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Salend, Spencer J.; Salend, Suzanne M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
Regular and special educators (N=334) identified the social skill competencies necessary for successful performance in secondary mainstream settings. Competencies fell into three major areas: appropriate work habits, respect for others and their property, and ability to follow school rules. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Secondary Education
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Fine, Elaine – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
The survey of 195 regular and special secondary educators indicated learning disabled students receive little instruction on social issues despite their increased vulnerability to negative consequences resulting from poor thinking skills, social skills deficits, and a weak information base. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Secondary Education, Social Problems, Social Studies
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Harvey, Philip D.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984
Two-digit span tasks compared the distraction performance of 32 learning disabled (LD) high schoolers and non LD Ss. No differential distraction effect was found on the first set (matching nondistraction and distraction conditions). In set two, (distraction condition was designed to be more discriminating), a differential distraction effect was…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Learning Disabilities, Secondary Education, Short Term Memory
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Plata, Maximino; Bone, Jerri – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The study of perceived importance of 23 occupations by 65 adolescents with learning disabilities and 85 adolescents without learning disabilities revealed that occupations were ranked similarly by the two groups though students with learning disabilities held occupations classified as skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled in higher regard than…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Learning Disabilities, Occupations, Secondary Education
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McConaughy, Stephanie H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
Parents' reports on social competence and behavioral problems were obtained for 53 learning disabled boys 12-16. On average, the LD boys showed significant lower levels of social competence and more behavior problems compared to normative samples of boys in the same age range. Results were compared to previously published findings for younger LD…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities
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Atkinson, Bill – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
The article suggests that work with fractions deals with fundamental computation deficiencies and maintenance of interest of beginning secondary learning disabled students. Offered are 10 sequences and strategies for teaching fractions, remediation guidelines, as well as comments on drill sheets and daily scheduling. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Fractions, Learning Disabilities, Remedial Mathematics
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Wirths, Claudine G.; Leonard, Steven – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1982
A project of the University of Maryland has developed a driver education curriculum for the learning disabled. Several states are making efforts to improve driver education, including rewriting materials and providing oral tests for drivers' licenses. Options for future safety programs include parent-student seminars, multidiscipline teaching, and…
Descriptors: Driver Education, Learning Disabilities, Safety Education, Secondary Education
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Lieberman, Laurence M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1981
The author argues that there must come a time when educators decide to stop remediating the learning disability and help the adolescent live with the fact that s/he has a learning disability. Factors to consider include chronological age, grade, motivation, nature of school program, and severity of disability. (DB)
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Remedial Instruction, Secondary Education
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Price, Pamela A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984
The tests yielded similar scores. A qualitative analysis, comparing the tests in the areas of content, quality, time efficiency and relevance for instruction found the California Achievement Test to be superior and more efficient for accessing secondary learning disabled students' math achievement levels. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics, Secondary Education
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Waldron, Karen A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1985
After a year of participation in an intermediary setting, the "Learning Laboratory," analyses of pre- and post-academic measures indicated that sixth- to eighth-grade learning disabled students demonstrated significant reading gains when compared with control students; ninth- to twelfth-grade learning disabled students did not demonstrate academic…
Descriptors: Attendance, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement, Reading Improvement
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Deshier, Donald D.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984
A comprehensive intervention model for learning disabled (LD) students is described in terms of curriculum aspects (tutorial approach, basic skills remediation approach, compensatory approach, and strategies approach), communication to coordinate all the individuals interacting with LD students, transition, and evaluation. (CL)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
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Stoneburner, Robert L.; Brown, Barbara A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
The study investigated the concurrent validity of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) with 60 learning disabled adolescents. Findings generally supported the concurrent validity of the PIAT as a measure of academic achievement with secondary learning disabled students. (SBH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
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Parker, Richard I. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
This critique of Edwin Ellis' model for integrative strategy instruction for adolescents with learning disabilities comments on the feasibility of the model in the public school context, the completeness of the model in considering elements of classroom ecology, internal integrity or consistency, evaluation of student assessment, and evaluation of…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Secondary Education
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van den Honert, Dorothy – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1977
The author, searching for possible neurological anomalies behind a learning disability, focuses on the theory that faulty lateralization is implicated in reading difficulties. (Author)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Dyslexia, Etiology, Lateral Dominance
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Montague, Marjorie; Bos, Candace S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
Six adolescents with learning disabilities participated in an eight-step cognitive strategy designed to enable students to read, understand, carry out, and check verbal math problems encountered in the general math secondary curriculum. Visual analysis of the data indicated the strategy was an effective intervention for Ss with deficits in verbal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Mathematics
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