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Sally Liberman Smith (May 7, 1929 – December 1, 2007) was an American educator.Smith founded the Lab School for children with learning difficulties in 1967. [1] She was also a professor in the School of Education and the Head of the Graduate Program in Special Education at the American University until the time of her death.
Reading for special needs has become an area of interest as the understanding of reading has improved. Teaching children with special needs how to read was not historically pursued under the assumption of the reading readiness model [1] that a reader must learn to read in a hierarchical manner such that one skill must be mastered before learning the next skill (e.g. a child might be expected ...
Of all students with specific learning disabilities, 70–80% have deficits in reading. The term "Developmental Dyslexia" is often used as a synonym for reading disability; however, many researchers assert that there are different types of reading disabilities, of which dyslexia is one. A reading disability can affect any part of the reading ...
Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) was developed in 1993 by Dr. John T. Guthrie with a team of elementary teachers and graduate students. The project designed and implemented a framework of conceptually oriented reading instruction to improve students' amount and breadth of reading, intrinsic motivations for reading, and strategies of search and comprehension.
Language-based learning disabilities or LBLD are "heterogeneous" neurological differences that can affect skills such as listening, reasoning, speaking, reading, writing, and math calculations. [1] It is also associated with movement, coordination, and direct attention.
The RTI approach encompasses tiered levels of support and interventions to adequately meet students' academic needs. [1] It was originally developed as a method for supporting students who appear below-grade level in demonstrating academic skills and identifying students with learning disabilities.
Written by a speech-language pathologist and a learning disabilities educator, Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes is a language textbook for elementary and intermediate-level students. [1] [2] Jan Roebken created the cover and additional interior illustrations. [1] The book reprints fifty-seven Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, organized into five ...
Student teaching vocabulary. The method of having students teach other students has been present since antiquity. [1] Most often this was due to lack of resources. For example, the Monitorial System was an education method that became popular on a global scale during the early 19th century.