Reading provides the major focus this month. Marlowe, Egner, and Foreman provide a study on reading comprehension; Jackson describes a procedure for teaching word recognition to nonreaders, and Williamson examines the concurrent validity of the Wide Range Achievement Test.The Programs, Materials, and Techniques column is pleased to report a study by Stowitschek and Stowitschek on handwriting performance, a rarely examined basic skill. The final issue is one central to this column, the question of assessment and treatment validity by Hofmeister. -D.A.S.
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