Investigates the effectiveness of the Char-L Intensive Phonics program within a six-week summer tutorial program for students with learning problems. Finds significant gains in reading for most students and improved word attack skills for all students completing academic tasks requiring reading. (KEH)

Discusses the Chinese attitude toward child development and socialization. Offers general comments concerning child rearing. Examines the Chinese emphasis upon performance in the arts. Notes that the Chinese classroom is oriented toward tradition and hierarchy. Compares the differing U.S. and Chinese approaches to basic skills and creativity. (KO)

This article describes the experience of grade one through two students with language disorders as they put together the parts of literacy knowledge necessary for each to discover a writing process that produced readable work. Included are perspectives of how to help students make sense of the literacy code. (Author/SW)

Maintains that few statistical representations are as tenuous as public opinion. Maintains that social studies students need to be taught to analyze statistical data carefully. Presents and discusses four guidelines for students reviewing statistical information. (CFR)

This article highlights the importance of parents as intervention agents for young children with special needs. It describes individualized training in behavioral strategies for parents, explains procedures for helping parents gain skills that foster their children's development, and suggests that parents will maintain the skills and generalize…

Reviews the objectives and strategies of four faculty members for nurturing critical reasoning skills as a specific instructional component in introductory sociology courses. Describes results of a questionnaire assessing students' perceptions of the program. Concludes that most students reported an increase in critical reasoning skills. Discusses…

The development of visual perception skills in children with partial vision as well as developmental disabilities is considered. A model of visual learning is offered which incorporates the role of visual experience, movement, and visual learning. Specific teaching suggestions for developing visual attention and visual search skills are offered.…

Presents experiments on effects of music instruction, teaching practica, feedback from the instructor, and videotaped self-observation on undergraduates' use of complete sequential patterns and components. Focuses on two levels: examination of effects of systematic instructional structures on acquisition of skills and refinement of constructs for…

Five principles of learning for young children with handicaps (functioning below a developmental age of one year) are presented, with descriptions of strategies that can be used to facilitate ascendance to higher levels of cognitive-social-communicative functioning. The principles include frequent adult-child interactions, meaningful context for…

Presents results of a study examining the relationship between a social studies classroom environment and the development of student creativity. Questions whether environments conducive to creativity can be encouraged in the Nigerian primary school system. Concludes that most teachers in the study did not foster creativity. Recommends means of…

Contends that primary teachers have an opportunity to teach basic geographic knowledge while they teach social and academic skills. Discusses how primary teachers can identify geographic concepts present in the developmentally appropriate activities currently being used in the classroom. (CFR)

This discussion of speech development in infants and toddlers with hearing impairments considers selection and ordering of speech targets; the place of audition in speech teaching; and teaching methods for specific speech elements. Guidelines include helping caregivers internalize strategies to help the child use residual hearing and utilizing an…

The efficacy of transition-based teaching trials with a constant time delay procedure and instructive feedback was investigated with preschool students with hearing impairments. Results indicated that constant time delay delivered during transition was effective in acquisition of preacademic skills; all students generalized some shape names; and…

This article discusses the importance of questions as a means for hearing-impaired students to acquire and clarify information and develop independent learning processes. The article also discusses the difficulties faced by hearing-impaired students in comprehending question forms (especially WH-question forms) and offers strategies for diagnosing…

Discusses one approach found to be successful for teachers with little formal English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) training and few ESL text materials to help their primary-aged ESL students to develop wide and varied uses of English. A discussion focuses on the use of wordless books in oral language and literacy development. (11 references) (GLR)