This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effect of instruction in critical listening on the reading progress of remedial readers; the effects of four tutoring procedures on the oral reading responses of learning disability children; the cost effectiveness of four programs for low income students; the effects of verb inflectional ending acquisition on academically failing children's literal reading comprehension; children's verbal comprehension as measured in psychometric and ecometric coordinate systems; attitudes of remedial reading, learning disabilities, and classroom teachers toward job roles; the effects of transcendental meditation on the reading achievement of learning disabled children; New York State implementation of Title I pupil selection criteria for reading programs; television script intervention as a prescriptive program for adolescent subliteracy; the relationship between teacher and principal attitude and student achievement in Title I reading programs; approaches to teaching reading to adolescent delinquents; long term effects of remedial reading programs; and the use of elementary education majors as reading tutors to disadvantaged children. (GT)