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Download full textAlford, Roy W.; Hines, Brainard – 1972
This is a report on a one-year demonstration of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Home-Oriented Preschool Education Program conducted in Kanawha County, West Virginia, by the Kanawha County Board of Education. It involves 150 children, ages 3, 4, and 5 from a rural isolated section who watched 170 daily television lessons broadcast over a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Fortenberry, Warren D. – 1968
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of visual perceptual training on word recognition and reading achievement of disadvantaged first grade pupils. The experimental groups received the Frostig Program for the Development of Visual Perception in addition to the regular readiness program for a period of 12 weeks. The control…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Groups
Stapleton, LeRoy Earl – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine the comparative effects of the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP) and the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) treatment interventions on oral reading, psycholinguistic growth, total achievement, and achievement in the areas of reading, language, and arithmetic. The…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Diagnostic Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations
Cohen, S. Alan – Academic Therapy Quarterly
The findings of several tests are used to describe some learning disabilities and patterns common in lower-class Puerto Rican and Negro children. In particular, perceptual dysfunction is pointed to as a major causal factor in the reading problems of the disadvantaged. In one urban slum school, 40 percent of first graders showed serious dysfunction…
Descriptors: Black Students, Corrective Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Emotional Problems
