The Child Service Demonstration Centers were federally funded programs serving learning disabled students. This report synthesizes information from ten years of operation of these centers, which constituted the federal government's first major effort to meet the educational needs of the learning disabled. Particular emphasis is placed on the areas of diagnostics, training, research, replication, student characteristics, and intervention models.
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