This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effect of a questioning strategy on reading comprehension and attitudes towards reading of secondary school remedial readers; (2) enhancing memory for expository prose; (3) reading disability, language impairment, and reading strategies; (4) dyslexia; (5) the identification and stability of subtypes of disabled readers; (6) the reading skills of the cleft palate child; (7) psychological issues in presumed nonorganic reading problem children; (8) the effects of language training on the reading fluency, written expression, and listening ability of educable mentally handicapped adolescents; (9) diagnosis and treatment in reading; (10) the influence of research on clinical practices in university reading centers; (11) the effect of remedial reading instruction on academic achievement of junior college freshmen; and (12) the influence of parent-child and parent-school relations on the reading achievement of Title I compensatory education students. (FL)