Students from four academic areas, education, social work, psychology, and communicative disorders, are trained in clinical assessment procedures at the Clinical Training Center at San Diego State University. (MKM)

Describes a program which uses learning centers and a task-completion approach to teach students with reading difficulties. (KS)

Presents the following steps for the clinician to follow in determining consequential factors of reading disability: (1) identification, (2) assumption and rejection or acceptance, (3) discovery and explanation, and (4) prediction and verification. (CM)

Reviews materials from the ERIC database describing the variety of functions a high school reading lab can perform and suggesting ways to evaluate student improvement in the reading lab situation. (MKM)

Reports that inner city remedial reading students self-selected traditional fairy tales over more contemporary stories available to them. Cites the work of Bruno Bettelheim and Karen Zelan, who suggest that these children select such materials to find intrinsic meaning. Argues that reading aloud to children is a valuable if not necessary means of…

The Learning Disability Center in Binghamton, New York, was established under the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Specialized instruction is offered to all children reading 2 or more years below grade level in grades 3 through 6 and 1 year below grade level in grades 1 and 2. At the center, efforts are made to maintain communication…

This booklet describes a junior high school reading laboratory located in Urbana (Illinois) Junior High School, Fisher Campus. The student population in the school numbers approximately 950. Students have individual schedules, with six instructional classes of fifty minutes per day. Students enrolled in the lab attend each day for a regular…

An evaluation of the reading laboratory clinic at the Sulzberger Junior High School, Philadelphia, is reported. On the basis of a group informal reading inventory (IRI) 120 from a total of 467 grade-7 students were assigned to the clinic. Pupils who scored below third-grade second-semester book level were considered eligible for the clinic…

This paper reports on the progress of the Reading Diagnostic Center at LLincoln University during the year 1972-73. The contents include: "Introduction," which reports on the total (public and nonpublic) students exposed to the center; "Objectives, Activities and Evaluation Plans," which presents the objectives, evaluation, and…

This document reports on Parkway Missouri School District's Right to Read Reading Clinic aimed at improving the reading abilities of elementary school students. The contents consist of objectives, staffing procedures, testing, diagnosis, diagnostic tests, screening tests, case report forms, remediation phases, case study, case report, counselor…

In order to carry out the objective that students identified as retarded in reading will increase their reading achievement ot a predicted level based on accumulated data and diagnostic results, activities centered around three areas of concentration. (1) An exemplary program for the diagnosis of reading disabilities was established. Project area…

Suggests classroom activities appropriate for disabled readers, including thematic approaches, whole language activities, writing in response to reading, incentives and competition, and relaxation techniques. (JAD)

Describes the Topeka Public Schools Reading Clinic, Centers, and Services, which provide inservice work for teachers, remediation for children, and concentrated clinical diagnosis. Bibliography. (RW)