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Greenlee, William E. – Academic Therapy, 1977
Described are principles of a natural system approach to educating learning disabled children. (CL)
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Educational Principles, Learning Disabilities, Models
Melamed, Lawrence E.; Melamed, Esther C. – Academic Therapy, 1982
A model of perceptual processing which posits four primary components of perceptual processing (sensory encoding, perceptual integration, memorial classification and retrieval, and cognitive abstraction) is explained to be helpful in identifying the nature of the learning disabled child's perceptual disorders and in designing a remediation…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Models, Perceptual Handicaps
Stires, Susan – Academic Therapy, 1983
The process/conference model of writing instruction is described for intermediate-level learning disabled students. Students proceed through several stages of writing (rehearsal, drafting, revising, editing, and rewriting) during which they have conferences with the teacher and eventually publish their writing. (CL)
Descriptors: Conferences, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Models
Safran, Joan; Safran, Stephen P. – Academic Therapy, 1985
A model depicting teacher-to-teacher communication can serve as a guide for special class teachers to systematize and streamline communication with regular teachers of mainstreamed learning disabled students. (CL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Interschool Communication, Learning Disabilities
Roth, Linda M.; Weller, Carol – Academic Therapy, 1985
Four education/counseling models for parents of learning disabled children are described and examples offered: (1) therapeutic models, featuring intensive individual or group therapy; (2) informative models, emphasizing basic information; (3) management models, stressing principles of behavior modification and management; and (4) helpful hints…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Muraski, John A. – Academic Therapy, 1982
Steps in developing career education programs for learning disabled adolescents are described, and components of a successful career education program are outlined. (SW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Community Resources, Learning Disabilities
Cherkes, Miriam; Pianta, Robert – Academic Therapy, 1980
A curriculum model in logic is proposed for learning disabled students based on reasoning and content needs. A diagnostic test with probes yields a profile of the child's reasoning ability and pinpoints areas of strengths and weaknesses. Three levels of instruction are provided: thematic concrete, specific concrete, and abstract. (CL)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum, Diagnostic Tests
Kelly, George R. – Academic Therapy, 1978
Presented and discussed is a model of sensory and intersensory components related to information processing and expressive activity in children with learning problems. (CL)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language, Information Processing
Mauser, August J.; Guerrieo, Carl A. – Academic Therapy, 1977
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Ysseldyke, James E.; Sabatino, David A. – Academic Therapy, 1973
Criticized are recent research efforts to validate the diagnostic prescriptive model of remediating learning disabilities, and proposed is a 6-step psychoeducational model designed to ascertain links between behavioral differences and instructional outcomes. (DB)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities
Schwartz, Shirley S.; MacArthur, Charles A. – Academic Therapy, 1990
A process approach to writing instruction with learning-disabled students is presented, in which students are guided through the processes of planning, drafting, and revising text. The model emphasizes the interaction of the teacher and learner through such activities as conferences, prompting, modeling, peer collaboration, and dialogues about…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Horner, Charlotte M. – Academic Therapy, 1987
A four-stage model, designed to shape learning disabled students' independent study skills and foster generalization of skills is presented: (1) ease students into a homework routine; (2) focus on time management; (3) teach problem-solving techniques; and (4) conclude in independent study with intermittent parent and teacher monitoring. (CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Homework, Independent Study, Learning Disabilities
