Despite educational reforms to increase standards, many American children fail to read at levels that will enable them to compete in higher education and in the global economy. Standardized testing has reported a gradual decline in the reading scores of local second grade elementary students. The purpose of this project study was to create a…

A reading resource room program for 65 deaf high school students was implemented at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind in an attempt to improve the reading levels of its resident hearing impaired students. (SEW)

Examines the long-term effects of instruction on the reading achievement of children diagnosed as having learning disability and were taught in resource rooms. Studies the consequences of such instruction on the cognitive level of children identified as having reading disability. Finds that resource room placement and instruction have deleterious…

Interviews with 21 parents of children receiving special education resource room services in reading revealed that most parents had strong positive attitudes toward the services, derived primarily from subjective perceptions (such as teachers' caring) rather than academic performance data. Most parents were reluctant to have their children…

The Fairview Reading Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA), which was used in a cross categorical elementary school resource program at Fairview Elementary School in Darien, Illinois, is described. The test measures oral reading accuracy, rate and comprehension on passages taken directly from the two basal reading series used in the school. As the…

The reading instruction, grouping practices, and outcomes for 59 students with learning disabilities (LD) in resource room settings were examined by this follow-up study. Whole class instruction was the dominant grouping format and only half of the special education teachers provided differentiated materials and instruction. Overall, no…

Finds that students with learning disabilities who received reading instruction in special-education resource rooms expressed reading attitudes that equaled or exceeded those expressed by low and average non-disabled students in another nationwide study, and that their attitudes remained more stable across grades 1 through 5 than those expressed…

The report evaluates the Non-Public Schools Learning Resource Centers Program, an approach to providing remedial reading and mathematics instruction to Chapter 1 eligible students who were underachieving in math and/or reading and whose difficulties had not been remedied by normal school services. The program featured pullout services in…

The researchers who conducted a study of the views of regular elementary teachers toward provision of special services through either "pull-in" or "pull-out" programs consider the researcher's role as change agent. The authors stress the timing of their research (with new legislation mandating consultant teacher services) and…

This study of 67 intermediate grade students with reading difficulties found that students in a peer-mediated sustained reading condition performed better than peer-mediated repeated reading students and control students receiving typical reading instruction, on fluency but not on comprehension. No effect for the level of text difficulty was…

This study compared the views of 11 general education elementary teachers whose remedial reading students participated in integrated pull-in programs with views of 11 colleagues with similar students served by pull-out programs. Intergroup differences included more positive attitudes toward pull-in programs by teachers experienced with them than…

This study evaluated the transfer of decoding skills from a code-emphasis program that used a controlled text to a literature-based basal reading series consistent with the whole language approach. Participants were 11 elementary students with learning disabilities who received reading instruction in a resource program. Results found students…

Seven poor readers (ages 11-12) were trained in reading comprehension strategies using reciprocal teaching procedures in resource rooms and were instructed to employ the strategies in their homeroom classes. The combination of reciprocal teaching and transenvironmental programing was effective in facilitating subjects' unprompted use of relevant…

This manual was developed as part of a project investigating the effectiveness of class-wide peer mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of repeated reading, in which pairs of students…

Possible reasons for the nationwide increase in the number of children identified as learning disabled (LD) include abrogation of general education's responsibility toward difficult to educate children, increasing differences in preservice general and special education training, the increase in parent/student rights litigation, and parental…