Based on a review of the literature involving group counseling and guidance activities with learning impaired adolescent students, the present article focuses on the cooperative assistance that counselors and special education teachers can provide for the learning disabled. A rationale and set of procedures are suggested to incorporate group activities for the less severely impaired so as to facilitate their reintegration into regular classrooms.
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