This paper describes the Pre Technical Learning Lab at the Utah Technical College at Provo which is aimed at providing individualized instruction and tutoring to meet the varied needs of the students. The contents include: "Assessment of Student Needs," which discusses pupil teacher conferences, initial reading assessment, reading tests used for…

The Teacher Education: Performance and Field Oriented (TEPFO) program at the University of Washington is distinguished from many other teacher education programs by its emphasis on four factors: clinic-field interaction, performance-based behavior, strong peer relationships among all program participants, and length of the continuous program. The…

The purpose of this study was to survey the provisions for corrective reading in the public elementary schools, particularly in the availability of services, the types of services offered, the degree of satisfaction, and the financial support for remedial programs. A questionnaire was mailed to 412 schools, selected by a stratified random sampling…

This study was an experimental investigation designed to ascertain the effectiveness of a technique for predicting student success in a special reading program. The disparity between a student's score on a reading test taken silently and his score on an equivalent form which was read orally by the investigator as the student read it silently was…

During Public School (PS) 115's 1969-70 academic year, a first-grade class of 27 disadvantaged, inner city youngsters received a special language arts program entitled Alpha One. Alpha One is a commercial initial reading program designed to teach first grade children to read and write sentences containing words of one, two and three syllables, and…

The Delaware County (Pennsylvania) Reading Council's county wide Reading Fair developed positive and enthusiastic attitudes toward books. (JH)

The purpose of this investigation was to study the growth in self-concept of boys who were enrolled in a remedial reading clinic during a six-week summer session. Forty-two boys between the ages of 8 years 0 months and 12 years 12 months who were enrolled in the 1972 summer session of the University of Maryland Reading Clinic served as subjects.…

The purpose of this book is to provide an understanding of both the educational and medical aspects of reading and to show how they are interrelated in reading disabilities. The various aspects of reading disabilities are presented in the following chapters: Introduction to the Reading Problem; Early Predictive Studies; Psychological Evaluation;…

Focus is on the duties of an administrator in establishing a reading clinic. Learning difficulties and characteristics of severly disabled readers are listed. Current approaches such as the university clinic, public school clinics, and mobile clinics are shown, and working examples of each are cited. Considerations of use, financing, and…

The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of the relationship between test data of problem readers diagnosed in a reading center and the kinds of recommendations made by a reading specialist at the center in the areas of phonics and comprehension. A second dimension was to assess the agreement of the diagnoses in the areas of phonics and…

The Basic Skill Centers (BSC) program was developed to help students, primarily from the inner-city Target Area schools of Minneapolis, learn to read. The BSC approach was remedial, and each year more than 700 students, the majority in grades four through six, participated in the program. In 1969-70 the Talking Typewriter was one major aspect of…

Project Make All Reading Serviceable (MARS) offers special reading instruction to over 200 public and parochial school disadvantaged children in grades one through four. The primary objective is to raise the reading performance of students to a level consistent with their potential reading ability. The program also aims to foster academic…

Designed to provide ideas for developing and implementing a reading skills center for secondary schools, this document focuses on the needs of students who can be helped in the typical school setting and presents suggestions for helping students who have profound reading or language deficits. The contents outline in detail the many facets involved…

This topical paper discusses briefly the status of research in junior college reading/study skills programs. Specific gaps in research and the fundamental reasons for them are examined. Several areas in critical need of immediate and long-range study are identified. Tests, materials and their selection, programs and approaches, and student…

This paper proposes prognosis testing through teaching-learning situations as an effective alternative to modality testing. In modality testing the severely disabled learner's poor self-concept and short attention span adversely influence test results, and the child's preferred learning style is not determined. Prognosis testing is based on the…