Abstract
Children with Learning Disabilities: A Five-Year Follow-up Study, by Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz, 218 pp, with illus, $9.75, New York: Grune & Stratton, Inc., 1971. Progress in Learning Disabilities, vol 2, edited by Helmer R. Myklebust, 404 pp, with illus, $13.75, New York: Grune & Stratton, Inc., 1971. Dyslexia, learning disability, minimal brain dysfunction, hyperkinetic syndrome, emotional disturbance, perceptual handicap, and brain injury are some of the diagnoses applied to children who, despite approximately normal intelligence, have great difficulty learning and behaving appropriately in school. These youngsters, formerly considered lazy, stupid, or bad, have recently been recognized as handicapped. In the past few years, workers in many fields have been investigating their problems, trying, without much success, to discover the causes and cure. Nearly everyone agrees that the major burden of treatment falls on educators, but also involved are physicians, especially pediatricians, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists, as well as psychologists, speech
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