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An Investigation To Determine The Relationship Of Anxiety And Reading Disability And To Study The Effects Of Group And Individual Counseling On Reading Improvement, Bernard Herman
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The purpose or this study was (1) to investigate the relationship or anxiety and reading improvement, (2) to determine whether a consistent therapeutic approach can effect a reduction in manifest anxiety, and (3) to compare the effectiveness of group and individual counseling in (a) the reduction of manifest anxiety and (b) reading improvement.
Subjects for the study were forty-five school students in grades eight and nine attending a public junior high school. The sample selected consisted or those students in remedial reading classes who were determined to be "high anxious” according to their scores on the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale …