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Children With Specific Learning Disabilities Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to and contracts with educational institutions, governmental educational agencies and other educational research organizations to carry out a program of: (1) research relating to the education of children with specific learning disabilities; (2) training of personnel to teach such children; and (3) establishing model centers for the improvement of education of these children, these centers to provide testing and evaluation to identify these children, develop programs to meet their special needs, and assist other organizations in making such programs available to other children.

Directs the Commissioner to give special consideration to grant applications proposing innovated means of educating these children.

Requires the Commissioner in making grants and contracts to: (1) seek an equitable geographic distribution of these programs around the nation; (2) make provisions for handicapped children enrolled in non-profit private schools, and (3) insure that Federal grants are not commingled with State and local funds.

Authorizes appropriations of $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $18,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.

Defines "children with specific learning disabilities" to mean children who have a disorder in one or more of the basic physchological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language.

There is one summary for this bill. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.

Children With Specific Learning Disabilities Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to and contracts with educational institutions, governmental educational agencies and other educational research organizations to carry out a program of: (1) research relating to the education of children with specific learning disabilities; (2) training of personnel to teach such children; and (3) establishing model centers for the improvement of education of these children, these centers to provide testing and evaluation to identify these children, develop programs to meet their special needs, and assist other organizations in making such programs available to other children.

Directs the Commissioner to give special consideration to grant applications proposing innovated means of educating these children.

Requires the Commissioner in making grants and contracts to: (1) seek an equitable geographic distribution of these programs around the nation; (2) make provisions for handicapped children enrolled in non-profit private schools, and (3) insure that Federal grants are not commingled with State and local funds.

Authorizes appropriations of $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $18,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.

Defines "children with specific learning disabilities" to mean children who have a disorder in one or more of the basic physchological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language.

There is one summary for this bill. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.

Children With Specific Learning Disabilities Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to and contracts with educational institutions, governmental educational agencies and other educational research organizations to carry out a program of: (1) research relating to the education of children with specific learning disabilities; (2) training of personnel to teach such children; and (3) establishing model centers for the improvement of education of these children, these centers to provide testing and evaluation to identify these children, develop programs to meet their special needs, and assist other organizations in making such programs available to other children.

Directs the Commissioner to give special consideration to grant applications proposing innovated means of educating these children.

Requires the Commissioner in making grants and contracts to: (1) seek an equitable geographic distribution of these programs around the nation; (2) make provisions for handicapped children enrolled in non-profit private schools, and (3) insure that Federal grants are not commingled with State and local funds.

Authorizes appropriations of $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $18,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.

Defines "children with specific learning disabilities" to mean children who have a disorder in one or more of the basic physchological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language.

There is one summary for this bill. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.

Children With Specific Learning Disabilities Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to and contracts with educational institutions, governmental educational agencies and other educational research organizations to carry out a program of: (1) research relating to the education of children with specific learning disabilities; (2) training of personnel to teach such children; and (3) establishing model centers for the improvement of education of these children, these centers to provide testing and evaluation to identify these children, develop programs to meet their special needs, and assist other organizations in making such programs available to other children.

Directs the Commissioner to give special consideration to grant applications proposing innovated means of educating these children.

Requires the Commissioner in making grants and contracts to: (1) seek an equitable geographic distribution of these programs around the nation; (2) make provisions for handicapped children enrolled in non-profit private schools, and (3) insure that Federal grants are not commingled with State and local funds.

Authorizes appropriations of $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $18,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.

Defines "children with specific learning disabilities" to mean children who have a disorder in one or more of the basic physchological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language.