Described is an interdisciplinary mainstreaming program for individualizing instruction for secondary learning disabled students, utilizing resource facilities in grades 7-9 in eight separate centers throughout Franklin County, Missouri. Aspects of this program--such as the developmental and by-pass strategies of instruction employed to help…

Summarized are presentations given at a 1-year Prescriptive Teaching Workshop, a Title III educational program designed to maintain the learning disabled elementary school child in the regular classroom. Outlines, diagrams, and bibliographies are provided for presentation topics such as the special service circuit, educational assessment, behavior…

Presented is the teacher handbook developed as part of Project TEAM (Teacher Encouragement to Activate Mainstreaming) to improve attitudes and skills of regular secondary teachers working with educable mentally handicapped or educationally handicapped students. Sections of the handbook include an introduction, a brief consideration of classroom…

This document is a learning module developed for graduate level students in the field of teaching learning disabled children. The module consists of a pre-assessment, three element/activity groups, and a post-assessment. The terminal goal is the ability, given appropriate assessment data, to identify a child's modality strengths and weaknesses,…

Presented is the Illinois Regional Resource Center's Manual for Diagnostic Teachers which is designed to provide a model for assessment, individualized educational planning, optimal placement, and short and long range follow-up of children (3-21 years old) with unexplained learning problems. Section 1 provides an introduction to the…

Intended for teachers and speech clinicians, the handbook and accompanying worksheets describe research-based psycholinguistic procedures for needs assessment and individualized instruction of language-delayed children, including aphasics. Four main chapters explain how to collect a language sample (a systematic transcription of the student's…

Presented is the 11th of 12 instructional kits, on program planning, for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the kit are directions for preassessment tasks for…

The purpose of the kits is to facilitate the teaching of basic science skills. The kits can be used in the regular classroom for which they were designed or as instruments for teaching of students in learning disability classes. The kits are designed in the areas of plants, animals, metric measurement, chemistry, geology, and space study. Each kit…

Presented are training materials for use in a teachers' workshop--providing methods for teaching essential skills to students with learning difficulties and planning individual instructional sequences as students' skill needs change. Included are the following ten modules: (1) defining the problem and identifying what will meet the student's…

Presented for regular classroom teachers, resource room teachers, and teacher consultants is a handbook of strategies and techniques for mainstreaming educable mentally impaired, emotionally impaired, and learning disabled students into regular classrooms. Twelve chapters cover the following topics: resource room models, personnel, staff…

This program guide is designed for elementary students that need special services to learn most efficiently. The program, conducted at three sites within the district and later validated at two other sites in Oregon, measures current behavior and develops an instructional sequence to meet prescribed objectives. The mainstreaming approach of the…

Described is Project ADAPT (A Developmental Approach to Psychomotor Transfer), a validated program used with 808 primary grade children, some with learning difficulties, over a 3-year period to enhance academic readiness and self esteem through psychomotor training. An introductory project summary explains program objectives, the needs assessment…