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EDUCATION 424-4 LEARNING DISABILITIES LABORATORY
Regular Summer
Wednesdays, 1:
PREREQUISITE:
This course is
remediation of
adolescents.
Semester
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Instr: Dr.. B. Wong
Location: On campus
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422
(no waiving)
to teach students assessments and
problems in children and
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1.. That students demonstrate competent administration,of
one formal test (either in language assessment or )
reading comprehension) and informal tests to pinp4int
specific academic problems in children or adolescents.
2.
That students demonstrate competence in monitoring
remedial progress in individual children/adolescents
tutored..
To achieve objectives (2), students will be required to do a
one-month practicum, 4 mornings per week of one-hour
duration each morning in July. There will be two shifts: 9
- 10 a.m. 10 - 11:00 a.m.
USE OF CLASS TIME:
Class time will be spent on instructor's giving lectures and
demonstrations of formal and informal tests, remedial
strategies and graphing of students' remedial progress.
There will also be visits to specific Learning Assistance
Centres to demonstrate effective academic remediation of
children/adolescents identified by schools as
learning-disabled.
In April, a detailed course outline will be available in the
relevant box next to the Education receptionst.
GRADING: 207. Initial assessment
407. Lab report
407. Midterm exam
*NOTE: Please do not call the instructor for (a) permission
to take this course without having taken Education 422; (b)
for permission to attend partial lab sessions in July; (c)
permission to audit. The answer is "NO"