[Promoting reading and spelling in children with computer programs].

Objectives And Methods: Sixteen students trained their reading and spelling skills with the computer programmes Budenberg 1 and 2 and the Comles Package for 1000 minutes over a one-month period.

Results: Following one month of computer training, reading test scores had improved for seven of the 16, and spelling test scores for three children whose basic performance had been poor. Three and a half months of school instruction later, the reading test scores had improved for nine children, while there was no effect upon the spelling scores for most of the students.

[Discriminant analytic determination of prognostic variables from child psychiatric examination for school achievement in special education studies].

Scores on tests administered to learning disabled children in grade one during their examination by a child psychiatrist were analyzed for their predictive value with regard to the children's subsequent academic careers and type of school later attended. Upon starting school the learning disabled children exhibited marked deficits in intelligence and language and motor development. Variables predictive of the type of school to be attended later were intelligence scores and motor performance.