Eric/CrierAuthor(s): Larry A. HarrisSource: The Reading Teacher, Vol. 23, No. 4, Learning Disabilities (Jan., 1970), pp. 391, 393Published by: Wiley on behalf of the International Reading AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20196328 .

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ERIC/CRIER LARRY A. HARRIS University of North Dakota

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Use of group procsses

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Fite, Margaretta W., and Mosher, Margaret. The special reading services of the

New York City Board of Education?part II, the clinical program. The Reading

Teacher, 1959, 12, 181-186.

Golembiewski, R. T. The small group. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Methus, Hilda. Learning and therapy. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,

1953, 23, 416-421.

Schiffer, M. A therapeutic play group in a public school. Mental Hygiene, 1957,

41, 185-193.

The deficits of retarded readers

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Harris, A. J. Hoiv to increase reading ability. New York: David McKay Co., 1961. Pp. 299-300.

Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois, 1961.

Reed, H. B. C, Jr., Reitan, R. M., and Klove, H. Influences of cerebral lesions on psychological test performances of, older children. Journal of Consulting Psy chology, 1965, 29 (5), 247-251.

Reed, J. C. The ability deficits of good and poor readers. Journal of Learning

Disabilities, 1968, 1 (2), 44-49.

Reitan, R. M. Investigation of the validity of Halstead's measures of biological

intelligence. A.M.A. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1955, 73, 445-451.

Simmons, G. A., and Shapiro, B. J. Reading expectancy formulas: a warning note. Journal of Reading, 1968, 11 626-629.

Tiegs, E. W., and Clark, W. W. Manual-California achievement tests: complete

battery. Monterey, California: California Test Bureau, 1957.

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