Instructional Practices for Promoting Skill Acquisition and Generalization in Severely Learning Disabled Adolescents
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Learning Disability Quarterly
- Vol. 4 (4), 415-421
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1510744
Abstract
Programming options for learning disabled (LD) adolescents have received increased attention over the past decade. In addition to curriculum-related issues, efforts must also be aimed at solving the basic question of how to instruct LD adolescents to ensure maximum skill acquisition and generalization. Results of research conducted with a wide range of LD adolescents have shown that severely learning disabled (SLD) students need very stringent and systematic instructional procedures in order to acquire and apply learning strategies. Using a learning strategies approach, this article outlines specific procedures designed to promote acquisition and generalization of learning strategies in LD adolescents. First students are taught a specific strategy in isolation before being asked to apply it to controlled materials, and later to transfer the strategy to regular-class content. Unless sound instructional practices are implemented, the performance of SLD students is adversely affected.Keywords
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