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Polloway, Edward A.; Polloway, Carolyn H. – Academic Therapy, 1981
Fifty most essential survival vocabulary words and 50 most essential survival vocabulary phrases produced from a survey of 80 special educators are listed. The words and phrases were compiled to aid development of a protection vocabulary, particularly for adolescents with severe reading difficulties. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Functional Reading, Reading Difficulties, Vocabulary
Minskoff, Esther H. – Academic Therapy, 1982
Learning disabled students need to be exposed to instruction in functional reading and mathematics, social information, and verbal and nonverbal social skills so that they can function as competent individuals in the every-day world. (CL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
