The position statement of the Board of Trustees of the Council for Learning Disabilities opposes the inclusion of nonhandicapped low achievers and underachievers in learning disability programs and recommends that these students be served within the regular education program. (DB)

Normal (N=58) and learning disabled (N=52) primary grade children were classified into five groups (overachievers, target achievers, under achievers, slow learners, and disabled achievers) based on IQ-achievement and age-achievement discrepancies and followed over a 3-year period. Learning disabled students became more disabled with age in spite…

The study applied a standard-score and regression-analysis procedure to achievement-potential discrepancy data for new learning disability placements of about 90 (LD) learning disabled students. Results indicated that only two-thirds of the initially placed students exhibited a severe discrepancy suggesting the frequent placement of slow learners…

A computerized map tutorial and a more traditional atlas based instructional method to teach geographic locations were compared with 15 remedial and 12 learning disabled grade nine students. The computerized map tutorial produced significantly higher performance for both groups of students and there were no significant differences between the…