Uses the language experience approach with a state driver's manual to teach disabled adolescent readers and educable mentally retarded students. (RS)

Classroom treatment for the disabled reader in which the child is permitted to make reading errors and then to develop control over them is described. Homeopathic treatment emphasizes meeting the child's reading needs as they develop rather than determining causal factors and providing drastic remediation. A goal-oriented process of instruction is…

The case study of a third-grade learning disabled boy demonstrates effectiveness of meaning-centered tutoring involving observation, reading to S, and hearing the S language experiences. (MC)

Discusses the language experience approach to remedial reading as a method to move the high school student with poor reading skills away from instructional techniques with which the student has experienced difficulty and into a no-fail reading situation. (HTH)

Describes the use of a structured language experience approach and an imitative, or taped book, approach to teaching reading to children who were reading with difficulty. (MKM)

Advocates a psycholinguistic view of the reading process and a language experience approach to reading instruction. Offers suggestions to improve students' reading performance. (FL)

Suggests that the language experience approach combined with the cloze procedure is a useful technique in working with reading disabled students. (RB)

Describes the techniques, including the use of a peer tutor and the language experience approach, that helped a 16-year-old nonreader learn to read. (MKM)

This study investigated the effectiveness of the neurological impress method (NIM), the language experience approach (LEA), and classroom teaching as remedial reading treatments for disabled readers. Subjects referred to the Purdue Reading Clinic were screened to determine whether they met criteria for the study and were randomly assigned to the…

Describes several approaches used in trying to teach an adult to learn to read over a period of several years, including the approach that was successful (language experience) because the student was highly motivated to write. (JM)

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 150 children in kindergarten through grade 9 who are reading below grade level and show measurable potential for improvement. The activities in which children engage depend on the diagnosis of their skill deficiencies. At each grade level, a reading specialist leads small…

Reports on the successful use of a modified Fernald technique with second graders using colored chalk on the blackboard. (MKM)

Argues that an understanding of the psycholinguistics of the reading process can provide a foundation for instructional decision making in secondary and college reading classes. Discusses factors affecting reading comprehension. Provides exercises to help students use prior knowledge about the nature of language to overcome reading difficulties.…