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Presented are nine papers given at a 1973 seminar at the University of Queensland in Australia on the identification and treatment of children with learning disabilities. Noted are recommendations of the Senate Standing Committees on Handicapped Persons and Teaching Education which would require increased numbers of trained teachers and other professionals. Included papers have the following titles: "Some World Trends in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Learning Problems", "School Problems and the Neurologist", "Children with Reading Disabilities", "Helping the Adolescent with Learning Problems", "Organization and Implementation of Individualized Programs Within the Framework of a Junior High School", "Auditory Immaturity as an Educational Handicap", "Prescriptive Teaching of Children with Learning Disabilities", "A Developmental Approach to Identification and Treatment of Children with Minimal Cerebral Dysfunction", and "Queensland Provision for Children with Learning Disabilities -- Performance and Promise". (DB)