Teaching reading to slow and disabled learners /
Samuel A. Kirk, Joanne Marie Kliebhan, and Janet W. Lerner.
- Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1978
- xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Slow and disabled learners -- 2. Preparing children for reading -- 3. Developmental reading methods and materials -- 4. Adaptation of methods and materials for atypical learners: early stages of reading -- 5. Adaptation of methods and materials for atypical learners: advanced stages of reading -- 6. Specialized remedial reading techniques -- 7. Informal assessment procedures -- 8. Formal assessment procedures -- 9. Reading research: slow and disabled learners.
In this new work my co-authors and I have attempted to describe the characteristics and problems of slow and disabled learners; to discuss procedures and controversies in preparing these children for reading; to explain at some length the stages of development and the needs of children who are not developing at the expected rate.