The position paper of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD) examines issues in identification and intervention with regard to preschool learning disabled children. Identification issues cluster around at-risk indicators, the importance of systematic observations, and the use of screening instruments and procedures such as…

The final report describes the results of the first year of a 3-year project investigating the effects of using handicapped students as tutors. Detailed descriptions are provided of two main experiments in which learning disabled and intellectually handicapped students tutored students from the regular classroom in sign language and reading. Both…

Although mild retardation is generally assumed to be an inherited trait, socio-cultural factors, such as deprived cultural environment, health-threatening conditions, and school labeling processes exacerbate the problems of the learning disabled child. In this booklet, the causes of mental retardation are considered, and techniques and strategies…

Explores causes of nonlearning in young children, the problems of mechanical, unimaginative learning, and the differences between precocity and maturity. (ED)

An experimental test on beam walking (for balance), administered to 189 minimally brain injured and 226 educable mentally retarded (EMR) 8- to 13-year-old children, yielded results such as reliability estimates for the mean of three trials were high and there was greater performance reliability for EMR children. (MC)

The Learning Problem Indication Index an instrument intended to help identify the preschool child with potential learning problems, was evaluated with 432 children (ages 4 to 19 years) from varying backgrounds referred to the Pupil Appraisal Center at North Texas State University. (DB)

Fifty-eight kindergarten and primary grade teachers (from both a suburban, middle socioeconomic status (SES), Anglo community and an urban, low SES, black community) were individually interviewed in order to determine their perceptions of children's behavior indicative of educational high risk. (LC)

A survey of 222 grade school children indicates that sex differences in emotional response to failure might further explain the fact that boys have learning difficulties more often than girls, and that girls' relatively more advanced cognitive development is thought to partially account for the situation. (Author/MC)

Reported are results of nutritional treatment (to correct deviant blood sugar curves) on the behavioral and academic performances of 260 children and young adults with wide ranges of learning and behavioral problems. (MC)

Presented is the administrative and resource personnel kit developed as part of Project TEAM (Teacher Encouragement to Activate Mainstreaming) to improve attitudes and skills of regular secondary teachers working with educable mentally retarded or educationally handicapped students. Sections of the kit include an introduction, a listing of the…

This dissertation presents a systematic review of literature published from 1861-1974 and available in English which deals with children who may be classified as learning disabled by current federal law. The purposes of the review were to trace the studies of behaviors related to learning disabilities, to identify key studies on which later…