Once identified, slow learners can benefit from the following approaches: child-centered education; established classroom rules; simplified textbooks and instructional materials; focus on familiar current events; and use of the unit approach, the inquiry approach, community resources, dramatic plays, self-directed free time, student research,…

Perceptual-motor coordination is an important area of development for the slow learner, and a carefully planned music program provides assistance by strengthening hand-eye and eye-hand development. (CM)

TRANSITION is so named because it allows children to make a gradual passage from kindergarten into first grade. One school year is spent between these two grades in a success-oriented atmosphere. (Author)