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Spreen, Otfried – 1988
The book reports on research concerning adult outcomes of childhood learning disabilities (LD). The first part of the study followed 203 Canadian LD children up to the mean age of 18 years. Data included structured interviews, questionnaires, and school records. The second phase continued the follow-up to a median age of 25 years and involved…
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Potential, Learning Disabilities
Eisenpreis, Bettijane – Exceptional Parent, 1974
Described are the initial visit of a parent to a special school to consider placement for her minimally brain injured adolescent son, attitudes of parents and special educators, and ways parents and special educators can facilitate placement. (MC)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decision Making, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
Download full textKinsbourne, Marcel – 1975
A scheme of classification is suggested for physicians faced with various prescriptions for remediation of children with learning disabilities. Three models of the causes of learning disability are suggested: (1) the difference model which stresses normal variability in the pattern of development of mental abilities; (2) the deficit model which…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Development, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
Senf, Gerald M. – 1973
This document describes the present federal effort on behalf of learning disabled children, beginning with its recent history. It traces the field of learning disabilities as a subspecialty within education from 1963, when a steering committee was appointed to organize a symposium on "The Child with Minimal Brain Dysfunction," through the Learning…
Descriptors: Children, Demonstration Programs, Educational Legislation, Exceptional Child Education
Millman, Howard L. – 1969
The activities of a child guidance clinic which diagnoses and treats children with minimal cerebral dysfunction are described. Minimal brain dysfunction is explained, and diagnostic steps are discussed. As a major function of the program, neurological, optometric, auditory, oral, general physical, educational, and psychological evaluations are…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Counseling, Evaluation Methods, Medical Services
Carter, John L. – 1969
Forty-two brain injured boys and 42 non brain injured boys (aged 11-6 to 12-6) were tested to determine the effects of increasing amounts of visual and auditory distraction on reading performance. The Stanford Achievement Reading Comprehension Test was administered with three degrees of distraction. The visual distraction consisted of either very…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Ross, Alan O. – 1976
This book relates laboratory work on learning disabilities to classroom work with learning-disabled children. Separate chapters discuss the concept of learning disabilities, learning disabilities and research on learning, attention and learning, learning disabilities and the brain-dysfunction hypothesis, hyperactivity and the effects of…
Descriptors: Attention, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Hyperactivity
Reiss, Philip – 1975
Provided is an evaluation report of a special education program in New York City designed to improve the reading and arithmetic skills of brain-injured children in mainstream classes (grades 1 through 8). An assessment of the extent to which participants improved in reading and mathematics and a study of the extent to which the actual program…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedZentall, Sydney S.; Zentall, Thomas R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
Hyperactive children in a high-stimulation environment were significantly less active and performed an academically related task no worse than when placed in a low-stimulation environment. Understimulation rather than overstimulation apparently precipitates hyperactive behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Environment, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedColella, Henry V. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1973
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Educational Programs, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedMillman, Howard L. – Child Welfare, 1972
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Development, Learning Disabilities, Minimal Brain Dysfunction
Peer reviewedVega, Arthur; Parsons, Oscar A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Remarks on four flaws in Dr. Woo-Sam's critique which appears in this issue. (MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Differences, Intelligence Tests, Lateral Dominance
Peer reviewedBoll, Thomas J. – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedPutnam, Lillian R. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
The Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test (MPDT) classifies remedial readers into three groups: primary, secondary, organic. This study of subjects aged 7-22 sought to determine if a significant negative relationship existed between (MPDT) scores and reading achievement and if error patterns differ significantly within and between the…
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedZera, David Aloyzy; Lucian, David G. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
This article uses a self-organizing systems (SOS) framework to explain the complexity of learning disabilities (LD) and suggest that traditional classification schema may be inadequate. It explains principles of self-organizing systems and reviews research concerning reading and math disabilities and the roles of language, attention, working…
Descriptors: Attention, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
