The article describes the Learning Disabilities Clinic at Coney Island Hospital (New York) in which parents act as therapists for other learning disabled children and as cotherapists with their own children. (SBH)

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.…

The use of paraprofessionals as tutors for retarded readers has proved successful in reducing the number of school failures. Described here is a program that uses paraprofessionals drawn from the school's neighborhood in order to involve the community in solving some of its problems. This program is a psycho-educational service in a hospital…