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Latham, W.; Parry, O. – 1979
The Sheffield (Great Britain) Occupational Functional Reading Project was organized to study the functional reading required of 16-year-old school leavers who entered employment or training for a job, and to design instruments for assessing and diagnosing occupational functional reading abilities. The primary task of the project was to develop a…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Functional Reading
Sainz, Jo-Ann; Biggins, Maria Goretti – 1980
A systematic model for accelerating the process of developing the word decoding skills and building the vocabularies of bilingual adults was used among prison populations in Rockland County, Dutchess County, Suffolk County, and Essex County, New York, as well as in work-study programs in community centers in New York City. Literacy levels of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Bilingualism
Hallworth, H. J.; Brebner, Ann – 1980
Initiated nine years ago by the University of Calgary Faculty of Education Computer Applications Unit in cooperation with the nearby Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI), this project uses computer assisted instruction (CAI) to teach social and vocational skills to developmentally handicapped young adults, many of whom also have…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research
Duran, Elva – 1982
Vocational and language skill development of severely retarded and autistic adolescent Hispanics is a training focus at the University of Texas, El Paso. University students and parents of the handicapped are trained in the following areas: teaching grocery shopping and how to order from fast food restaurants, teaching use of public…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
