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Bloom, Barbara; Coulter, Karen – Special Education in Canada, 1982
Learning disabled adolescents can be helped to make sense of large amounts of material by a systematic study approach that builds on memory strategy. Such a strategy includes building on meaningful associations and recollections and using specific memory aids (such as kinesthetic, visual, and auditory rehearsal). (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Memory
Peer reviewedTowle, Maxine – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1982
The article analyzes the stages of study in terms of skills needed at each phase. Specific ways to modify instructional activities and to develop study procedures in learning disabled students are presented. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Study Skills, Teaching Methods
Griffey, Quentin L., Jr. – Academic Therapy, 1986
Addition of a word processing component to a study skills program for eight learning disabled freshman students in a community college resulted in higher term paper grades and positive student and faculty evaluations. (CL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Study Skills
Download full textSedita, Joan – 1995
This paper presents a rationale for teaching study skills to students with learning disabilities, a flexible study skills model, and suggestions for implementing the model. Students with learning disabilities are seen as capable of learning study skills but require specific instruction and practice and need teachers who understand learning styles,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Self Management
Torgesen, Joseph K.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1987
Three studies evaluated the effectiveness of using verbatim text recordings to increase learning disabled high school students' reading comprehension and learning ability. Use of the recordings did produce performance gains, especially when used in conjunction with completion of a related worksheet. (DB)
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Harries, Rhonda J. – Academic Therapy, 1986
Seven strategies are described to encourage resource room students' development of independent organizational skills. Suggestions include use of specific duty sheets, time management instruction, and teaching of proofreading and checking techniques. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Resource Room Programs, Study Skills
Giordano, Gerard – Academic Therapy, 1982
As alternatives to hierarchical outlining, pictorial, topical, and critical outlining kinesthetically reinforce reading comprehension and can be useful in helping older students who are learning disabled or poor readers. Examples of each approach are given. (CL)
Descriptors: Kinesthetic Methods, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Reetz, Linda J.; Rasmussen, Terry L. – Academic Therapy, 1988
Two mnemonic acronyms can help learning-disabled children remember to complete the necessary steps for regrouping in addition and subtraction. (DB)
Descriptors: Addition, Basic Skills, Computation, Elementary Education
Anderman, Robert C.; Williams, Jane M. – 1986
The materials were developed to help prepare eleventh and twelfth graders to be successful in an academic environment when their school history indicated little chance for success. The booklet includes instructional materials to teach test-taking and note-taking, two skills many failing students lack. A syllabus is included for each unit along…
Descriptors: Course Content, High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Notetaking
Decker, Thomas W.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1985
Recommendations are offered for combining study skills and test-taking training, relaxation, and modification in thinking processes to help learning disabled college students improve their academic effectiveness. A stress management program is outlined in terms of assessment and interventions. (CL)
Descriptors: College Students, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Relaxation Training
Wood, Judy W.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1988
The article gives suggestions for teaching mainstreamed secondary level learning-disabled and other students notetaking skills. Adaptations to help the student when notes are taken from a lecture and when notes are taken from the chalkboard are offered and include giving the student a lecture outline on which to add notes. (DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Notetaking
Peer reviewedHildreth, Bertina L.; And Others – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1995
This article describes use of a comprehensive calendar designed to help college students with learning disabilities organize course assignments, assess assignments in terms of time allocation, and plan for the completion of assignments. The calendar design, which was implemented with students at the University of North Texas, involves task…
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Organization
D'Antoni, Alice; And Others – 1984
The paper presents four learning strategy techniques--the SQ3R method of study, the Multipass Strategy, the Advanced Study Guide Technique, and Cognitive Mapping--for use with secondary level learning disabled students. The SQ3R method involves the five steps of survey, question, read, recite, and review. An adaption of the SQ3R method, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Ellis, Edwin S.; Lenz, B. Keith – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1987
Intended to assist teachers in evaluation of specific learning strategies for learning disabled students, the article summarizes 14 metacognitive strategies (sets of steps used by the student to talk his or her way through a problem) based on principles of rehearsal, transformation, organization, mnemonics, monitoring, motivation, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedBulgren, Janis; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1988
Evaluation of "Concept Diagrams" and a related "Concept Teaching Routine" used in nine secondary school classrooms which included 32 learning-disabled (LD) students, found that teachers successfully selected target concepts and implemented the teaching routine, whereas students (both LD and non-LD) demonstrated gains in concept acquisition,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
