This paper describes the Child Study Center (CSC) of the Pinellas County, Florida, Pupil Services Demonstration Project, an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project. The purpose of the CSC is to provide the diagnostic, prescriptive, and consultative intervention necessary to assist referred students with serious learning problems in…

The basic goal of this program was to provide individually-tailored instruction for more than 70 4-year-old children identified as having potential learning handicaps. Children selected for the program attended small half-day sessions four times a week. Instruction in the areas of language arts, mathematics, science, health, motor skills, and…

Presented is the continuation proposal for Title III funding of a program which serves approximately 2,000 kindergarten and first grade children by early identification of learning needs and diagnostic-prescriptive intervention. Program components are given to include comprehensive screening to identify individual needs in the areas of motor…

The staff of the Individualized Language Arts Diagnosis, Prescription, and Evaluation Project, a funded ESEA Title III program, has developed methods based on a diagnostic-teaching framework designed to analyze students' writing skills for grades 1-12. The program structure also provides teachers with methodology for developing and reinforcing…

The Right-to-Read Program outlined in this document is an ungraded project for kindergarten through third grade, which utilizes individual diagnostic tests to place pupils at their instructional levels of reading and to prescribe plans of individualized instruction based on specific curriculum objectives. The document sketches the development of…

A comprehensive program for the early identification and remediation of kindergarten and first grade students' learning needs has been developed and implemented in Dade County, Florida. The diagnostic aspect of the program includes the screening of all kindergarten and first grade students. This is referred to as the K-1 Diagnostic Survey Program.…

This directory contains comprehensive descriptions of diagnostic-prescriptive mathematical programs, for which some success has been demonstrated in the classroom, as shown by statistical evidence of significant improvement of student learning. The table of contents is designed to provide easy identification of programs related to specific grade…

Emphasis in the Jennings, Missouri, Learning Laboratory Program is placed on improving reading and language arts skills by first diagnosing and assessing the disability and then developing an individually prescribed program in which the student can utilize his strengths and remedy his weaknesses. With the goal of improving the English-reading…

Described is the role of the teacher aide in the Papillion (Nebraska) Title III elementary level "engineered classroom" program which stresses accomplishment of academic goals by emotionally disturbed students. Noted is the aides' goal of carrying out students' prescriptions provided by the teacher and psychologist. Described are the…

Presented is the final report of a 3-year Title III program which provided approximately 50 emotionally disturbed children (6- to 14-years-old) with special classes (10 pupils per class) utilizing behavior modification techniques and precision teaching. Explained are the project purpose of providing an instructional setting for children totally…

This directory reviews 13 diagnostic-prescriptive mathematics progres. Ten of the programs are complete mathematics programs; the remaining three are supplementary programs. These programs are designed for use in one or a combination of grade levels from grades K-9. Each program is outlined according to: nature of program, rationale of program,…

One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," the Continuous Progress Reading Program is structured by specific performance objectives and corresponding diagnostic test items within each of 17 sequential levels. Begun in 1971, the program serves first through sixth grade students in a number of schools. The students…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," was begun in 1971 and serves 1,826 children of varying socioeconomic levels in K-4. Project ALOHA is a mainland demonstration of the Hawaii English Program, a total instructional system that provides goals, materials, a management system, and inservice training. The program is…

This document is a teachers' resource manual, grades Kindergarten through Twelve, for the promotion of students' facility in written composition in the context of a language-experience approach and through the use of diagnostic-prescriptive techniques derived from modern linguistic theory. The "Individualized Language Arts: Diagnosis,…