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EDUCATION 424-4 LEARNING DISABILITIES LABORATORY

Regular Summer

Wednesdays, 1:

PREREQUISITE:

This course is

remediation of

adolescents.

Semester

DO-4:50

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designed

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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"