The Role of Reading in Rehabilitation.

Gentile, Lance M.; McMillan, Merna

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ERIC Number: EJ217651

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979

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The Role of Reading in Rehabilitation.

Gentile, Lance M.; McMillan, Merna

Reading Psychology, v1 n1 p55-65 Fall 1979

In this interview, a tutor in a correctional reading program, himself a former drug addict and jail prisoner, describes his childhood failures in reading, the public shool's failure to help him and other Spanish-speaking students, his eventual reading success in the jail reading program, and factors that account for the program's success. (GT)

Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Interviews, Non English Speaking, Prisoners, Reading Attitudes, Reading Failure, Reading Improvement, Reading Programs, Spanish Speaking

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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