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Giordano, Gerard – Academic Therapy, 1982
As alternatives to hierarchical outlining, pictorial, topical, and critical outlining kinesthetically reinforce reading comprehension and can be useful in helping older students who are learning disabled or poor readers. Examples of each approach are given. (CL)
Descriptors: Kinesthetic Methods, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Grant, James O. – Academic Therapy, 1987
Consistency with flexibility can be provided in a remedial reading program for learning disabled elementary grade students with a seven-step program involving oral language remediation, alphabetic-phonetic instruction, auditory analysis, Glass analysis, (decoding, Glass, 1973) neurological impress, and strategies for comprehension. (DB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
Cartelli, Lora M. – Academic Therapy, 1980
The study involving 46 learning disabled children (mean age eight years) was designed to determine the effects of training in paradigmatic language structures on the reading process of Ss. Findings lent support for the semantic and syntactic relativity of words and for the meaning inherent in the nucleus of key verbal elements linking ideas to one…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Exceptional Child Research
Banas, Norma; Wills, I. H. – Academic Therapy, 1979
The article, the sixth in a series discussing specific tests of the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude (DTLA), deals with verbal opposites (word meanings in isolation) and verbal absurdities (word meanings in context). (DLS)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Learning Disabilities
Paul, Peter V. – Academic Therapy, 1989
The need for direct, systematic vocabulary instruction in improving language comprehension abilities of hearing-impaired and learning-disabled students is discussed. Vocabulary instruction should be knowledge-based and should be combined with extensive reading opportunities. Sample instructional techniques, such as word maps, semantic feature…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Language Skills, Learning Disabilities
Schewel, Rosel H.; Waddell, Julia G. – Academic Therapy, 1986
Four strategies effective in helping learning disabled students develop specific skills necessary for effective reading comprehension are described: (1) self questioning, (2) lookback strategies, (3) use of a code, and (4) inference modeling. The procedures are designed to shift students from a passive to an active role in reading. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Questioning Techniques
Sorrell, Adrian L. – Academic Therapy, 1990
Three reading comprehension strategies are presented to assist learning-disabled students: an advance organizer technique called "TELLS Fact or Fiction" used before reading a passage, a schema-based technique called "Story Mapping" used while reading, and a postreading method of categorizing questions called…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
