The report presents evaluation data on a program to provide remedial reading instruction to eligible handicapped students in public and nonpublic schools. Students received individualized, diagnostic prescriptive instruction from a program remediation team consisting of a reading teacher and paraprofessional assistant, as well as from their…

The report presents the history and accomplishments of a mainstreaming program involving an exchange of professional skills among a special education teacher and four regular education teachers of high school English classes in Milford, Massachusetts. Based on results of a teacher survey, a team-teaching program was devised which stressed a…

The study was designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of diagnostic teaching with 70 children (6 to 14 years old) with learning and behavioral disorders and to investigate the administrative plan which is most efficient and effective for implementing diagnostic teaching. Ss were divided into three experimental groups--Experimental Group I with…

Project Esperanza supplemented the basic special education program for handicapped students with limited English proficiency (LEP) by providing (1) staff training and consultation, (2) materials development, identification, and evaluation, (3) assistance in the diagnosis of educational needs and the prescription of instructional strategies, (4)…

Project Esperanza, a staff development effort, was designed in order to supplement the basic educational program for handicapped students with limited English proficiency in New York City Schools. The project served the teachers of 458 students in elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools, and provided (1) staff training and consultation;…