This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: the role of visual pattern perception in the development of children's reading skills; a comparison of students' silent reading, oral reading, and listening comprehension; semantic integration in normal and learning disabled children; grapho-semantic arraying by college freshmen in relation to selected measures of reading comprehension; reading strategies employed by non-proficient adult college students; the use of earliest childhood recollections in attempting to understand classroom behavior of students with reading problems; the correlation between reading ability and self-concept of community college freshmen; a comparison of the way normal and learning disabled students acquire information from orally presented stories; relationships between oral language factors and reading proficiency; learning disabilities as evidenced in low reading ability; the relationship between attitudes toward reading and toward self; reading achievement and attitudinal factors of disadvantaged students; and the relationship of figural analysis ability to reading improvement. (GW)