ALL THREE PHASES OF THE EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL GUIDANCE PROJECT, CONDUCTED BY THE TOLEDO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WERE CARRIED OUT SIMULTANEOUSLY. PHASE 1, REMEDIAL AND COUNSELOR CENTERED, DEMONSTRATED A TRADITIONAL ELEMENTARY GUIDANCE PROGRAM AND SOUGHT TO INTEGRATE SERVICES INTO A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM. PHASE 2, DEVELOPMENTAL AND TEACHER CENTERED, INVOLVED…

The column examines five university based child development centers and/or child study clinics which work with handicapped children. (PHR)

The report describes a 3-year, ongoing pilot project designed to devise a remedial educational program for 10 autistic elementary school children (5- to 12-years-old) that would prepare some students for subsequent entry into regular or special education public school classes. Described is a typical daily schedule emphasizing individual…

School districts in New York State have been engaged in developing E.S.E.A. Title I projects since 1965. This document represents an attempt to formulate some aspects of this experience in a form useful for project directors. The content of this report is based on the recorded experiences of one school district during the summer of 1970 in running…

The Thomasville City School District offers an 8-weeks summer program for students in grades 1 through 6. The program consists of individualized and small group instruction, with an emphasis on improving reading skills. Areas covered include vocabulary, comprehension, oral and written expression, and basic arithmetic. Evan though the program's…

The Elementary Reading Centers located in 36 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, urban schools provide supplementary remedial reading instruction to pupils with low reading achievement and provide reading resource teachers to assist and train classroom teachers. Reading teachers emphasize comprehension, vocabulary development, word recognition, study skills,…

The elementary school in Pojoaque, New Mexico, has recently developed a remedial reading program for children in grades 2 to 4. Eighty-three children participated in 1969-70. As the population of the area is 76 percent Spanish-American, 12 percent Indian, 12 percent white, and less than 1 percent black, work in the program focuses on language and…

A program is described that successfully teaches decoding to poor readers of average or above intelligence in grades 1 through 8. The teacher-directed, supplemental program guides students to become aware of language patterns and consistencies and to apply a decoding process of using known language patterns to figure out unknown words. (Author/JDD)