Special Reading Programs �FR�

�The purpose of this research is to examine the key points contained in Allington's article regarding special reading programs. The plan of the research will be to set forth Allington's principal arguments, and then to discuss his views on the structure of past, existing, and proposed remedial-literacy programs for children who have been identified as more difficult to teach than pupils in the educational mainstream.

Allington says that children who have been identified as learning-disabled compared to typical elementary school students are so labeled by reason of problems they have in learning to read and write. To meet the needs of such marginalized students, a "second system" of education (99ff.) has evolved since the late 1960s to run parallel with the "first system," geared toward educating students in the mainstream. Allington provides a legis

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