The curriculum in this after school program for low income Negro and Puerto Rican elementary school (grades 2-6) consisted primarily of remedial reading and arithmetic, library training, homework assistance, and a "Special Potential Development Service" providing music, art, and health education. The volunteer students were accepted…

The 1967 California Legislature enacted regulations which enable local school districts to provide appropriate physical education programs for severely physically handicapped children who cannot be served in regular programs. After a summary of regulations on eligibility, class size, and reimbursement procedures, attention is given to the…

This curriculum guide identifies three reading courses taught at the junior high school level (intensive reading, improving reading, and developmental reading) and five reading courses taught at the senior high school level (intensive reading, improving reading, practical reading, developmental reading, and power reading), designed to meet the…

To help students learn important reading skills and habits and become independent learners, remedial reading laboratories should begin at the level of the student's competence, provide ample practice in reading and language skills, and provide immediate feedback and evaluation. The University of Idaho Learning Resource Center supplements the…

Presented are 12 papers from a conference on the issues of secondary learning disability. Following an introduction are the texts of discussions from the conference's four sections covering an overview of the central issues, definition and identification, learner characteristics, educational priorities and objectives, remedial strategies, model…

This first year report describes the educational philosophy and organization of a Saturday school program aimed at ameliorating emotional or learning difficulties in 4-year-old children. The evaluation of the project during its first year focused on 42 different product and process objectives and was concerned with the project's impact on…

This report deals with those students who have managed to negotiate the educational system and have reached college without acquiring sufficient reading skills. A brief review of the literature on college level reading programs serves as an introduction to an overview of the remedial reading programs now underway in Texas junior colleges. A case…

The junior-high or high-school student who reads below the fourth-grade level was cited as a national problem. Those students must be identified by reading specialists and English teachers, and programs must be prepared to correct these reading disabilities through motivation and skill building. Because of this need, the author described the…

Begun as a remedial reading center with ESEA Title III funds, the Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) has developed into a reading resource center with remedial, teacher training, research, and information service programs. Emphasis is on preparing teachers to work with disabled readers and on research in remedial reading. Although it…

Prepared for a White House Conference on Children (December 1970), this report describes the Corrective Reading Program of Wichita, supported in target areas by funds from ESEA Title I and considered an effective large-scale remedial program which operates in the public schools. Special classes are held in each school building in which the program…

This final report gives the findings of a government research project, the broad objective of which was to determine the existence of heightened covert oral behavior in the performance of tasks in which the response class had not yet been empirically studied and to ascertain the function of the covert oral response. Areas covered by this report…

The objectives of this program, funded under Title I of the 1965 ESEA, were as follows: (1) to raise the achievement levels in reading for children in the special schools who were retarded in reading two or more years. Each of the 28 special schools selected a target group of children for whom intensive remediation was provided; (2) to develop…

The Syracuse City School District alternative high school program outline offers an individualized program of instruction that is occupationally rather than academically oriented. The curriculum is divided into three phases. The first phase covers an intensive development of basic skills. General reading skills, vocabulary, English grammar, and…

During the 1971-1972 school year, the regular educational programs in District 24 were supplemented with special educational services funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This evaluation report treats the several programs funded under the following headings: Pre-Kindergarten Program, Strengthened Early Childhood…

The Corrective Mathematics Services Program for Disadvantaged Pupils in Nonpublic Regular Day Schools, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was proposed to serve approximately 14,032 poverty area children who attended 165 non-public regular day schools. Those children were eligible for these services whose score on…