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Urdegar, Steven M. – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2014
My Virtual Reading Coach (MVRC) is an online program for students who have been identified as struggling readers. It is used as an intervention within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework, as well as for students with disabilities. The software addresses reading sub-skills (i.e., comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Response to Intervention, Disabilities
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Calderone, Cynthia; Bennett, Susan V.; Homan, Susan; Dedrick, Robert F.; Chatfield, Anne – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2009
The purpose of this quantitative study, funded by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) through Just Read, Florida!, was to investigate the use of Tune in[TM] to Reading, an innovative reading intervention, with struggling adolescent readers in the juvenile justice system. One hundred and three students who exhibited issues ranging from…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Residential Institutions, Secondary Education, Antisocial Behavior
Biller, Julian – 1970
Project GAIN was designed to meet the special needs of the academically retarded junior high school student. This federally funded project has been on-going in Broward County (Florida) since January 1966. The project was conceived of as a means to motivate and educate those students whose "dull normal" intellectual ability might…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Handicapped Children, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools