Examination of children with developmental dsygraphia (inability to write) suggests the need to instruct young children in the basic principles of the writing process including phonemic analysis, transcription rules, morphemic analysis, script, and style. (DB)

The phenomenon of imitation is seen to be a powerful but underemployed rehabilitation strategy for use in special education. (Author/DB)

Belgian physician and psychologist Ovide Decroly, keenly interested in language acquisition, devised tests to measure verbal skills in children and campaigned for the adoption of the sentence method rather than the word-building method in teaching reading and writing. (Author/CL)

Provided is a rationale for geometric form drawing developed by Rudolf Steiner as a tool to develop motor coordination, perceptual skills, and cognition for mentally retarded and perceptually handicapped children. (Author/CL)

Investigated was the correlation between socioeconomic status, ethnic group membership, and neurological pathology in a random sample of 508 fourth- and fifth-grade children. (CL)

Reviewed are findings from 60 research studies investigating the relationship of visual discrimination, spatial relations, memory, and auditory-visual integration to school learning. (Author/CL)

A 46-item questionnaire designed to assess teacher attitude toward mainstreaming mildly handicapped students and communication between regular and special education was completed by 230 regular educators and 96 special educators. (Author)