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Download full textLDA of Minnesota, 2008
Ms. K. has attended ABE (Adult Basic Education) classes for almost one year and has had significant difficulty in making progress in reading. She has passed some of the GED tests, but has struggled with others due to having insufficient time to complete them. She currently works as a teacher's aide in a daycare center. Her goal is to pass the GED…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Remedial Reading, Evaluation Methods, Adult Basic Education
Reading Area Community Coll., PA. – 1990
A project was conducted at Reading Area Community College (Pennsylvania) to develop the basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills of students with learning disabilities, to develop the self-esteem of these students, to motivate them, and to develop a model program that could be used by other adult education providers. The project featured a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction
Smith, Margaret; Dalheim, Zoe – 1996
This notebook is the 3rd volume of a three volume set containing strategies to provide an educational environment and assessment and counseling services for the learning disabled (LD) adolescent and adult. Part I focuses on a beneficial educational environment. Chapter 1, on the academic environment, addresses what is necessary for a supportive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Counseling Services
Dean, Karen; And Others – 1995
This document contains three guides for facilitating the three workshops. The guides resulted from a project conducted in Pinellas County, Florida, Public Schools to produce a comprehensive, 18-hour training program and follow-up services for administrators, teachers, and tutors working with adults with learning disabilities (LD) in literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Course Content, Inservice Teacher Education
Newman, Michael K. – 1992
The purpose of this study was to develop a survey instrument that could be used to determine the degree to which faculty members perceive themselves to have knowledge and skills that they can use to help their adult students learn how to learn. Informal surveys of students at the Anderson Adult Education Center in South Carolina, which has a high…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Andragogy, Cognitive Processes
van Kraayenoord, C. E., Ed. – 1992
This report documents the current situation in Australia with respect to literacy learning of individuals with intellectual disabilities. Information for the study was obtained in the following ways: literature review; a survey of services offered in Australia (respondents were 90 principals/directors/presidents; 201 service providers; 37…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education
Vaillancourt, Beverly – 1979
This final report contains a ten-page narrative and extensive appendixes of materials regarding, and products developed by, a project to develop assessment and educational techniques serving the adult basic education (ABE) student with learning disabilities (LD). The narrative discusses activities (and results) concerning these five project…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Basal Reading
Grafius, Thomas M. – 1980
Michael's Informal Test of Student Ability (MITOSA) is a diagnostic evaluative tool for adult students designed to test nine skills abilities in adult students functioning below a tenth grade level. The nine test sections are approximate reading level, understanding of basic math concepts and symbols, general thinking/reasoning ability, eye-hand…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Ashcroft, Cheryl A. – 1993
This independent learning packet, which is intended for adult literacy tutors, reviews the literature regarding adults with learning disabilities. The packet begins with a learning disabilities pretest. Presented next is the literature review, which includes information on the following aspects of learning disabilities: definition and historical…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Adult Basic Education
Manhattan Adult Learning and Resource Center, KS. – 1988
This document is designed to help adult educators understand and meet the needs of adults with learning disabilities (ALDs). A research-substantiated rationale for remedial instruction for ALDs is presented in the introduction. Selected terms are defined, and common characteristics of ALDs are examined. Basic assumptions regarding adult learning…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
