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In being asked to make a contribution to a conference on ‘Learning Disabilities’ from within the topic area ‘Psychomotor aspects,’ we were confronted with three sources of constraint: 1. Whiting’s (1980) recent statements about the limited applicability of knowledge gained from the experimental skill laboratory to what we will call the more meaningful ‘messy world of real affairs.’ 2. The unclear relationship that may exist between the psychomotor literature and the problems of learning. 3. The extremely short time that was available between the receipt of the invitation to make a contribution to the conference and the necessity to prepare a paper having at least some relevance to the conference theme. This you may appreciate, to people not actually involved in the field of learning disabilities presented major difficulties.

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