Reviewed are approximately 10 research studies done in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on oligophrenia (mental retardation) and effectiveness of teaching methods for oligophrenics. (GW)

Current research on neural mechanisms of learning and memory has implications for training the retarded. (Author)

The authors caution that in neglecting to focus on cognitive training, special education may be denying the very ideology on which it is built. (Author)

Piagetian based curricular attempts in special education may have to begin with a system for representing the individual's current level of behavioral organization and designing environmental interactions that expand the constructions of the individual into reorganized, more complex forms. (Author)

The author reviews cognitive-behavioral approaches to the training of intelligence in the retarded. A proposed structure of intelligent behavior is presented that serves as the basis for classifying the intended foci of the various training programs. (Author)

A brief review of these tests is provided, and it is concluded that the procedures possess a number of characteristics that make the evaluation of change in intelligence a tenuous proposition. (Author)

The Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD) is presented as an approach to the production and measurement of cognitive change. The paper presents three empirical studies illustrating how the LPAD may be applied in solving practical problems with important educational and social implications for teaching handicapped or disadvantaged students.…

Three national evaluation efforts--Head Start, Follow through Planned Variation, and Head Start Planned Variation--are reviewed to examine their effectiveness concerning the trainability of intelligence in disadvantaged children during preschool and elementary grades. The evidence on the effectiveness of these projects is highly controversial, but…

Existing evidence on the Milwaukee Project, an early intervention effort with preschool disadvantaged children, suggests a decline of the experimental children to the level of the untreated controls in those measures, such as school reading, not under the control of the project. (DB)

The training of intelligence is considered as a component of early interventions. The Home-Oriented Preschool Educational (HOPE) experiment is examined, and a currently in progress long term followup study of it is described. (Author)

A theory of cognitive modifiability deals with the phenomenon of low cognitive performance, explains its etiology, and forms the basis for a remedial intervention--Instrumental Enrichment (IE)--that induces changes of a structural nature in adolescents. (Author)

The paper suggests the potential of intelligence theory in guiding the development of educational programs for the mentally retarded. (Author)

An individualized profile of benefits is needed to describe what advantages, profits, and new opportunities are offered by individualized education plans for handicapped students. (Author)

An overview of key features of the Kaufman Assessment Battery (K-ABC) for Children and a history of its development are presented. The discussion covers administration and scoring, standardization, reliability, validity, and educational translation. Some early postpublication research is presented, and conclusions about the possible impact of the…

The article mentions six basic statements about sequential and simultaneous processes which are derived from A. Luria's clinical research. The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children is then judged in terms of these statements. Suggestions for constructing tests which will entail planning as well as simultaneous and successive measures are…