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Direct linkHannon, Rebekah – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
It is no secret that many adult learners who enter GED® preparatory programs across the country experienced hardship and difficulty in K-12 schools. Often, many of these same students had to battle with learning disabilities such as ADD/ADHD, making school and learning an even more challenging task. Learning and concentration difficulties are…
Descriptors: Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Test Preparation, Adult Students
Hock, Michael F. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
Adults with learning disabilities (LD) attending adult basic education, GED programs, or community colleges are among the lowest performers on measures of literacy. For example, on multiple measures of reading comprehension, adults with LD had a mean reading score at the third grade level, whereas adults without LD read at the fifth grade level.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Adult Basic Education
Download full textMatson, Susan – 1988
This paper suggests techniques that teachers who prepare adult students for the General Educational Development (GED) tests can use with students who have learning disabilities. The first part of the paper presents a brief overview of symptoms exhibited by students who are learning disabled. Symptoms are classified under general behaviors,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Educational Diagnosis
Peer reviewedWestberry, Susan J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This literature review considers instructional and testing strategies for General Education Development (GED) adult students with learning disabilities. The GED test is described, and specific instructional strategies from the literature are identified for the areas of writing skills, science, social studies, literature and art, and mathematics.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs
Free Library of Philadelphia, PA. Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. – 1988
This handbook for literacy tutors and adult education instructors is a compilation of information about various handicapping conditions and suggestions for working with students with each of the handicaps. Seven handicapping conditions are considered: hearing acuity problems, visual impairments, deaf blindness, speech and language impairments,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classroom Techniques, Deaf Blind, Disabilities
GED Items, 1988
The first of six issues of the GED Items Newsletter publishied in 1988 contains articles on General Educational Development (GED) mathematics instruction, suggestions for teaching writing, and public relations and marketing. Issue 2 has articles on GED science instruction, GED for Marines, holistic scoring, and a review of the new GED tests.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Disabilities
Cooper, Richard – 1999
A staff development program was conducted to provide adult educators in Pennsylvania with information about adults with learning differences and information about using alternative instructional tools and techniques to instruct such adults. The following four training sessions were developed: (1) Teaching GED (General Educational Development) Math…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – Focus on Basics, 2001
This set of four newsletters contains articles to help adult basic education and literacy teachers connect research and practice. The following are among the articles included: "The Effects of Continuing Goal-Setting on Persistence in a Math Classroom" (Pamela Meader); "Do the Cognitive Skills of Dropouts Matter in the Labor…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
