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Buktencia, Norman A. – 1972
A program explored the incidence of dyslexia among disadvantaged adults hampered by inadequate reading skills but enrolled in basic education courses through the Concentrated Employment Program (CEP). The purpose was to develop a screening and evaluation program, develop and apply remedial methods of instruction, and train the CEP staff to take…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Disadvantaged, Dyslexia
Schiavone, James – Literacy Discussion, 1973
Author recommends the diagnostic-prescriptive'' approach to teaching adult reading as well as individualized instructional programs. (GB)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students, Individualized Programs
Knight, David; Alcorn, John D. – 1969
The performances on selected measures of reading achievement and intelligence of 24 educationally disadvantaged adults and two groups of elementary children were investigated and compared. The first group of children was drawn from a low socioeconomic level, and the second, from a high socioeconomic level. There was a stronger correlation between…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedRaisner, Barbara – Reading World, 1978
Reports on a study of the reading strategies of 14 black adult college students who were nonproficient readers; compares results with those from earlier studies of children's reading strategies. Offers suggestions for remedial reading courses at the college level. (TJ)
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Black Students, Children
Weintraub, Samuel; and others – Reading Res Quart, 1970
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading, Behavioral Science Research, Classification
Download full textCausey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1954
This yearbook contains the papers presented at the third annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities as well as additional articles of interest written by members. Topics considered: reading in the college curriculum, evaluation of the tachistoscope in reading improvement programs, recent research relative to…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Programs, College Students, Higher Education
Christ, Frank L., Ed. – 1968
The report drawn from the first annual conference that was designed to provide professional dialogue for those interested in the improvement of college reading programs, this volume contains seven papers that deal with the following topics: the role of literary criticism and rhetoric in developing new models of reading comprehension, a pilot…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Developmental Reading, Higher Education, Phonics
Schiavone, James – 1978
The document presents a course designed to help underprepared community college students improve their reading skills and a discussion of the adult education learning principles upon which it is based. An introductory section reviews the literature pertaining to principles of adult education, and the differences between adult learning needs and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives
Causey, Oscar S., Ed. – 1956
This yearbook contains addresses and discussion group reports from the fifth annual meeting of the Southwest Reading Conference for Colleges and Universities. Part 1 includes addresses which consider: definitions of reading, psychological explanations of reading, the sociology of reading, recent research in college reading, reading and semantics,…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Programs, College Students, Conference Reports
Scales, Alice M. – 1977
The purpose of this document is to suggest an assessment/prescriptive/instructional (API) process for working with older learners experiencing reading difficulties. Following a justification for the designing of materials specifically for older learners, the document explains how to collect data about learner's interests, attitudes, and reading…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Reading Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Higher Education
Carter, Homer L. J.; McGinnis, Dorothy J. – 1969
Many students in today's expanding college enrollments have deficiencies in such areas as reading. Many schools have already made reading and study skills programs part of their curriculum to help these underachieving students. But, one problem has been to find reading teachers who understand and can meet the emotional as well as the instructional…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Curriculum, College Language Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1967
Focusing on expanding fields in junior college and adult reading programs, the 35 articles in this volume were drawn from the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1966. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: an interdisciplinary approach to the identification and remediation of severe reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Educational Technology
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1965
Focusing on the philosophical and sociological bases of reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fourteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1964. Among the topics covered in the 27 papers are the following: the philosophy and sociology of reading; reading reform; adult literacy; paperback books; factors in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Cloze Procedure, College Students
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1970
This is the first of two volumes containing papers focusing on reading processes and pedagogy that were drawn from the nineteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1969. Among the topics discussed in the 42 papers are the following: underlining, individualized reading instruction, reading improvement programs in industry…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Critical Reading
