Attaching diagnostic labels to learning disabled children can add to their difficulties. (Author/SBH)

In this critique of the primary school system, the author discusses such things as early identification procedures which can label a normal child "handicapped", and unnecessary competition which causes unhealthy stress--things the author feels help to generate "system-damaged" children who then require special education. (DLS)

Discussed are several instruments designed to assist in making mainstreaming and mainstream support decisions for hearing impaired children. (DLS)

Discussed is the role of the elementary assistance teacher, who is charged with assisting any elementary school child with learning problems. (DLS)

Presented is a history of secondary special education programs in British Columbia, Canada, beginning with the appointment of the Royal Commission on Education in 1958 and focusing on occupational and vocational education. (DLS)

Presented is a discussion--based upon a small-scale survey of the reading needs of adults--of the importance of teaching reading to the learning disabled and those with less severe learning and reading difficulties. (DLS)

Presented at the First National Conference on Learning Disabilities in Ottawa, Canada in October, 1977, the article discusses learning disabilities and their appropriate special educational services in Canada, focusing on the processes of categorization and labeling. (DLS)

Presented is a summary of the work done by R. Waugh in analyzing the teaching and/or improvement of reading comprehension among learning disabled junior and senior high students. (DLS)

The author cites the need for the merger of teachers and researchers in the education of handicapped, particularly mildly handicapped, students. (CL)

Twenty trainable mentally retarded children (6-12 years old) were randomly assigned to three sessions of adult-directed or peer-directed social response training. (Author/CL)

A remedial handwriting instruction package, which used a programing procedure to adapt conventional worksheets and workbooks, was evaluated with 34 learning disabled primary aged children and 11 teachers. (CL)

Fifteen mentally retarded (mean age 13 years), 15 learning disabled (mean age 9 years), and 15 normal (mean age 8 years) boys were equated on mental age, administered the Hagen Central-Incidental Task, and presented a modeling tape for imitation. (CL)

The article describes the computer-based Integrated Civil Engineering System Project planning and control technique and discusses its applicability to a special education instructional product development project. (CL)

Instructional package technology can meet the needs of the aging and aged developmentally disabled person by focusing on specific functional skill instruction by paraprofessionals. (CL)