The Communication Skills Center Project (CSC) in Detroit, Michigan, a Title I project, provided remedial reading services to 2,845 educationally disadvantaged children (80 to 85 percent Negro) in grades 2 through 12 during 1966-67. The facilities included six communication skills centers, three serving elementary and junior high school students…

A survey was made of the reading programs which exist in commercial reading firms, college and university reading centers, and corporations in the United States and Canada. The resulting data, recorded here, are presented so that one may become familiar with the current status of reading improvement programs in both countries. Fifteen tables…

The subskills content of 23 college reading manuals published in the past decade was analyzed. The skills which were investigated are grouped under these headings: rate, vocabulary, comprehension, organizational skills, critical reading, and study-textbook reading skills. In addition, content features such as tests, exercises, test validations,…

The purpose of this investigation was to study the growth in self-concept of boys who were enrolled in a remedial reading clinic during a six-week summer session. Forty-two boys between the ages of 8 years 0 months and 12 years 12 months who were enrolled in the 1972 summer session of the University of Maryland Reading Clinic served as subjects.…

The purpose of this book is to provide an understanding of both the educational and medical aspects of reading and to show how they are interrelated in reading disabilities. The various aspects of reading disabilities are presented in the following chapters: Introduction to the Reading Problem; Early Predictive Studies; Psychological Evaluation;…

This specialized teacher training program, submitted by Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois as an entry in the 1973 Distinguished Achievement Award Program, provided perspective teachers with increased opportunities and experiences in specific areas of competency. These areas were early childhood education and remedial reading. The Remedial Reading…

Described is the EDL "Learning 100" adult-oriented communication skills program used in the Wyandanch community of New York's Suffolk County. Using one full-time reading specialist and two full-time aides, the program divided 100 disadvantaged, minority group junior high school students into 16 sections, each meeting for different…

For children practicing basic reading skills, reading games constructed to transfer these skills to the children's own reading can be exciting, fun to play, and highly motivating. These games, whether incorporated into daily lesson plans or into learning centers, can be adapted from popular commercial games which have specific characteristics.…

This handbook includes assorted checklists, calendars, guides, and forms to help in managing a high school reading laboratory. The program is based on a diagnostic-prescriptive, skill-centered approach to the teaching of reading. Procedures related to the philosophy of the program, organization and storage of materials, record keeping, and testing…

Ongoing program evaluation is examined as an evolutionary process in which the form of evaluation changes in response to the questions to be addressed. As programs evolve over time, so should the evaluation designs. The concept is illustrated with two examples from a large school district in Florida. (Author/CM)