RATE (Read and Then Evaluate) provides opportunities for learning disabled students to self-select appropriate reading materials, form and communicate opinions about their reading, and gain confidence in themselves as readers. Teachers' observations confirmed the effectiveness of the program, which was expanded to involve students sharing the…

A mood chart allows learning and/or behavior disabled students (8-12 years old) to evaluate and monitor their present mood. The chart can also be used to analyze the relationship between mood and inappropriate behavior, to communicate with parents, and to promote children's awareness and understanding of each other's feelings. (CL)

Approaches to working with learning disabled students who are also gifted, talented, or creative are illustrated in the example of a secondary student with special abilities in photography. Several of his photographs and accompanying narratives are included. (CL)

A special unit on savings accounts was incorporated into a program designed to teach learning disabled adolescents skills for becoming self-sufficient adults. Sessions covered concepts and terminology, a brief history of banking, common ways of writing dates on banking forms, the importance of spelling numbers correctly, and the use of savings…

The Parallel Alternate Curriculum (PAC) for modifying course content for learning disabled secondary school students is described. The rationale for PAC and four options for the practical application of the program are reviewed. The eight steps in the development of PAC, such as identification of learning outcomes and evaluation of students for…

A program designed to teach cognitive strategies through logical problem-solving and developed for elementary learning disabled students is presented. For each problem set, the instructional procedure involves a discovery activity, discussion, conclusion, follow-up activities, and integration. Five samples of the program's problem sets (e.g.,…

Fifteen learning disabled secondary students participated in resource room activities that stressed completing employment applications, looking for employment ads in newspapers, and role playing a job interview. Seventy percent of the class found gainful employment without assistance from outside sources. (CL)

A program to mainstream mildly handicapped (learning disabled and mentally handicapped) ninth graders in a high school English course has been developed in Bettendorf, Iowa. (DB)

The article explores the use of resource rooms with educable mentally handicapped students. (PHR)

An alternative program offers learning disabled secondary students with histories of academic failure a curriculum emphasizing career awareness and life skills. A work station setup provides experience in such areas as drafting, consumer awareness, mechanics, and transportation. Results include increased attendance, improved self esteem, and…

Three techniques--the daily report card, contract card, and grade point credit--are described for modifying the tardiness of learning disabled secondary students. (CL)

The article describes the Consolidated Method for Independent Learners (CMIL) which is based on schema theory and is designed to develop self efficacy, teach learning strategies, and foster generalization skills in learning-disabled and other handicapped children. (DB)

Both senior volunteers and learning disabled preschool children benefitted from the Grandparents Read to Me Project in Lakewood, Ohio. Seniors rarely missed a session and the children began to select books over toys during free time and ask their parents to buy books and read to them at home. (CB)

A career exploration and awareness curriculum was established for a self-contained class in a day school for severely behavior disordered and learning disabled adolescents. The classroom was set up according to a work-stations concept in areas which included business, electronics/electricity, and mechanics. (SW)

The Alternative Vocational School in Connecticut services 90 adolescents identified as emotionally disturbed or socially maladjusted students in a program emphasizing behavior management and discipline. Five components of the school are administration, job preparation and placement, clinical services, vocational-technical training, and learning…