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Handbook of Pupil Experiences for "High Challenge" Children - Those Children with Learning Problems.
Download full textJones, Juanita; And Others – 1971
The guide is intended to familiarize primary grade teachers with the special learning characteristics of students with a high risk for a learning disability (those who are beginning to show an inability to work with symbols or to think abstractly) and to assist the teachers in the diagnosis of the specific nature of their learning problems.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Education, Guidelines
Gense, D. Jay; Gense, Marilyn – National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind, 2004
Children learn about their environment as they move through it--about people and objects, sizes, shapes, and distances. For typically developing children the senses of sight and hearing provide the greatest motivation for exploration. These children will use their vision and hearing to gather information about their surroundings while growing in…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Student Motivation, Assistive Technology, Visually Impaired Mobility
Mayberry, Lupita; Karr-Kidwell, PJ – 1981
A review is presented of research findings on the operation and functions of the two hemispheres of the brain. In tracing discoveries on hemispheric specialization (the left processing information objectively, linguistically, and linearly; the right, spacially, intuitively, and creatively) the importance of achieving a balance between the…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education
PDF pending restorationBiddle, Candace Thornton; And Others – 1984
This K-12 reading curriculum for exceptional child education is arranged in a format comparable to the general education curriculum, and is sequenced in the order in which most children learn. The curriculum begins with a list of 123 objectives of the reading program. The objectives cover the areas of perceptual skills, word attack, structural…
Descriptors: Braille, Curriculum, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Dake, Dennis M. – 1977
Scientific discoveries concerning the bimodal functioning of the human brain have influenced the creation of a visual literacy methodology program at Iowa State University for future art teachers. Student teachers plan and prepare visual lesson plans designed to reverse the traditional pedagogical reliance on faculties dominated by left hemisphere…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Cerebral Dominance, Lesson Plans
Blank, Marion – 1968
Research has indicated that one significant deficiency in the intellectual capabilities of disadvantaged children is a disability in abstract thinking. Although all very young children lack this ability, the environment of the middle class child provides an opportunity so that as this child matures, the ability to think in abstract terms naturally…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Deduction, Disadvantaged
Logan, Thomas E. – 1975
Presented are numerous motor development activities for sensory impaired, severely and profoundly mentally retarded, and multiply handicapped mentally retarded students of all ages. Background information is provided on program objectives and administration, the multiply handicapped child, motor development, and methods of movement training.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Deaf Blind, Exceptional Child Education
Fisher, Maurice D. – 1971
This inquiry demonstrated how the educational assumptions underlying the Montessori Method can be applied to constructing educational objectives and evaluating programs for culturally disadvantaged children. Initially, it was shown how these assumptions concentrate upon significant areas of human development. Then, information about…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives, Feedback
Portland Public Schools, OR. – 1968
This guide is being used in the Individualized Motor-Perceptual Study to determine whether working directly with kindergarten children to improve performance on motor-perceptual tasks will affect reading ability at the end of grades one, two, and three. The 5-year project involves six schools. In this guide, there are tips for teaching, suggested…
Descriptors: Activities, Experiential Learning, Eye Hand Coordination, Grade 1
Peer reviewedRogow, Sally M. – RE:view, 1992
The development of visual perception skills in children with partial vision as well as developmental disabilities is considered. A model of visual learning is offered which incorporates the role of visual experience, movement, and visual learning. Specific teaching suggestions for developing visual attention and visual search skills are offered.…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Learning Activities, Models, Multiple Disabilities
Basham, K. Lynn; Kotrlik, Joe W. – Journal of Technology Education, 2008
Spatial abilities are fundamental to human functioning in the physical world. Spatial reasoning allows people to use concepts of shape, features, and relationships in both concrete and abstract ways, to make and use things in the world, to navigate, and to communicate. Surgeons, pilots, architects, engineers, mechanics, builders, farmers, trades…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Educational Technology, Spatial Ability, Grade 9
American Inst. for Mental Studies, Vineland, NJ. – 1983
A study tested the feasibility of a task-analytical instructional approach to developing vocational skills for severely and profoundly retarded individuals. During the study, each of 43 severely and profoundly retarded individuals received twelve 15-minute individual training sessions on each of four selected vocational tasks (the Stromberg…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Individualized Instruction, Job Skills, Motor Development
Singh, Mary C.; And Others – 1977
The purpose of this research was to determine whether student achievement in reading and spelling could be improved by using a typewriting instructional technique rather than a handwriting technique. The subjects were 23 second, third, and fourth grade students who scored significantly below the norms on segments of the Illinois Test of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Developmental Programs, Educational Media
Saunders, Russell W., Jr. – 1978
Teachers at the primary level should resume the neglected practice of diagnostic teaching. This means that the teacher should observe all aspects of a student's cognitive behavior in the teaching/learning act and then plan instructional strategies for subsequent lessons. Some significant cognitive behaviors observable in diagnostic teaching are…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Ability, Diagnostic Teaching, Listening Skills
Union Township Board of Education, NJ. – 1974
This booklet describes the Specific Education of the Eye (SEE) program, an experimental kindergarten program which emphasizes the development of sensory skills as a prerequisite of learning. The first part of the booklet describes the development, expansion, and recognition of the SEE program. Described are activities (organized in instructional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children, Learning Activities, Perception Tests
