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The Eligibility Process: Identifying Students with Learning Disabilities in California's Community Colleges.
Mellard, Daryl F. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1990
The article describes the eligibility model developed by the community college system of California for students with learning disabilities. Major activities of the research and development process leading to the eligibility model are detailed including components, procedures, and criteria. The process combines clinical and databased evidence with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Eligibility, Handicap Identification, Learning Disabilities
The Admissions Process: An Approach to Selecting Learning Disabled Students at the Most Selective Colleges.
Shaywitz, Sally E.; Shaw, Robert – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1988
This article offers guidelines for identifying gifted/learning-disabled high school students who would survive and thrive in the most competitive college environments. It strongly encourages the development of more informed admissions processes, not only at the undergraduate level but at the graduate and professional school levels as well.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Gifted, Higher Education
Facilitating Mainstreaming through a School-Wide Study Skills Program and Semantic Feature Analysis: An Interactive Teaching Strategy for Facilitating Learning from Text.
Smith, Gayle; Bos, Candace S. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1987
Two articles look at effective practices with the learning disabled. The first, "Facilitating Mainstreaming through a School-Wide Study Skills Program" (Gayle Smith), stresses one skill each month. "Semantic Feature Analysis: An Interactive Teaching Strategy for Facilitating Learning from Text" (Candace Bos and Patricia Anders) offers a method for…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Foreign Language Policies and Procedures for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities.
Ganschow, Leonore; And Others – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1989
A survey of 166 4-year colleges and universities examined pre-college and within-college foreign language requirements, foreign language petitioning processes, foreign language waiver/course substitutions, teaching methods, and instructional alternatives. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for students with learning…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Degree Requirements, Higher Education
Secondary-Postsecondary Collaboration: A Model of Shared Responsibility.
Dalke, Connie; Franzene, Joanne – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1988
The article describes a one-day on-campus program designed for college-bound students with learning disabilities, their parents, teachers, and counselors. The program provides a forum in which the issues, concerns, hopes, fears, and questions regarding college as a postsecondary option are discussed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Day, Education Work Relationship, High Schools
Are Learning Disabled Students "Test-Wise"?: A Review of Recent Research.
Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1988
Applied research suggests that learning-disabled students can benefit from training in test-taking skills to improve their performance on both standardized tests and content area tests. Recommendations for classroom applications enumerate which skills are most important for objective, short answer, and essay question tests and suggest appropriate…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests, Learning Disabilities, Objective Tests
A Case for Writing Intervention: Strategies for Writing Informational Text.
Englert, Carol Sue; And Others – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1988
Writing samples from 21 fourth and fifth grade learning-disabled students illustrate three typical problems. The Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Writing program incorporates strategies for performing the writing process and for enhancing student awareness of the roles of audience and text structure in planning, organizing, writing, editing, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Micros for LD College Writers: Rewriting Documentation for Word-Processing Programs.
Collins, Terence G.; Price, Lynda – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1986
Word processing software can accommodate the writing deficiencies of high-functioning, learning-disabled college students, but documentation frequently needs revision for increased user-friendliness, better instructional layout, less complex syntax, and repetition of key concepts. A sample revision of one program is presented, focusing on switch…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
A Classroom-Based Model for Assessing Students with Learning Disabilities.
Bursuck, William D.; Lessen, Elliott – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1987
The article describes C-BAID (Curriculum Based Assessment and Instructional Design), a school-wide curriculum-based assessment system which identifies the learning problems and appropriate programming for elementary grade students with learning disabilities. The system consists of three parts: academic skill probes, work habits observation, and an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Diagnostic Teaching
A Review of the Federal Government's Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities Report to the U.S. Congress.
Silver, Larry B. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1988
The Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities, which submitted its report to Congress in August 1987, recommended a revision in the legislative definition of learning disabilities. It also recommended funding interdisciplinary research centers "to devise broad and longitudinal multidisciplinary approaches" and a central…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Definitions, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
New Directions for Service Delivery to Learning Disabled Youth and Young Adults.
Rosenthal, Irwin – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1986
The increased accessibility of learning-disabled persons to higher education has created the need to address program development, student psychosocial growth, parent adjustment, and transitional needs. A new, federally funded (Office of Special Education Rehabilitation Services) Master's Degree program has been developed to teach counselors and…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Students, Delivery Systems, Educational Needs
Redesigning Delivery Systems for Learning Disabled Students.
Kirk, Samuel A. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1986
Programs for learning-disabled students should: minimize the use of self-contained classes; organize one-to-one remediation for the severely learning disabled; organize teacher assistance teams; identify and remediate learning disabilities at the preschool level; and educate regular teachers to deal with minor handicaps in the classroom. (CB)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disability Identification, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education