The four Peabody Language Development Kits emphasize reception, expression, and conceptualization in organized lessons (180 in each kit) for disadvantaged and mentally retarded children, 3 through 9 1/2 years of age. (MC)

The Miami Linguistic Readers, which are comprised of 21 paperbound books grouped in 15 levels, concentrate on sounds and structure of standard American English for teaching linguistically handicapped or disadvantaged children before and during the teaching of basic reading skills. (MC)

The approach to learning disabilities emphasizes the potential for learning by any organism in extraordinary environmental conditions regardless of the severity of the handicap. (MC)

Compared were the visual-emphasis, auditory-phonic, kinesthetic, and Orton-Gillingham methods of remedial reading which were used singly with four groups of third graders (for a total of 136 students). (Author/MC)

Proposed is an approach to child development which holds that intellectual capacity, neuromuscular development, language development, and temperament are overlapping areas; and considered are often unrecognized behavioral aspects of temperament. (MC)

Eighteen boys, 10 to 11 years of age, with learning disorders were compared with normally achieving boys on an attention demanding task under the conditions of constant stimulation and stimulus change. (Author/MC)

A sample of 162 fifth grade students were grouped as good, average, and poor readers on the basis of a standardized reading test to determine whether a relationship existed between binocularity and reading performance. (Author/MC)

In a study to determine whether learning disabilities can be predicted from kindergarten teachers' anecdotal reports, 37 boys later diagnosed as learning disabled, were selected and their kindergarten class identified. (Author/MC)

An overview of research on the relation between measurable perceptual-motor skills in young children and academic success reveals a primitive state of the art. (Author)