Per-pupil cost of preventive high school programs compared with cost of remedial manpower programs. (Editor)

The author addresses the planning of learning-disabled (LD) college students toward programing considerations. (SW)

Describes the individualized instructional approach of the Imperial Tutoring and Educational Services school in Chicago (Illinois), which offers tutoring by certified personnel for remedial and enrichment purposes. The program recently became the first tutorial school fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. (PGD)

Describes an autoremediation (self-remediation) system designed to allow students to diagnose their individual prerequisite deficiencies and then correct them. The system consists of a curriculum diagram, set of diagnostic tests, and a set of slide-tape self-instruction modules. Includes summary of evaluative efforts. (SK)

Presents an overview of the nature of adolescence, analyzes governmental responses to troubled adolescents, and suggests a model for working with troubled teenagers. Describes remedial, therapeutic, and social services provided for adolescents in the District of Columbia public schools. (Author/GC)

Presents six approaches for remedial reading programs which are effective in optimizing learner interest and participation: (1) picture gallery, (2) unfinished stories, (3) musical sounds and messages, (4) prop bags, (5) TV scripts, and (6) personal experience stories. (CMV)

This case study reviews a remediation program developed for a hyperkinetic school child. An important element of the program is the verbal portion of the therapist-student interaction. This consists of training in physical skills, encouragement, challenges, and conditioning the hand and verbal signals. (Author/AL)

To extend the applicability of intervention within the successive simultaneous processing model (which involves constant verbalization of actions), 68 fourth grade Canadian children were tested and divided into four groups: below average experimental, below average control, average control, average experimental. (Author/SBH)

The article describes the teaching and research activities of a primary classroom in Australia which serves 8- to 11-year-old children who have major deficits in basic academic skills. Sections address classroom organization, referral, entry, teaching programs, and procedures. The cases of two children are presented to demonstrate the effects of…

Lists and discusses television cassette tapes used at Western Kentucky University as instructional aids to poorly prepared students in introductory college chemistry courses. (CS)

The column examines five university based child development centers and/or child study clinics which work with handicapped children. (PHR)

Argues that reform of public education is possible through a combination of programs of remedial education, enrichment, and alternative education, and changes in the structure of education that come from vouchers and the 45-15 year-round school schedule. (IRT)

The authors describe issue strategies for the identification and remediation of basic cognitive deficits in disadvantaged young children. (Author/SBH)