Considerations in estate planning for learning disabled children are presented from the perspective of an individual who is both a lawyer and the parent of a learning disabled child. It is suggested that an important goal for parents is to train the child to be able to deal with his/her financial situation. Early training in the habit of saving…

The report examines current problems in assessing and identifying learning disabled students and recommends practices to solve those problems. An initial chapter reviews the reasons for misidentification of this population. Section I presents a summary of identification practices drawn from guidelines of 50 state educational agencies, the District…

Described is a current research project designed to determine which reading instructional techniques are most appropriate for intellectually retarded pupils, learning disabled pupils, or intellectually normal pupils from 8 through 16 years of age. (DB)

Compared on subtests of the Parramatta Test of Developmental Levels for Infant Grades were scores of 150 grade 1 children who had a maximum of five school terms with the Z. Kodaly music program (group K) and scores of 541 previously tested grade 1 children (sample group). (MC)

Evaluated with 18 learning disabled boys (from 6 to 12 years of age) was the diagnostic potential of a vigilance task to evaluate the effects of medication on attention span and distractibility. (DB)

The learning disabled child needs understanding, structure, and assimilation to develop his potential. (DB)

The purpose of this paper is to present some evidence linking malnutrition to physical development, brain development, infection, environment, learning and behavior. (CS)

The various theoretical orientations toward the etiology of dyslexia are evaluated and implications for future research are discussed. (CH)

Assessed were the abilities of 50 normal 5-to 9-year-old children and 30 learning disabled 7-to 9-year-old children to recognize temporal patterns presented visually and auditorially (intramodal abilities) and to vocally produce the patterns whether presentation was visual or auditory (intramodal and cross-modal abilities). (MC)

Offered for the clinical teacher in training or reading specialists in elementary schools is the Pupil Profile of Reading Skills, intended for assessment of 110 specific factors related to the reading process and for translation of objectives into daily tasks. (MC)

Suggested for improvement of academic and social behaviors of learning disabled elementary school children is the Home School Communication Program (used successfully with over 1,000 children in kansas city), which involves teacher assessment of student behaviors daily on 10 cards and parental dispensing of privileges to students for satisfactory…

Audiological assessments were performed on 20 learning disabled students (6-16 years old). Results of Speech Reception Threshold testing and Discrimination Testing indicated that Ss generally scored lower on discrimination tasks, were more affected by the introduction of noise, and showed a greater variability in discrimination performance than 10…

To investigate the effects of distraction, task performance with or without within-task color, holding task complexity constant, was assessed with 25 hyperactive Ss and 22 controls (5 to 10 years old). Two visual-motor drawing tasks, one visual concentration task and a combined visual-motor and visual concentration task were given. Error analyses…