In a study to determine if a classroom teacher with understanding of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities could predict subtest scores comparable to those obtained from administration of the test itself, seven masters-level special educators evaluated 28 learning disabled (LD) children (ages 6 through 11 years). (PHR)

For availability, see EC 103 600 Provided is an overview of the programs of each of five research institutes for the study of learning disabilities, located at the following universities: University of Illinois (Chicago), Columbia University (Teachers College), University of Kansas, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia. (IM)

The author offers guidelines for implementing programs for learning disabled (LD) adolescents. (CL)

Investigated with 46 learning disabled children (mean age 8 years) was the effect of training paradigmatic language structures on the reading process. (Author/CL)

Available from: Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091.

The evidence available so far generally refutes the claim that artificial food colorings in the diet substantially aggravate the behavior of children with learning disability and hyperkinesis. (JD)

Listed are the objectives needed to be achieved by specific learning disability interns in order to be ready to assume a teaching position in the field of specific learning disabilities. (JYC)

Using a classroom discussion of the human digestive system as an example, the article promotes the idea that demonstrating abstractions in concrete experiential terms permits the learning disabled youngster to discover concepts for himself, which is the best possible learning experience. (JYC)

Listed are definitions of auditory processes (such as auditory discrimination, auditory memory, and auditory perception) and suggestions for improving auditory skills. (JYC)

A procedure, employing a tachistoscope, is presented to enable teachers to identify the nature of arithmetic difficulties. (Author/SBH)

Screening for learning disabilities in preschoolers. (DAG)

Described is a transactional analysis card game used to structure weekly therapy groups for students 12 to 19 years old in the special education school for the emotionally disturbed at Dorthea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. (JG)

Waterlearning, in which water supplements the classroom as the learning center, provides an alternative through which skills and concepts can be taught to learning disabled students for whom regular teaching methods are often ineffective. (SBH)

Analysis of arithmetic problem-solving difficulties among secondary school learning disabled students (N=63) indicated students had the most difficulty with problems of the indirect type and problems that contained extraneous information. Teaching suggestions are offered. (Author/DB)