A study comparing the effects of a full-time mainstreaming approach for handicapped students with a resource room approach suggested that the full-time mainstreaming approach, known as the Adaptive Learning Environments Model, exceeded the resource room in attaining desirable classroom processes, student attitudes, and student achievement in basic…

A resource program for mildly handicapped secondary students combines direct instruction with an emphasis on generalization. Additional support is given directly or indirectly (through the regular teacher). Resource teachers have to find time to consult with students and teachers, adjust the resource curriculum, and develop rapport with regular…

The Basic Skills Improvement Program, adapted from a resource program model, serves learning problem adults unable to benefit from traditional adult education. Participants are evaluated through an interdisciplinary approach, and a short-term small group instructional program is designed for them. (CL)

The looseleaf binder reports on the Educational Resource Centers (ERC) model program in Jackson County, Oregon, which fosters the mainstreaming of mildly handicapped elementary and secondary students (including learning disabled, educable mentally handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and physically handicapped). The ERC provides academic and social…

The handbook provides general information about the resource program for learning disabled (LD) students at the secondary level in Augusta County, Virginia. Noted in the section on program philosophy is the intention to provide academic skills and coping strategies through a unified combination of remedial and compensatory teaching. The section on…

Suggestions for resource room teachers working with visually impaired learning disabled students include: consideration of students' unique learning needs; assessment of functional vision; use of assistive devices (such as closed-circuit television); classroom arrangement that facilitates organization and movement; and basic skills instruction…

Intended for junior high school learning disability resource teachers and other staff personnel, the handbook provides information on selecting and scheduling students into resource programs, establishing a resource room, developing and implementing curriculum for learning disability (LD) students, reporting the progress of students, and listing…

Project CAPABLE (Classroom Action Program: Aim: Basic Learning Efficiency) is a classroom approach which integrates the basic learning skills with content. The goal of the project is to use basic learning skills to enhance the learning of content and at the same time use the content to teach basic learning skills. These monthly reports explain how…