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Reading
and Language Arts Department
LITERACY
CENTER
Central
Connecticut State University continues to combat illiteracy by
offering help for children with reading disabilities. The problems
of illiteracy begin with a frustrated child having difficulties in
reading and giving up, believing he or she will never catch up with
peers. The
Department of Reading and Language Arts' Reading Clinic provides
remedial services to students in grades two through eight as a free
service to the communities surrounding CCSU.
The
clinicians are advanced graduate students enrolled in RDG 596
Clinical Practices in Reading.
Clinicians tutor the
students on a one to one basis. Ordinarily, 24 students per
semester, and 48 students in the Summer participate in the Reading
Clinic. Clinics are offered at the reading center on the campus of
CCSU and, when necessary, in local schools. Clinics have been held
in New Britain, Plainville, Waterbury, Winsted and Hartford.
Clinicians test the students to identify their reading disability,
then work with them to overcome it. A case report is submitted to
the student's regular classroom teacher at the end of the
term with a series
of recommendations to foster the educational growth for that
specific child. Also, parent conferences are held at the end of the
clinic session.
Students attend the
clinic twice a week during the spring and fall and four times a week
during the summer. Children can be referred by their school, from
clinicians who previously worked in the Reading Clinic, or from
their parents. CCSU professors of reading and language arts, serve
as the Clinical Supervisors.
In
addition to providing services to children, the reading clinic
serves as a repository for current materials related to remedial and
corrective techniques in reading. The center, along with the
department bookroom, maintains a variety of print and non-print
remedial materials,
including reading series, relevant software and other materials and
equipment related to the wide range of abilities in reading.
Educators, parents or
others can inquire about Reading Clinic Services by contacting the
Department at 860.832.2175.
Click
here for a [Literacy
Center Application.] Simply print out the application, fill it
out and return it to
the department of Reading and Language Arts.
For more information contact:
Dr.
Jesse Turner, Director
Barnard
Hall, Room 234
Phone:
860.832.2178
Fax:
860.832.2109
Email: [TurnerJ@CCSU.EDU]
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