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…

This bibliography is limited to pertinent studies and prescriptions based on junior and community college populations and to literature addressed to the junior-college audience interested in the improvement of reading and study skills. Included are sections on program prescriptions; program descriptions; program evaluation; status and reaction…

This article summarizes the results of fieldwork designed to examine the implementation process in six diagnostic/prescriptive reading projects (part of the Rand Corporation's Change-Agent Study).

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)

Demonstrates that college freshmen instructed in a noncontent related reading laboratory made significant gains in both vocabulary and total reading achievement over a matched control group. (FL)

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)

Compares roles and functions of private, public school, and university reading clinics and discusses considerations to be made in organizing and evaluating the purposes and products of such clinics. (MD)

Minilessons are used in a reading clinic and in the classroom to determine if the reading disabled student is best able to learn new words through visual, auditory, or visual motor channels. Language experience stories are also generated along with a writing sample. (CL)

Distance education is generally seen as a very isolating experience for students, but one often forgets that it can be an equally isolating experience for teaching staff who oftentimes work in isolation from colleagues. This study examines the experiences of nine tutors at the Reading and Writing Centres of one of the 10 biggest universities in…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of creating a short form of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) for use in a clinical setting with disabled readers. The subjects were 100 clients ages six to sixteen of the Belser-Parton Reading Center at the University of Alabama whose files contained scores…