ERIC Number: ED285355
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1984
Pages: 24
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Assessment and Remediation of Reading. Academic Assessment and Remediation of Adults with Learning Disabilities: A Resource Series for Adult Basic Education Teachers.
Hoy, Cheri A.; Gregg, K. Noel
The booklet, fifth in a series, examines the assessment and remediation of reading difficulties in adults with learning disabilities. The section on assessment concerns touches upon reading recognition difficulties, and includes a list of questions for investigating auditory, tactile, and visual processes. Reading comprehension difficulties are also addressed. Remediation approaches are listed for reading recognition skills according to problems in eight areas: auditory, visual, word categories, context clues, comprehension, memory, vocabulary, and specific reading comprehension skills. Resource materials are listed for word attack skills, vocabulary development, and comprehension. (CL)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Auditory Discrimination, Informal Reading Inventories, Learning Disabilities, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Reading Tests, Remedial Instruction, Student Evaluation, Tactual Perception, Visual Discrimination, Vocabulary Development
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Adult and Community Education Unit.
Authoring Institution: Clarke County Board of Education, Athens, GA.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Note: A product of the Five County Adult Education Program. For other titles in this series, see EC 200 289-295.