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Jordan, Rebecca L. P.; Garwood, Justin; Trathen, Woodrow – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2019
In an era of teacher quality reforms, one overlooked area for assessing readiness for teaching is education majors' self-efficacy for teaching reading. This gap is unfortunate, as teaching reading is a common responsibility among general and special education teachers. In the current push for RTI--one in which more general education teachers are…
Descriptors: College Students, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Regular and Special Education Relationship
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Hua, Youjia; Therrien, William J.; Hendrickson, Jo M.; Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Ries, Pamela S.; Shaw, Julia W. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The combined repeated reading and question generation procedure is a reading intervention designed to target both fluency and comprehension for students with disabilities. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of the intervention for school age children with learning disabilities. This study extended the research by utilizing the…
Descriptors: Young Adults, College Students, Reading Instruction, Questioning Techniques
Ukrainetz, Teresa A., Ed. – PRO-ED, Inc., 2015
"School-Age Language Intervention: Evidence-based Practices" explains how to teach the language and literacy skills, strategies, and underlying processes needed for educational success. This book brings together an array of experts to provide the latest practical and evidence-based guidance to school speech-language pathologists.…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Language Acquisition, Intervention
Friedman, Brenda G.; And Others – 1985
Intended for language learning disabled college students and their tutors, the booklet examines the use of words as aids in understanding an author's meaning. Suggestions are offered to help students adopt a more comfortable and effective reading style. The first section examines ways to decipher authors' context cues for information. Eight…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
Wooten, Sharon M.; Wooten, Charles L. – 1987
The Learning Development and Evaluation Center (LDEC) at Florida A&M University offers students with specific learning disabilities the opportunity to succeed in postsecondary education. LDEC provides psychoeducational assessments upon which an individualized educational plan is based. Guidelines encompass initial screening procedures, ongoing…
Descriptors: College Students, Demonstration Programs, Higher Education, Individualized Education Programs
Biggs, Shirley A., Ed.; Bullock, Terry, Ed. – 1990
The ninth yearbook of innovative learning strategies presents the following articles, grouped in three major sections. The first section, Program Models, contains: (1) "Cooperative Learning in a Study Skills Course" (Corrine Plotkin); (2) "Peer Tutor Preparation: A Guide to Training" (Kathy Carpenter); (3) "A Community…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning, Creative Teaching
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of group counseling on junior high remedial readers' self-concepts; (2) dysnomia and its relationship to subtypes of reading disabilities; (3) the…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Annotated Bibliographies, College Students, Compensatory Education