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Download full textHerr, Audrey – 1975
This report is an evaluation of a New York City School District educational project funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program was designed to serve 1,640 children attending special day schools, psychiatric hospitals, and day and residential treatment centers for the socially maladjusted and emotionally…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Persons, Handicapped Children, Problem Children
Smith, Carl B. – Amer Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Environment, Reading Difficulty, Reading Improvement
Gittelman, Rachel; Feingold, Ingrid – 1980
The effect of reading remediation that emphasized phonetic decoding was investigated in 61 children with pure reading disorders, controlling for the influence of nonspecific treatment effects. The children were randomly assigned to receive instruction in reading or in other subjects for four months; and they were reevaluated immediately after, two…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Phonetics, Program Effectiveness
Strang, Ruth – 1968
This monograph includes an extensive review and evaluation of the research literature and offers teachers and clinicians background for understanding reading diagnosis, the correlates and causes of reading disabilities, diagnostic techniques, and remediation. The following topics are discussed: (1) the nature and levels of diagnosis, (2) the…
Descriptors: Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties, Reading Difficulty, Reading Improvement
Wark, David M. – 1968
A self-diagnostic system called the Automated Individualized Diagnosis System (AID) tested at the Reading and Study Skills Center, University of Minnesota, was designed to replace the human counselor. It consists of an answer sheet, a Self-Analysis Profile Blank, and an audio tape which helps the student derive his reading profile and select the…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Counseling Services, Diagnostic Tests, Individualized Instruction
Dorinson, Zena; Fiedler, Margaret – 1968
During an inservice training program on the construction and use of informal reading inventories, 14 teachers of freshman English learned how to administer informal reading inventories, how to use information obtained to construct reading profiles, and how to use reading profiles to guide reading instruction. After six 2-hour sessions, they…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Diagnosis
Sparks, J.E. – 1968
The state's role in reading instruction improvement in California is illustrated by the Miller-Unruh Reading Act of 1965 which aims to prevent and correct reading disabilities at the elementary school level and to provide funds and services for special reading instruction. It requires that the Stanford Reading Test be given in May each year to…
Descriptors: Corrective Reading, Educational Legislation, Primary Education, Reading Diagnosis
Upper Dublin School District, Ft. Washington, PA. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 150 children in kindergarten through grade 9 who are reading below grade level and show measurable potential for improvement. The activities in which children engage depend on the diagnosis of their skill deficiencies. At each grade level, a reading specialist leads small…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Greenville County School District, Greenville, SC. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1650 disadvantaged students in grades three through seven at ten elementary schools and three middle schools. Reading centers in the elementary and middle schools are designed to give intensive individualized instruction in basic reading skills. Students at least one year…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Middle Schools
Philadelphia School District, PA. – 1974
This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 1,500-2,000 kindergarten and first-grade children in three districts. The program is designed to train school personnel to identify perceptual deficits in areas specifically undergirding the reading process in kindergarten or first-grade children and to implement needed…
Descriptors: Perceptual Development, Primary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Improvement
Seibert, Katherin E. – 1971
The hypothesis that first and second graders can improve reading skills by learning to type on electric typewriters was tested in this study. Other purposes of the research were to develop linguistic comprehension in Standard English, to produce introductory reading materials which promote phonic understanding as they fix typing-key strokes, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Technology, Motivation, Positive Reinforcement
Durr, William K., Ed. – 1970
The purpose of this collection of selected papers is to provide the reading teacher and the classroom teacher with usable information concerning remedial reading and its diagnosis and correction. The first section, concerned with the why of reading problems, reviews the various factors associated with reading difficulties. The second section…
Descriptors: Informal Reading Inventories, Reading, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulty
PDF pending restorationAmerican Correctional Association, College Park, MD. – 1977
Project READ (Reading Efficiency and Delinquency) during its first year involved 4,330 juveniles in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Designed to improve the reading ability of incarcerated juvenile offenders, the program was based on two important facts. A survey of correctional institutions during 1974 assessed the reading abilities of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Correctional Institutions, Delinquency, Functional Literacy
McDonnell, Thomas Emmett – 1975
Effects of assignment to a regular classroom, to a resource room, or to a remedial reading group were examined in a study of gains in reading achievement of 49 elementary school boys. Measures used included the Slosson Intelligence Test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Primary Mental Abilities Vocabulary subtest, and the…
Descriptors: Classification, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Males
Peer reviewedCall, Patricia E. – Reading World, 1978
Surveyed administrators at 25 institutions of higher learning in West Virginia concerning administrators' perception of reasons for establishing reading improvement programs, the importance of the programs, and the administrators' interest in and plans for the programs
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, Developmental Reading, Higher Education
