Two related examples demonstrate how to conduct high-quality interventions and consultation case studies with integrity. Case studies utilized home note and consultation-based interventions to improve task completion and accuracy in mathematics for primary grade students demonstrating performance difficulties. Both interventions increased math…

Learning styles represent a type of aptitude-treatment interaction suggesting that a person's distinctive characteristics (aptitudes) can be matched to a specific treatment (instructional method) yielding a more effective outcome than could otherwise have been achieved. Special education research does not support categorizing youngsters or using…

This report presents information on the second year of a 3-year project to develop hypertext computer study guides and to study their use by secondary students, including remedial students and those with learning disabilities. The first section provides an introduction to hypertext, what it is, how it is structured, and how it compares with…

A successful work career has extra importance for the slow learner who has behind him a long history of failures. This article discusses some of the problems encountered by school counselors in working with EMR students now found in many "normal" secondary school classrooms. (Author/HMV)

This workbook was designed as an easy-to-read, slower-paced text for students who have learning, reading, and language problems. As one of five workbooks to aid low achievers in problem solving, it focuses on strategies for solving one step and multistep word problems in mathematics. Students use skills learned in the four previous workbooks in…

Chapter 1 of "Education of Exceptional Children, a review of the literature for the 3-year period since the issuance of "REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, Volume 36, No 1, February 1966.

Effects of maternal-neonatal extended contact or separation were examined in 76 children (8 to 10 years old), five of whom were receiving special education services, and 28 who had been retained in their grade. Of the five Ss requiring special services, three were classified as slow learners and two as speech impaired, two conditions linked by…

The major objective of this evaluation was to determine whether "The Slow Learner in the Secondary Schools" program had any impact on the educational environment of the slower learners in Burnaby (B.C.). The objective of the program was to produce measurable impact regarding changes in the attitudes, instructional strategies, curriculum, and use…

Assessment of the adaptive behavior of public school children being considered for placement in the special education programs for the mentally handicapped in the Corpus Christi (Texas) Independent School District (CCISD) is discussed. Formal and informal assessment procedures are used, with a team of two associate school psychologists having the…

MORE THAN 10,000 CHILDREN ATTEND SCHOOLS WHERE THERE ARE NO SCHOOL LIBRARIES. SIXTY-SIX PERCENT OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DO NOT HAVE A SCHOOL LIBRARY. EVEN SCHOOLS WITH CENTRALIZED LIBRARIES HAVE FEWER THAN FIVE BOOKS PER PUPIL, AND MANY ARE WITHOUT PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED LIBRARIANS. BECAUSE OF THESE STATISTICS A SPECIAL ISSUE ON ELEMENTARY…

Primary intended users of this first volume of a two-volume handbook are professional counselors and placement officers involved in expanding the range of jobs available to persons having only basic cognitive skills (e.g., mentally retarded, slow learners, learning disabled). Agencies which would find it useful included employment service offices,…

Project GAIN was designed to meet the special needs of the academically retarded junior high school student. This federally funded project has been on-going in Broward County (Florida) since January 1966. The project was conceived of as a means to motivate and educate those students whose "dull normal" intellectual ability might…

The services and effects of a 3-year project designed for a selected group of students in the low range of mental ability (and/or with subaverage intellectual functioning) enrolled in the Eastern High School (Washington, D.C.) are reported. The objects of the demonstration project were to provide for unmet academic, social, prevocational and…

A description of braille and a review of research on this topic are discussed. Summaries are presented of nine research studies which are also presented in full; conclusions and duplications of the research are considered. The nine reports cover the following topics: effects of word length, familiarity, and orthography, influence of numbers and…

One of a series prepared by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, this teaching guide offers suggestions for using the newspaper to teach remedial reading to junior high school students. Program A discusses a reading program built on motivation and contemporary materials to reach students who are completely turned off by standard reading books. Program B…