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Durham, Jennifer – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Founded in 1967, The Lab School of Washington (LSW) has been educating students with learning disabilities using an arts-based curriculum for over 50 years. Sally Smith originally started the school out of frustration with the inability of traditional educational environments to reach her intelligent, but learning disabled, young son and others…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Learning Disabilities, Curriculum, Teaching Methods
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Tarver, Sara G. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article presents the goals, philosophy, and theory of the Direct Instruction model. The theory stresses the learning of generalizations with multiple examples through a highly structured curriculum. Connections between theory and practice are illustrated with a variety of examples of thinking operations from Direct Instruction programs.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Disabilities, Educational Philosophy