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Abahusain, Wedad A. – Education, 2016
This study aims at highlighting the reasons behind the variation of the level of the parents' satisfaction with the services provided by the resources rooms to their children with learning disabilities in Saudi Arabia. The study sample consisted of 283 parents of female students. The instrument of data collection was a questionnaire consisting of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Learning Disabilities, Intervention
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Glover, Patti; McLaughlin, Thomas; Derby, K. Mark; Gower, Jan – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
Introduction: The use of Direct Instruction (DI) flashcards has been suggested as an effective classroom intervention procedure. The present case report examined the use of DI flashcards with two adolescents with learning disabilities. Objectives: The purpose of this research was to increase the correct rate and decrease the error rate for…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Visual Aids
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O'Connor, Peter D.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1979
Elementary school pupils identified as being a year or more behind in reading and/or math achievement and who were observed as spending low percentages of time on task were selected for participation in an intensive engineered resource room program. Groups of approximately 10 Ss participated in each of three eight-week intervention phases. (Author)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Attention Span, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Mosby, Robert J.; Tharpe, Ken – 1977
The booklet describes a rationale for teaching junior high school level learning disabled (LD) students. The author discusses how to recognize an LD profile, how to screen for learning disabilities, and how to diagnose using the discrepancy model (chart illustrating the difference between I.Q. expectancy and actual performance). A description of…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Diagnosis, Identification, Intervention
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Knapczyk, Dennis R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1989
Three learning disabled fourth-grade students who asked few questions in their mainstream class viewed videotaped exemplars of question-asking, received structured opportunities for rehearsing question-asking, and received feedback. The resource room training procedures were effective in increasing the level of question-asking and in improving…
Descriptors: Generalization, Intermediate Grades, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Lanier, Cynthia C. – 1991
This paper describes a program in which community members (retired citizens, parents, and others) provided tutorial services over a 12-week period to five learning disabled primary grade students in a resource room program. Comparison of pretest and posttest results showed a greater than 20 percent increase in reading scores. Weekly spelling test…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education, Problem Solving
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project investigating the effectiveness of class-wide peer mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of repeated reading, in which pairs of students…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Caccamo, James M. – 1985
Possible reasons for the nationwide increase in the number of children identified as learning disabled (LD) include abrogation of general education's responsibility toward difficult to educate children, increasing differences in preservice general and special education training, the increase in parent/student rights litigation, and parental…
Descriptors: Incidence, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Primary Education
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project that investigated the effectiveness of class-wide, peer-mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of sustained oral reading practice, in which…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
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Marston, Douglas – Journal of Special Education, 1988
The impact of regular and special education on 11 learning-disabled children in fourth through sixth grade was studied by analyzing their slope of improvement on curriculum-based measures of reading scores. A time series analysis indicated that daily reading instruction in a resource room was a more effective intervention than regular education.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This report studied intermediate grade students identified as learning disabled in a resource room setting to examine the effects of adapting repeated reading and sustained reading while manipulating level of text difficulty in a peer-mediated format. Twelve resource room teachers identified 67 students with learning disabilities and reading…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
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Shapiro, Edward S.; Ager, Christina – Elementary School Journal, 1992
Proposes a model of an integrated, problem-solving approach for conducting assessments of children with academic skills problems in regular classroom settings. Presents a case study that illustrates the implementation of the model for a fourth grader with a learning disability. (GLR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
deNomme, Dennis A. – 1994
This practicum was designed to ensure that junior high students with learning disabilities experience a successful transition back into the regular classroom from the resource room. The focus was on increasing communication between the regular classroom teacher and the resource room teacher, evaluating transition candidates using a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades, Interpersonal Communication