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Peer reviewedCornelius, Paula Lee; Semmel, Melvyn I. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1982
Pre- and posttest scores showed that LD students regress in their reading skills when they experience extended breaks in their educational programs during the summer months. Also, a five-week summer reading program during either the first or last half of the summer can prevent this regression. (SW)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Lachney, Morgan Eugene – Pointer, 1976
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Program Descriptions
Dyson, Margaret – 1980
Thirty-five children with reading problems received lessons by mail for 6 weeks in the summer. Lessons included illustrations and pictures and provided tokens for motivation. Significant differences were found in pre- and posttest gains in reading achievement between Ss and a control group. Subsequent studies demonstrated further value of…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Home Programs
Adams, Janet Southern – Canadian Journal for Exceptional Children, 1986
Summer day camps for learning disabled elementary school students can help children to maintain and improve academic and social skills that may otherwise regress during summer vacation. Two such New Brunswick programs are described in terms of rationale, camp structure and organization, funding, student selection, staff selection, training,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Day Camp Programs, Elementary Education, Financial Support
Download full textBechtel, Leland P. – 1975
Reported are the final 2 years of a program which provided identification and remediation services for 60 potentially dyslexic preschool children and 45 dyslexic elementary grade children. Described for the preschool program are materials and evaluative devices and methods of remediation which stressed development of perceptual motor skills,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedNelson, J. Ron; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1992
Effects of a summary skills learning strategy on the comprehension of science text were examined with five elementary-age urban minority students with learning disabilities participating in a summer remedial program. The strategy produced clear improvement in comprehension which was associated with similar improvements in the completeness of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: effects of focus of prescription on remedial readers' reading achievement; a parent tutorial reading skills packet; effects of leadership training for Right to Read directors; methods for…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching
Community School District 9, Bronx, NY. – 1979
Programs undertaken by Community School District 9 in Bronx, New York, funded by Title I of the Elementary Secondary Education Act and Impact Aid, are evaluated in this report. The following programs are presented: (1) Basic Skills Center Reading Program, (2) Project Best (a bicultural/bilingual reading and math program for Spanish dominant…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
