“…The experiments reported in this article are part of a continuing series of studies of learning disabled (LD) children who have special difficulties with verbatim retention of sequences of verbal information (Torgesen, in press; Torgesen & Houck, 1980; Torgesen, Rashotte, Greenstein, Houck, & Portes, 1987). Although these children have general intellectual ability in the average range, they perform in the retarded range on tasks that require the immediate recall of sequences of verbal items (digits, numbers, words, letters) that are presented either visually or orally.…”