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Vaugh, William J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Project ABLE is a successful program providing educational services to learning-disabled adults over the age of 16 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The program features individualized, structured, remedial lessons in language arts and mathematics; large-group motivational sessions; and attempts to make learning as functional as possible. (PGD)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Learning Disabilities, Nontraditional Education
Greenberg, I. M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
Descriptors: Achievement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Heterogeneous Grouping, Learning Disabilities
Distad, Lois – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
The experience of a remedial classroom reading specialist shows that many children with learning disabilities are victims of child abuse. These children need more guidance and guardianship in the classroom as well as educators and administrators committed to addressing children's fundamental rights to protection. (MD)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Childrens Rights, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Nash, Robert T.; And Others – 1989
This paper discusses the major components of Project Success, a nationally recognized learning disabilities (LD) support program on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Its goals include: each student will become academically and socially independent; each student will graduate from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh or some other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, College Programs, College Students
Spear, Barbara E. – 1979
A program for adults with learning disabilities is being conducted at the Educational Testing and Learning Clinic (ETLC) at Orange Coast College (OCC). The program has five components. In order to enroll, the student's basic skill level must be below the eighth grade in reading, spelling, and writing, and below the sixth grade in mathematics. The…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Testing
Download full textDusewicz, Russell A. – 1971
This final report of the Early Childhood Demonstration Program for the Disadvantaged, begun in October 1969 at the Learning Research Center of West Chester State College, West Chester, Pennsylvania, contains the evaluative results of 80 children enrolled since 1969. The aim of this compensatory program was to develop an infant education curriculum…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Compensatory Education
Sanders, Joseph, Ed.; Stokes, Dia B., Ed. – 1979
This paper reports on the programs and research projects developed and/or undertaken by the Center to promote the development of high risk children. Included are descriptions of the Center's Longitudinal Program and its nine project components which concentrate on the early development of basic abilities among children from low income families.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Development, Compensatory Education, Day Care
