Article discusses the child with learning disabilities and how music rhythm has an effect on brain rhythm and thus on brain function. (Author/MM)

Relates the experiences of a remedial teacher in Great Britain with an intermediate grade boy suffering from high frequency hearing loss, perceptual weakness, emotional maladjustment, poor speech, and reading difficulty in attempting to provide a program suited to his particular needs. (MB)

Described is an experimental program in which students with behavioral and/or learning difficulties are helped within the regular classroom by a diagnostic-prescriptive teacher or a crisis-resource teacher. (CB)

Describes a study of children with perceptual difficulties which found that the conditions were (1) psychosomatic in nature; (2) dependent on parent-child relationships; (3) best treated by a combination of group instruction, parent counseling, and play therapy. (AN)

Discussed is psychotherapeutic treatment of children with minimal brain dysfunction. Therapy is directed toward both children and parents. (CB)

Investigated the reading performance of two older adults with acquired dyslexia. The first could read words but not nonwords; the second read nonwords but could not give phonetic sounds. Results supported a lexical phonological strategy which operates independently of semantic processing and nonlexical phonological strategies. (JAC)

The paper presents the position of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities regarding design and implementation of inservice programs for professionals serving learning disabled persons. Recommendations touch on needs assessment, competence of inservice leaders, models, multidisciplinary approaches, and administrative support. (CL)