This stydy explores the use of resource rooms as instructional centers for children with learing disabilities, and compares them to a selfcontained special class. The results of this study showed that some children with learning disabilities need the total teaching structure provided by a full day's work in a special class. However, the majority of children with learning disabilities in this study achieved as well with daily visits of short duration to resource rooms as a matched group in special classes.
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