing model. It proposes that language problems may not be the sole cause for poor social skills in students with learning disabilities and suggests that social remediation…

This book examines the characteristics and educational needs of unmotivated adolescents. It suggests that many of these students suffer from low self-esteem and are learning disabled and/or have an attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity. It offers a definition of learning disabilities that emphasizes the presence of significant differences…

Described are the effects on auditory skills, reading scores, and oral English skills of use of the Peabody Language Development Kit with 23 learning disabled primary grade children from French speaking homes. (DB)

A program of motor and kinesthetic games was used to decrease the print phobia of 20 dyslexic boys. (DB)

Thirty-six learning disabled and 36 emotionally disturbed children in elementary school and 18 emotionally disturbed children in institutions were examined to determine whether four instruments would differentiate the handicapping conditions manifested by the groups. (MC)

Article considered a method for helping children with physical, intellectual or emotional problems to learn without the constant frustration of failure. (Author/RK)

An interaction process analysis was designed to record the task-oriented and social behavior of five learning disabled (LD) and five normal children in third grade classrooms and of only the LD children in sessions with the LD specialist. (MC)

Presents an overview of past approaches to language arts, current thinking, and results of a preliminary study suggesting practical routes for implementing the new research findings in the classroom. (CS/Author)

The parent of a 2 1/2-year-old language handicapped boy describes the therapist's and her own prescriptive teaching techniques during a 1-year period. (MC)

Brooklyn's Public School 83, reestablished in 1968, is especially designed to treat children with emotional, behavioral and learning problems and enable them to return to classes in regular schools. The author believes special schools are preferable to special classes within existing schools. (Editor)

Highlighted are the plight of learning disabled adolescent boys whose schools offer no special programs and whose medical prescriptions call for military school placement, and the plight of parents who are not allowed military school expense deductions by the Internal Revenue Service. (MC)