EDUCATION 424-4

LEARNING DISABILITIES: LABORATORY

Spring, 1988

Instructor:

Dr. Leone Prock

Mondays, 4:30 - 8:20 ?

Phone: ?

291-4117

Location: MPX 8620

Office: ?

MPX 9504

Prerequisite: Educ. 422 or corequisite.

The Education 424 program is designed as the laboratory extension of

Education 422. Course content will emphasize procedures of assessment and

instructional programming that may optimally increase the achievement levels

of learning disabled students.

Program topics will include: provision of a safe environment; controlled

instruction; assessment; record-keeping and data management; task analysis;

perceptual and cognitive skill development; "invention" techniques for

treatment; behaviour management.

A major course requirement involves tutoring a learning disabled child. Class

members should plan to schedule 4-6 hours per week, especially during the

months of February and March, for these activities. Tutoring time (outside of

class time) will be arranged individually by the Education 424 student and the

child she/he selects.

Details of the tutoring program, and other course requirements will be

explicated at the first class meeting.

Text:

Mann, P.H., Suiter, P.A., McClung, R.M. Handbook in Diagnostic Prescriptive

Teaching. (abridged 2nd or 3rd edition), Allyn & Bacon.