Reviewed are four tests which classroom teachers can use to assess language performance of learning disabled students, and described are three language programs. (CL)

A seven-year-old emotionally disturbed boy with some features of the hyperkinetic syndrome was placed on a double-blind placebo control program to assess the effects of psychoactive medications (Ritalin and Dexedrine) on academic and social behaviors. (Author)

Cited is research which indicates that ocular motor abnormalities in children with reading difficulties are factors in the processing of visual information. (CL)

Eleven graduate students who had registered for an elective course in art therapy worked under supervision with 11 unselected learning-impaired children (7-11 years old). (Author)

In an attempt to refine the definition of learning disabilities, a new term, dyssymbolia is proposed. (CL)

Discussed are the major areas that must be considered as part of the total development of a resource room program for learning disabled middle school students. (SBH)

Rational-emotive education provides a positive, constructive approach for helping young children with learning problems who have psychogenic overlays to cope with worries and troubles effectively and to accept themselves affirmatively. (Author/SBH)

The author, searching for possible neurological anomalies behind a learning disability, focuses on the theory that faulty lateralization is implicated in reading difficulties. (Author)

The author has attempted to identify a number of misconceptions regarding the concept of learning disabilities in childhood and youth and to counterbalance these with statements based on historical, research, or theoretical facts. (Author/SBH)

Two responses to the Federal definition of learning disability in the proposed regulations for Public Law 94-142 are presented. (CL)

Presented are some of the ways in which the National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped can provide services to the teachers of the handicapped and developers of educational materials. (Author)

Described is a simulated reading activity which learning disability (LD) teachers can use to help classroom teachers experience the anxieties, frustrations, and failures that LD students experience under group norm instruction. (CL)