The article presents a case study of the educational training program used with a 10-year-old (when first seen) learning disabled boy. The study covers the teaching methods used during a three-year period and includes followup data for over 12 years from the onset of therapy. (PHR)

Describes the rationale and techniques of a therapy program designed to keep children with behavior and learning problems in regular classrooms for part of the school day. (BRT)

A case study of an 8th grade girl illustrates the effect of emotional problems on math deficiencies. Suggestions are given for building confidence and mathematics comprehension. (DB)

Responses from 82 learning disabilities/behavior disorders (LD/BD) teachers were studied to investigate their understanding of the use of drug therapy with LD/BD students. (PHR)

Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disability characterized by difficulty in learning to read. Some dyslexics also may have difficulty learning to write, to spell, and to speak or work with numbers. Some researchers estimate that as many as 15 percent of American students may be classified as dyslexic. Children with dyslexia are not all…

The Diagnostic Cognitive/Academic Therapy Program at Newington Children's Hospital (Newington, Connecticut) was designed to accommodate learning-disabled adults with different levels of education, rates of achievement, information processing styles, social backgrounds, and personalities, and to provide services in clinic, home, and work-site…

Suggests that the great increase in recent years in the number of "special children" is due to a change in the criteria used to label a child as having a "learning disability" and argues that a "special child's" best chances for successful therapy are in an out-patient situation in which there is close coordination with the home. (Author/JM)

The most difficult method of consultation to schools in socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods is administrative consultation on centered programs and related to community issues. Yet it is an essential approach in dealing with the children's learning disabilities. (Author/ST)

A list is presented of 70 typical academic problems of learning-disabled children that special educators must be able to diagnose and remedy. The problems are categorized as follows: reading, language, spelling, handwriting, arithmetic, thinking, and school task and behavior problems. (JDD)

This article outlines learning patterns which can identify the gifted learning-disabled and discusses the importance of early diagnosis, the importance of the student's participation in programs for the learning-disabled as well as for the gifted, and recommendations for helping the student succeed. (JDD)

Art therapy enhances the cognitive abilities of most students no matter how severely affected they may be. It also provides an emotional outlet and opportunity to gain self-worth. Schools would do well to seek out educator-therapists in the arts to serve the special needs of mainstreamed children. (LHW)

This article discusses health fraud in special education. Psychopathology of health fraud, standards by which pseudoscience and quackery are defined, and the complexities of learning disorders are considered. A scale to determine whether an alternative therapy is reasonable is presented. Several popular therapies are used as examples. (Author/PB)