A survey of 222 grade school children indicates that sex differences in emotional response to failure might further explain the fact that boys have learning difficulties more often than girls, and that girls' relatively more advanced cognitive development is thought to partially account for the situation. (Author/MC)

To bridge the communication gap between clinic and school, the Psycho-Educational Center of Coney Island Hospital prepared prescriptive psychoeducational evaluations of each child referred and followed up by asking teachers and guidance counselors in 38 schools to evaluate reports sent them during 6 months for 56 learning disabled children.…

Reviewed is the MWM program for developing language abilities in learning disabled children 3 to 7 years of age which is explained to be based on the language model of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. (DB)

Described is a workbook designed to help neurologically impaired children and adults in speech and language rehabilitation. (DB)

Summarized are five papers presented at the 1974 conference of the International Federation for Learning Disabilities in Amsterdam. (DB)

College students in an introductory psychology course were offered learning options which depended less heavily on reading skill to obtain course content. (DB)

To help adult students understand the learning disabled child's frustrations, four demonstration techniques, simulating receptive difficulties in the areas of visual, auditory, and tactile discrimination and in problem-solving have been developed. (Author/DB)

Reviewed was the empirical research which compared characteristics of learning disabled children with the academically successful. (Author)

Compared on measures of saradic eye movements were 13 inadequate and 13 adequate readers (both groups all male with a mean age of 10 1/2 years). (Author)