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Roddy, Michael – 1991
This book aims to meet the needs of students who are beginning to learn English and to help them reach such goals as gaining an education, finding a job, continuing on to higher education, or functioning better in everyday life in the United States. The book stresses the basic language skills of vocabulary development, grammar, reading, writing,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Critical Thinking, Daily Living Skills, English (Second Language)
Texas Univ., Austin. – 1977
A project is described that attempted to formulate a meaningful concept of adult performance levels, to devise instruments to measure performance at those levels, and to use those instruments to assess the functional competence of a representative sample of the population of the United States. Three levels of competence are defined in terms of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adults, Arithmetic, Basic Skills
Peer reviewedMiller, D. D. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1997
A mother of an adolescent daughter with blindness and learning disabilities focuses on how she helped her daughter improve reading and writing skills by finding a meaningful purpose for those skills in daily life. This article discusses early signs of learning problems, the learning environment, talking books, books in braille, technology,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Blindness, Braille
Download full textMcClintock, Shelby – 1994
This document contains the final report, trainer handbook for volunteer tutor trainers, and idea book for volunteer tutors from a project conducted to develop a supplemental tutor training program and life skills curriculum specifically for developmentally disabled (DD) adult learners. The final report describes how a group of DD adult learners…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities
Gerboc, Ronald E. – 1980
A report is presented on a two-year project developed by the Cleveland Public Schools to develop and pilot-test a "packaged" curriculum model designed to support both the basic and functional skill development of high school students in each of five major content areas--English, social studies, mathematics, science, and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills
Home Economics Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1985
In May 1977, the governing bodies of three professional organizations concerned with vocational home economics education (the American Home Economics Association, the American Vocational Association, and the Home Economics Education Association) formed a coalition. Consisting of two representatives of each organization, the coalition has as its…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making Skills
