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Direct linkShaw, Steven R. – Principal Leadership, 2010
Slow learners, such as students with borderline intellectual functioning, represent one of the most challenging student populations for administrators and teachers. Standard systems and supports are often ineffective--even counterproductive--because they fail to meet students' specific learning needs and instead create a cycle of failure. This…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Slow Learners, Behavior Problems, Outcomes of Education
Dobbs, Mary Carolyn – Pointer, 1976
Class hobbies such as coin collecting, stamp collecting and pen pal projects can accelerate the learning of teenaged slow learners. (GW)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Hobbies, Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities
Borglum, Karen – 1980
Designed for use with secondary level learning disabled students and slow learners, this guide contains materials for familiarizing students with the Iowa Basic Driver's Manual. The following materials are included: pre- and posttests, chapter tests, vocabulary drills, worksheets to accompany each chapter of the Iowa driver's manual, and answer…
Descriptors: Driver Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLehman, Helane G. – Clearing House, 1992
Presents a method of teaching science that employs two kinds of graphic organizers of information, the matrix and the branch-out strategies. Argues that these methods are particularly relevant for slower learners. Provides graphic examples. (HB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Graphic Organizers, Learning Disabilities, Science Curriculum
Lawes, Geoffrey – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1974
Descriptors: Banking, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Foreign Countries
Tagg, Mary – 1976
A survey of slow learner education in state secondary schools was conducted in Auckland and North Auckland, New Zealand. Thirty-five schools containing 30,787 pupils replied to the questionnaire which covered the following areas: assessment prior to placement, educational objectives, identification methods, special classes, teaching groups,…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Programs, Foreign Countries
Sinatra, Richard; Venezia, Jennie F. – Exceptional Child, 1986
"Academically disabled" adolescents (N=70) participated in a visual literacy approach to reading and writing development. The subgroup of learning disabled students significantly improved in reading comprehension and narrative and descriptive writing, while "borderline" students (intelligence quotient 70-89) improved in reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, Hyperactivity, Instructional Effectiveness
Finkelstein, Harry – 1980
This mathematics textbook, developed for use with slow learners and learning disabled students in secondary school, contains 17 chapters. Among the topics covered are: number words; place value; rounding whole numbers; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers; reducing fractions; mixed numbers; lowest common…
Descriptors: Addition, Division, Fractions, Learning Disabilities
