Three-hundred kindergarten children were screened with a test battery in order to identify children at high-risk of experiencing learning disabilities. (Author/DB)

Braille should be considered as an alternative language for the severely learning disabled student as it is a ready-made language which uses a completely different pathway than that of auditory/visual input. (Author/DB)

Averaged electroencephalic audiometry (AEA) was conducted to evaluate the hearing of 12 children (mean age 8 years 6 months) diagnosed as having minimal brain dysfunction (MBD). (Author)

Ten functionally nonreading subjects were quickly taught letter-sound associations by an object-imaging-projecting method utilizing 26 actual objects found around the home, each object having a name whose beginning sound is a letter sound, and having a form very similar to the letter form. (Author/DB)

Physicians have been treating hyperactivity in children with drugs as if it were a disease instead of a collection of symptoms which require exhaustive diagnostic tests to determine the underlying problem. (DB)

Evaluated with 25 learning disabled (LD) and 25 non LD elementary level children was the Bayesian method to screen children for possible LD, an approach which uses the aggregation of data--objective test scores related to likelihood ratios and a known prior odds ratio. (Author/DB)

Compared were the free recall performances of 30 learning disabled (LD) and 30 normal children (all in elementary grades) when the level of difficulty and/or the material organization were varied. (Author/DB)