Describes activities of Teaching Resource Center of City University of New York. (RT)

Outlines a module on diagnostic and prescriptive teaching which was developed for teachers in service who needed a refresher course in reading. (JM)

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of inservice education on the perceptions of teachers in the Clark County School District (Las Vegas, Nevada) toward diagnostic-prescriptive reading instruction. A special instrument was desgned for the purpose of assessing teachers' perceptions toward nine processes determined to be critical…

The Downriver Learning Disability Center and its ecological approach" which suggests that a learning disability is evidence of a faulty interaction between the child's available learning modalities and his educational eco-system. (Author/RY)

Twenty-nine federally funded demonstration projects are said to provide screening and diagnostic teaching services to learning disabled children (2-21 years old) and inservice training to teachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators. Five programs are briefly summarized. (CL)

The voluminous final technical report contains comprehensive information covering the 1973-74 activities of the Navajo Education Resource Center (NERC). The project's purpose was to develop an Indian Resource Service Office which would function as a support service system for handicapped children's programs on the Navajo Reservation and which…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves about 5,950 first, second, and third graders from 33 schools. The program hopes to significantly diminish reading problems in its children by offering three years of intensive diagnostic reading instruction for 90 minutes a day during their first three years of school. The…

The philosophy of this reading program is to guide all children to become independent readers and to stimulate them to build an abiding interest in reading a variety of materials on a wide range of topics. Essentially a diagnostic-prescriptive approach, the program instructs teachers in determining children's performance levels or potential…

Presented in this paper is a description of the Computer Assisted Renewal Education (CARE) program, which uses computer-assisted instruction to reach teachers for inservice education. The CARE program utilizes a mobile van to transport the computer and equipment from one location to another. The system includes a television tube, a set of…

An evaluation of how successful services rendered the classroom teacher in the form of in-service training for those recommending children to the Diagnostic Learning Center were. (Author)

A program adapting precision teaching in an urban elementary school is described. This program, initiated by the Teacher Corps, was used as an inservice project operating in the classroom. Four major procedural steps are described: (1) the teacher must describe an educational objective in exact terms; (2) pupil performance must be recorded daily…

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 are three manpower development programs for handicapped children selected as examplary because of program elements worthy of further study or replication. Presented in the form of case studies, each program is examined in terms of an introduction, program operations, notable features, people in the program, program evaluation,…