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Videotapes on Learning Disabilities Program Outcomes
Based on Bridges to Practice

The New England States, under a training and dissemination grant from the National Institute for Literacy to the Massachusetts Department of Education, formed a partnership to enhance their ability to serve adults with learning disabilities who are registered in adult education programs. Each state was asked to determine the most important outcome of the grant work and then provide a two-hour presentation that described the work and indicated how this could be used as a model of other States in the program. The work was to be based on Bridges to Practice: A Research-based Guide for Practitioners Working with Adults with Learning Disabilities, the publication that NIFL funded and that was the basis for the training and dissemination grants that were awarded. The speakers offer wonderful insights into how any state can provide better service for adults with learning disabilities if there is a concerted effort and a collaboration among agencies.

Maine

Evelyn Beaulieu, Shannon Cox, and Faye Olsen describe changes in the learning disabilities training of adult educators and volunteer tutors in Maine. The teaching techniques are strongly related to the Equipped For the Future materials that NIFL also produces. Video Transcript
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New Hampshire

For New Hampshire, Linda Swenson and Patricia Nelson describe how identification of adults at high risk for learning disabilities led to a change in the way many agencies in the state work together to provide better service. Video Transcript
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Vermont

Ann Crocker and Louise Masten describe how Vermont programs provide better service as a result of the Bridges project. Their presentation is filled with ideas for educators who want to improve their program and help their students get the help they need. Video Transcript
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Rhode Island

Steven Brunero describes how Rhode Island has produced a system of referrals for both adult education agencies and community service agencies that makes better use of time, money, and personnel in all areas, and provides a much smoother service system for adults who have, or may have, learning disabilities. Video Transcript
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