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Download full textDunn, Lloyd M.; And Others – 1968
The purpose of the three-year Cooperative Language Development Project was to examine the efficacy of an oral language development program and an experimental reading program in improving the academic achievement, language development, intellectual functioning, and creative thinking of disadvantaged children in primary grades. The experimental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Creativity, Disadvantaged Youth
Woodhead, Martin, Ed. – 1976
This book describes an experimental compensatory preschool program carried out in England between 1968 and 1973. The program combined a traditional nursery program with a daily 20-minute period focusing on specific language and perceptual activities. Experimental and control subjects, 237 in all, were selected from four state supported nursery…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Missouri State Dept. of Education, Jefferson City. – 1967
Six speakers consider programs for the retarded. Geraldine K. Fergen describes the challenge of special education; James O. Smith discusses planning appropriate language programs for children with retarded intellectual development; and Bobby Palk outlines the sequential development of skills in the trainable mentally retarded. Also treated are…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Curriculum Development, Exceptional Child Education, Language Acquisition
