Article addressed to preschool teachers, day care workers and Head Start personnel, who are called upon more and more often every day to help identify potential handicaps in the young children they serve. (Authors)

An evaluation of how successful services rendered the classroom teacher in the form of in-service training for those recommending children to the Diagnostic Learning Center were. (Author)

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)

Article focuses on the learning of specific reading skills; discusses procedures for identifying individual needs, and ways to set up and keep individual pupil records; and cites sources (of). . .more detailed ideas." (Author)

This paper reports the results of a recent study of the perceptions and attitudes about mental illness of 360 teachers in two rural North Carolina counties. A comparison of the results of this study with others conducted in the 1950's suggests that teachers are better able than the general public to identify symptoms of mental illness." (Author/SE)

Article explores need for improvement in teaching the process of diagnosis as cruicial to delivery of appropriate medical care. (IR)

Recommends the use of a combination analytic-synthetic approach to phonics instruction, preceded by pretesting to determine the student's stage of phonic skill development. (RW)

An intervention framework for the management of communication disorders in learning disabled children is presented. The model is comprised of three components: communicative intentions (what a speaker wants to convey), presupposition (a speaker's message in relation to specific information needs of a listener), and the social organization of…

Research on understanding mathematics is discussed in relation to teaching. Examples from research are used to illustrate features of the teaching design: diagnosis and the relevance of context, feedback, intensity of experience and mastery criteria. (MNS)

"Beat the Record," a structured math testing/learning station activity, directs the learning disabled student's emphasis from a specified goal to one that surpasses a previous achievement. The student is motivated to participate in the testing process, and the teacher controls the variables which reduce performance (materials, physical setting).…

Recent trends in physical education programs show a diverse spectrum of clients and an increasing amount of health-related litigation. These developments call for increased emphasis on exercise prescription. The sit-up is used in an example of a step-by-step guide to prescriptive technique. (JN)