Modeling through demonstration is a viable teaching strategy for helping students acquire a variety of skills. In the present study, modeling is examined as it relates to learning disabled students' acquisition and generalization of computational skills. Data from a number of learning disabled students in three research locations are presented and summarized to validate the effectiveness of this technique.
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