This paper describes the Child Study Center (CSC) of the Pinellas County, Florida, Pupil Services Demonstration Project, an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project. The purpose of the CSC is to provide the diagnostic, prescriptive, and consultative intervention necessary to assist referred students with serious learning problems in…

Describes a program which uses learning centers and a task-completion approach to teach students with reading difficulties. (KS)

This paper describes the three phases in the evolution of the Mount Royal College (Canada) Learning Assistance Program, beginning with the clinical approach (1969), moving to a credited class structure (1970), and finally to the present non-credit workshop approach (1971). The Learning Assistance Program was established to help students needing…

Five hundred twenty-six second through sixth graders were identified as needing supplementary reading instruction, their specific needs were diagnosed, and intensive prescriptive instruction was provided. A lab oriented learning center environment was prescribed which included a listening/viewing center, a decoding center, a game center, a library…

Originally supported by Title I, this project is designed to provide remedial instruction in reading and arithmetic to underachieving children in schools serving low economic level suburban areas. Participants enrolled in the project in kindergarten through grade 8 have placed in the lowest quartile in either reading or math in the chosen…

The Northwest Special Education (NWSE) program model was designed to identify and provide analysis of academic and behavioral characteristics of rural area learning disabled students to facilitate prescriptive planning to be carried out through tutorial activities. Formal assessment procedures were carried out by the consultant while informal…

Now in the 17th year of operation, this project is a laboratory program designed to provide remedial instruction to improve the achievement in reading and/or mathematics skills of children who test in the lowest quartile in these areas. Classroom and laboratory teachers work closely together to identify potential program participants and formulate…

A team of three educators developed and implemented a reading improvement program for first through sixth grade students who displayed discrepancies between their reading achievement and reading abilities. The program involved 283 underachieving students at seven elementary schools. The goal of the program was to provide intervention strategies…

This program was designed to improve mathematics achievement by directing intervention toward diagnosed deficiencies in number concepts, computational skills, relationships among measures, and problem solving. Four hundred and twenty second through eighth grade students participated in the program. Math lab rooms were established in each of seven…

Provided is the replication manual for the PARADE (Projects Advancing Reading Achievement and Developing Ego-Strength) project, a program designed to identify and diagnose reading problems in elementary and secondary level students entering a new school, provide an intensive program of prescriptive training, and aid the child in development of…

The Elementary Language Arts Assistance Program (ELAAP) in the Edmonton Public Schools (Ontario), was established to provide small group tutorial instruction to children who were essentially normal, but who had identified learning handicaps. General questionnaires were sent to principals, resource room teachers, and classroom teachers; resource…