"Transenvironmental programming" is presented as a databased approach for promoting regular class success for handicapped students by carefully programing resource room instruction. An experimental study, with a 12-year-old student with behavior problems and academic deficiencies, is described which supports the efficacy of the approach.…

The generalization of specific social skills to new environments by four elementary aged learning-disabled students was studied using a modified multiple baseline, single-subject research design. During one spring semester, each student was trained for 12 weeks in the use of a specific social skill (such as compliance, cooperative play, or…

This study evaluated the transfer of decoding skills from a code-emphasis program that used a controlled text to a literature-based basal reading series consistent with the whole language approach. Participants were 11 elementary students with learning disabilities who received reading instruction in a resource program. Results found students…

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…