Diagnostics and new trends of teaching «risk group» children in the USA

Abstract

The general trends of a school psychologist's activity in the educational system of the USA are represented. In terms of the tendency to individualize education, the opportunity to involve children into the general education classes but not into specialized ones seems to be more effective. It is pointed out that to satisfy the needs ofchildren with educational difficulties there was the common approach in diagnostics of difficulties in teaching children with educational difficul ties and the following technics to overcome them. The article also gives the detailed description of the stages of assistance provided by psychologists to children with educational difficulties from diagnostics to writing the individual plan of studying.

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For citation: Diagnostics and new trends of teaching «risk group» children in the USA. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie = Psychological Science and Education, 2004. Vol. 9, no. 4 (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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