Those who teach children elementary mathematics will welcome
A Guide To The Diagnostic Teaching of Arithmetic
by Dr. Fredricka Reisman. Her book fills a large gap in the literature pertaining to learning disabilities. In this month's contributions there are three programs, in book form, for teaching disadvantaged children, preschool children and young learning disability children. The methods of
Bereiter and Engelmann, though well known, have recently received a validating boost from comparison research.
Ronnie Stephanie Goodfriend's
approach is more traditional but in a “modern” sense, while
Marion Blank
presents important techniques for investigating and enriching the language, communication systems and personal relationships between teacher and child, especially in a one-to-one tutoring situation.
Nicem Indexes
will help resource seeking people find what they want, while
Computex
will help teachers, research workers and even children find score percentages quickly. Another good book which can form the basis of a self-development personality training program is
I Have Feelings
by Terry Berger. Mathematics again comes into the picture with the
Say-it
games, and math is also one of the subjects in the book on
music-based instruction
by Reichard and Blackburn. All these book programs and devices are worthy of your close attention as each has something concrete to contribute to the education of learning disability, preschool and disadvantaged children. Incidentally preschool programs can often go a long way to
preventing
learning disabilities and that is why they deserve such close attention. Some day in the not too distant future all learning disability children should receive such closely prescribed corrective instruction in nursery school kindergarten and grade one that their specific learning disabilities will not be a handicap in their school careers.
