Category: R

Extra teaching, often tailored to individual needs, aimed at helping students make up deficiencies in knowledge or skills, especially those needed for developing more advanced skills. It is generally short-term additional instruction for students who are otherwise expected to be able to handle coursework in regular classes, as opposed to special education, which is for…

Alternate term for a private school that is church-related.  

A variety of tests used in assessing whether corrective lenses glasses or contact lenses are needed.  

A health professional who tries to ease long hospital stays for children.  

The ability to understand what is heard.  

Teaching reading by using sentences that combine words with pictures and symbols (such as a drawing of a pig or the symbol “4”), which help the beginning reader by introducing new or unfamiliar words in context.  

A popular form of natural or prepared childbirth, also called the Dick-Read method.  

The ability of a student to comprehend reading matter of a certain level of difficulty, sometimes measured by a test called Degrees of Reading Power.  

Tests that are intended to discover whether a child has the necessary skills and development to benefit fully from instruction, as in reading readiness tests. Sometimes mistakenly confused with developmental screening tests, which focus on a child’s ability to learn, readiness tests instead focus on whether the child has acquired skills needed for more advanced…

A school class for children who are age-eligible—that is, measured by chronological age they are eligible and perhaps even required to enter school—but whose developmental age is considered too low for entry into regular classes, based on various readiness tests or developmental screening tests.