Designed to assist in the development or improvement of programs for children with learning disabilities, the text includes the following discussions: an introduction to children with these disabilities; a new look at learning disabilities; parent and professional relations; the national problem of learning disabilities; the role of the physician in early diagnosis and management; psychiatric disability and learning problems; rehabilitation and community programs; the psychologist and case finding; testing; auditory processes; visual perception and early education; a psychoeducational and physiological approach to the dyslexias; the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities; a controversial view of reading; delinquency and learning disabilities; case finding, treatment, and the teacher; program administration; and Michigan's perceptual development program. Parent organizations are listed. (RJ)