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A Community Volunteer Intervention Program To Increase Reading Skills and Abilities of Learning Disabled Resource Students.
Lanier, Cynthia C. – 1991
This paper describes a program in which community members (retired citizens, parents, and others) provided tutorial services over a 12-week period to five learning disabled primary grade students in a resource room program. Comparison of pretest and posttest results showed a greater than 20 percent increase in reading scores. Weekly spelling test…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education, Problem Solving
Language Intervention Strategies for Improving Communication Skills of Students with Severe Emotional Disabilities in a Public Elementary School.
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Scherbert, Thomas G. – 1996
This practicum was designed to improve the problem solving skills and social language skills of 19 elementary grade students with emotional disabilities through coordination of school professionals and direct instruction. Problem solving skills taught by special education teachers were reinforced during small group speech and language resource…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Interpersonal Communication
Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Acceptance in Emotionally Handicapped Students through the Bibliotherapeutic Process.
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Randolph, Elizabeth – 1993
This practicum involved the development, implementation, and evaluation of a program which used a bibliotherapeutic approach to develop specific behaviors with three second graders and seven fifth graders, all in a resource program for students with emotional handicaps. A needs assessment survey of mainstream teachers identified needs in the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Bibliotherapy, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
To Encourage Development of the Critical Thinking Skills for Third Grade Elementary Students.
Harris, Noel V. – 1985
A resource teacher working at an elementary school located on a military reservation implemented an 8-week practicum intervention designed to improve the critical thinking skills of 16 third graders. A task force composed of resource and classroom teachers, a guidance counselor, a reading curriculum supervisor, a school psychologist, a principal,…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Empowering Parents of Junior High School Resource Students with Specific Learning Disabilities during the Individual Education Plan Process.
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Buckner, Alice E. – 1992
This practicum, which sought to improve parents' involvement in the development of educational goals for their children with disabilities, had three objectives: improved attendance by parents at Individual Education Plan (IEP) conferences, increased parent participation in the decision-making process during IEP development, and enhanced parent…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Information Networks, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High School Students
Improving the Transition Process for Middle School Learning Disabled Students Reentering the Regular Classroom through Student Accountability and Teacher Inservice Training.
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deNomme, Dennis A. – 1994
This practicum was designed to ensure that junior high students with learning disabilities experience a successful transition back into the regular classroom from the resource room. The focus was on increasing communication between the regular classroom teacher and the resource room teacher, evaluating transition candidates using a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades, Interpersonal Communication