The paper presents a case study of a successful elementary school peer tutoring program for learning disabled and slow learning students (first to fourth grades) having difficulties with math facts. Ten tutors in third to sixth grades were selected as tutors and trained by the resource teacher to use such strategies as praise, correction, and…

A study was conducted to determine the advantages and disadvantages of using computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with learning disabled (LD) adults attending California community colleges. A questionnaire survey of the directors of the LD programs solicited information on the availability of CAI for LD adults, methods of course advertisement,…

Presented in the third of four papers on Project SCREEN, an Illinois program to identify and remediate learning disabilities, are results of an in-depth study of services provided by five special education cooperatives (consisting of two or more school districts). (DB)

Two experiments were conducted with a total of 30 learning disabled third grade children to examine the effects of tutoring location and teacher supervision on the efficacy of cross-age tutoring for LD children. (Author/DB)

Examined were the characteristics of over 3000 children (median age 8 years 10 months) enrolled in Child Service Demonstration Centers for Learning Disabilities in 21 states. (Author/DB)

Although there are many remediation materials for learning disabled children available commercially, with more being produced none are as universally available or as economical as comic strips. (Author)

This article encourages school counselors to assume a key role in becoming involved with learning disabled students. The counselor can serve as an advocate for the student in insuring close home-school interaction and cooperation. Specific counselor functions designed to aid the learning disabled are suggested. (SJL)

The case history focuses on diagnostic and treatment procedures used to treat an institutionalized adult male found to have a disorder of auditory integration associated with severe language disability. (Author/LS)

Compared two groups of children know to be poor readers, those with adequate perceptual functioning and those without, to determine what inadequate perceptual functioning is related to the severity of the reading and adjustment problems. Inadequate Bender performance was related to a more severe reading problem. (Author/PC)

In this article, the author notes that despite their increasing size and sophistication, special education programs have not been successful for the majority of their students. He suggests a possible reason - the ways special educators relate to the regular personnel of schools. (Editor/RK)

Presented is a list of multisensory activities for teaching the alphabet in three letter increments over a 1 week period to children with educational, instructional and moderate intellectual handicaps. (CL)

Direct daily measurement of students' performance was used as an independent variable to determine its effect on the learning of six primary level learning disabled children. (Author/DB)

A psychological and pedagogic study was made of a group of 22 children between the ages of 7 and 12 years in whom the only abnormal feature in the case history was neonatal cerebral effects. (Author)