This practicum developed a self-recording procedure as a strategy for increasing on-task behavior, academic achievement, and self-esteem of 12 students (grades 6 to 8) with emotional disabilities in a self-contained class over a 12-week period. Students were taught to self-record at gradually decreasing frequencies as well to use their judgment in…

Six learning-disabled second-grade resource room students with auditory deficits had poor listening skills that inhibited their attention to directions and their accurate completion of assignments. Using a curriculum which incorporated visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities, the practicum project encouraged and motivated the children and…