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Grey House Publishing, 2022
"The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide" has been a comprehensive and sought-after resource for professionals, families and individuals with learning disabilities since 1992. This twenty-third edition is the most comprehensive and current source of resources for the LD community available today, and a continual National Health…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Special Education
Grey House Publishing, 2020
"The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide" (formerly "The Complete Learning Disabilities Directory") has been a comprehensive and sought-after resource for professionals, families and individuals with learning disabilities since 1992. This twenty-second edition is the most comprehensive and current source of resources…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Student Needs, At Risk Students, Child Health
Grey House Publishing, 2018
"The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide" (formerly "The Complete Learning Disabilities Directory") has been a comprehensive and sought-after resource for professionals, families and individuals with learning disabilities since 1992. This twenty-first edition is the most comprehensive and current source of resources…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Identification, Academic Achievement, Professional Associations
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Literacy/Alphabetisation, 1992
"Literacy/Alphabetisation" is the Journal of the Movement for Canadian Literacy. Each issue appears in an English version and a separate French version. This document consists of the four issues comprising Volume 15, with the French issue immediately following the corresponding English issue. Each issue begins with Notes from the Editor…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
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Meyer, Valerie – Journal of Reading, 1985
Highlights concerns reading professionals might have regarding the use of volunteer tutors to attack the problem of adult illiteracy in a modern industrial nation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Learning Disabilities, Literacy Education
Simpson, Jerome D. – School Library Journal, 1991
Describes services available through the National Library Service (NLS), a division of the Library of Congress that provides books on cassette, disc, or in braille for students with learning disabilities and/or visual impairments. The history of the NLS is described, and cooperation with regional libraries is explained. (LRW)
Descriptors: Audiodisks, Audiotape Recordings, Braille, Elementary Secondary Education
Payne, Mario D., Ed.; Robins, Eve, Ed. – 1995
This guide is designed for adults who suspect or know they have a learning disability and for family and friends who wish to help. It is intended to provide a starting point for gaining information that can lead to obtaining services at the state or local level. It provides information on assessing the problem, a learning disabilities checklist,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Attention Deficit Disorders, Disability Identification
Kramer, Kay F., Ed.; Rosonke, Richard, Ed. – 1974
Eight papers on the diagnosis and treatment of handicapped children comprise proceedings of a conference for Directors of Special Education, past and present Regional Resource Center Directors, and the staff of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. E. Martin explains the rationale of Regional Resource Centers. A systems analysis of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Programs
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Riley, Richard W. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
The U.S. Secretary of Education describes the Department of Education's READ*WRITE*NOW! Initiative which aims to increase literacy rates by encouraging early and frequent reading as well as summer reading for children and youth, including those with learning disabilities. The need for a closer relationship between research and practice in reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Literacy
Payne, Mario D., Ed.; Robins, Eve, Ed. – 1994
This resource guide is designed to help adults who suspect they have a learning disability gather sufficient information to set realistic goals, achieve those goals, and lead productive lives. The first section, which discusses assessing learning disabilities, includes lists of agencies equipped to help diagnose learning disabilities in adults and…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies
Engberg, Eugenie; And Others – 1967
An overview of services to help the handicapped is given in light of the characteristics of social conditions and social development in Denmark, and the history of rehabilitative care is examined. Information is given on the following areas: legislative, organization and financing; the national health service; the general education of handicapped…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administration, Educational Programs, Employment Services
KIRK, SAMUEL A. – 1968
IN ACCORDANCE WITH TITLE SIX OF PUBLIC LAW 89-10, THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HANDICAPPED CHILDREN MUST MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION AND REVIEW THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE LAW ADMINISTERED BY HIM, WITH RESPECT TO HANDICAPPED CHILDREN, INCLUDING THEIR EFFECT ON IMPROVING THE EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Advisory Committees
DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, Pleasantville, NY. – 2000
The first meeting of the National Literacy Summit 2000 convened 150 leaders from adult education and literacy and other related fields for a 2-day intensive working meeting to begin building a national consensus on how to move adult and family literacy forward in the 21st century. Comments and suggestions offered by summit participants were…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Change Strategies