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Download full textYoung, Barbara N. – 1990
This study investigated the correlation between self-concept and reading achievement level in 20 reading-disabled students (mean age 10.3 years, mean grade level 4.75), having average intelligence. Self-concept was assessed using the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale and reading achievement level by the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Intelligence, Intermediate Grades
Taylor, Susan Dyer – 1997
A study investigated the educational levels of 196 inmates (85 percent male, most Caucasian, 5 ethnic groups represented) of the Cumberland County Jail (CCJ) in Portland, Maine, using a self-perception instrument and the results of the Tests of Applied Literacy Skills. Information was obtained regarding gender, age, recidivism, highest level of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Attainment, Educational Needs
McAlexander, Patricia J.; And Others – 1992
This book briefs teachers on how to analyze individual students' spelling errors and coach them on strategies to overcome them. Although the book deals with spelling weaknesses of both learning disabled and basic writers, its message to practitioners can also provide help for any student who has spelling weaknesses. The book is organized in two…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Class Activities, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities
Collins, James L.; Collins, Kathleen M. – 1994
Writing processes and writing skills are highly compatible, but only if "writing skills" are defined as genuinely helpful learning strategies rather than prescriptive techniques or isolated forms and rules. Increased skill is a product of meaningful practice, not prescriptive instructions or isolated drills. In the present context, the…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Skill Development
McCabe, Don – 1982
This booklet presents a screening device to identify quickly those students who may qualify for special help but who have not been referred for testing, identification, and receiving of special education resources. The booklet notes that the original test consisted of 20 sentences, but that only one sentence gave students known to have severe…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Grobecker, Betsey – 1998
In this study, children (ages 7-12) of average intelligence who had learning disabilities (LD) (n=29) and typical children (n=30) were individually tested in a task that investigated the development of proportional structures of thought. In addition, mathematical knowledge was assessed on the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement-Revised (WJTA-R).…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Computation, Elementary Education, Intelligence Differences
White, Linda Feldmeier – 1998
The explanation of the anomalies that learning disabled students present depends on the discourse in which educators and researchers locate learning disabilities. The field of learning disabilities is a discipline in the midst of a paradigm shift in which the new discourses are incompatible with the field's basic tenets and assumptions.…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educational Diagnosis, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Moragne, Wendy – 1997
This book explains the nature of dyslexia, enumerates the various forms of treatment, and considers the many challenges faced by those living with this condition. The book defines dyslexia as a brain-based disorder that causes problems for people when they are reading, writing, spelling, doing math computation, speaking, or even listening to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia
Fulk, Barbara J. Mushinski – 1994
A study evaluated the effects of attribution training combined with spelling strategy training on spelling performance, strategy transfer, and effort attributions. Subjects, 43 adolescents with learning disabilities in grades 7 and 8, were stratified by grade level and randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: spelling strategy…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Junior High Schools
Russell, Steven C., Comp. – 1994
This booklet brings together one-page to two-page abstracts from research poster sessions held at a conference on learning disabilities. The 17 research abstracts are presented within four poster session categories: (1) research on assessment and characteristics of students with learning disabilities (with abstracts on handwriting, mainstreaming…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Freeman, John G.; And Others – 1991
Youth with learning disabilities have high rates of unemployment and underemployment. A specific aspect of the poor social skills of adolescents with learning disabilities is their inability to solve unstructured problems on the job. The PROBE module was designed to help youth with learning disabilities to overcome this problem. PROBE is one of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Employment Problems, Foreign Countries
Chalmers, Lynne – Insights into Open Education, 1992
This article discusses the experiences of an 11-year veteran learning disabilities (LD) teacher during her twelfth year of teaching when three severely learning disabled adolescent boys changed from grumbling basal reader users to active, involved readers of quality literature. The article focuses on activities to improve reading fluency and track…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Commeyras, Michelle; And Others – 1992
A study investigated whether reading instruction that emphasizes critical thinking would benefit "learning-disabled" fifth-grade students. Seven students were assigned to an instructional group that participated in a program of 10 dialogical-thinking reading lessons and 7 were assigned to a comparison group that remained with the…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness
Smith, Gayle – 1983
The Parallel Alternate Curriculum (PAC), a model providng regular content courses, in regular classes, to secondary students with learning problems, combines basic skill instruction with alternative teaching strategies. PAC, a mainstreaming implementation program, is designed to provide inservice training emphasizing the process of how students…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum, Disabilities, Inservice Teacher Education
Ratcliff, Dolores – 1980
Designed for elementary school teachers, the document presents two short puppet plays about children who are different. The first story focuses on a young boy's concerns about being adopted. The second play is about a boy who is learning disabled. The plays, which require only two acting characters, are accompanied by two song lyrics and a list of…
Descriptors: Adoption, Childhood Attitudes, Dramatics, Elementary Education
