Describes a program at Northern Illinois University which teaches communication skills in order to aid minority students in surviving the college curriculum. (DD)

Games, "Bank Accounts," and clubs highlight a special junior high school reading class which aims at putting itself out of business. (Editor)

Twenty-nine 10-year-old educable mentally retarded Ss in a resource room program were matched on age, intelligence and reading level (preprimer) with 41 special class controls to determine the efficacy of the resource room as an alternative to special classes. (MC)

Responses of students to an excerpt from an article, L'ecole ouverte'' (The Open School) by Jean Onimus. (DD)

Colleges must devise procedures, says the author, to help under-prepared students, who have been newly admitted, to overcome their deficiencies in academic skills. (Author/RK)

Described are four types of problem families who are said to not be suitable for the home program approach to helping children with learning disabilities. (DB)

Case study demonstrates the successful interaction between the medical- therapeutic and the educational-specialist in the evaluation, remediation, and treatment of learning disabilities. (Authors)

Describes a tutorial method of individualized, programmed reading instruction that doesn't require and sophisticated materials for its implementation. (AN)

Evaluation of a program at Miami Dade Junior College showed no benefits to students as a result of participation in that program. (CJ)

Shows that a score obtained on a retest using the reading reinforced technique gives a useful measure of reading capacity and apparently provides a successful method of screening students for reading programs. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. ( RW)