The Learning Resource Support Program provides academic support services to learning disabled adolescents. (SB)

The article explores the use of resource rooms with educable mentally handicapped students. (PHR)

A teacher of young children with visual impairments in a resource room program recounts how yo-yos became a bridge to development of social skills and friendships both within the group and with other students in the school. (DB)

The case study describes the integration of 13 learning disabled high school students into the mainstream of a public high school. Physical descriptions center on the school's neighborhood and the facility. Background information includes information on teaching staff and the student population. The resource class is then detailed in terms of its…

The Developmental Teacher Model, a resource teacher model used in Ontario, Canada, by the Dufferin-Peel Roman Catholic Separate School Board, employs a special education team responsible for educational assessment, consultation with other teachers, direct withdrawal services to some students, and support to integrated students from contained…

Throughout the 1978-1979 school year, four teachers in District 20 in New York City were utilized for the purpose of developing math skills in selected students in four elementary schools. The target students were removed from class for the additional instruction that their needs required. Each teacher met with five groups of students per school…

The 3R program at Highland Park Junior High School (St. Paul, Minnesota) serves seventh to ninth grade students with maladaptive behavior from 1 to 3 hours daily with the purpose of facilitating eventual return to all or nearly all regular classes. Student time in the classroom is totally individualized. The treatment plan involves a behavior…

A kitchen timer, three-minute egg timer, and individual clocks made from paper plates were used to teach time management strategies to learning disabled elementary school students in a resource room. Their attention span increased, work habits improved, and there was less frustration for both teacher and students. (VW)

This case study of one resource program describes structures and techniques used in the regular classroom, playground, lunchroom, and resource room to help in mainstreaming handicapped students. In four years this program saw a 42 percent reduction in students classified as handicapped, although school enrollment grew by almost 38 percent.…

This article presents a description of current practices in educating students with mild intellectual disabilities in regular schools in Jordan. The data were obtained using several methods, including interviews with special education staff at the Ministry of Education, summaries of documents and published research related to resource rooms and…

A successful Newfoundland service model for mildly disabled students which features a team approach incorporated in a resource room program is described in terms of referral, assessment, placement, programing, and evaluation procedures. (CL)

A reading resource room program for 65 deaf high school students was implemented at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind in an attempt to improve the reading levels of its resident hearing impaired students. (SEW)

Computer assisted instruction (CAI) in the form of tutorial and drill programs supplements language, vocabulary reading, and math instruction in special classes and resource rooms for hearing impaired secondary students. Development by staff of software programs is an integral part of the system. (CL)

During the 1989-90 budgetary process, the Bangor (Maine) School Department established "blended funding" of special and regular education accounts, so that nonhandicapped students might also benefit from resource-room services. An evaluation study showed that teachers felt less pressured to label borderline students as special-education…

The paper describes a three level resource room designed to provide a comprehensive program to meet the widely varying needs of handicapped students at the secondary level. An introduction provides the historical background of services to the handicapped. A description of the program includes the organization; the resource room services, such as…