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Signorat, Monique; Watson, Arlyce – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1981
An orientation and mobility curriculum for multiply handicapped deaf students incorporates instruction in environmental awareness concepts, orientation reference systems, route planning, and auditory training. Instruction frequently includes a solo travel experience. The roles of the classroom teacher and of the mobility instructor are noted. (CL)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Daily Living Skills, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Buck, Michael T.; Markson, Howard J. – 1982
The two Desiderata programs which each serve 36 severely emotionally handicapped and emotionally handicapped/educationally mentally handicapped students as part of the Phoenix (Arizona) High School program are described. Results of the evaluation concluded that the two programs should be merged for consistency of programing, cost effectiveness,…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Emotional Disturbances, Group Therapy, High Schools

Lewis, Rena B. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1990
A nationwide search to locate noncommercial instructional software appropriate for students with severe, multiple handicaps found 46 Apple II programs. Common curriculum areas were cause-and-effect training, language and communication, and cognitive development. Authoring programs were common, whereas academic programs were rare. The most typical…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Courseware, Curriculum
McDermott, Sharon; Ivy, Ellen – 1981
The Parent Infant Resource Systems program at the Lexington School for the Deaf (Jackson Heights, NY) provides intensive coursework and hands on experiences for professionals concerned with the needs of hearing impaired and/or multiply handicapped hearing impaired infants and their families. One of the training activities, a 6 week training…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Hearing Impairments, Hearing Therapy, Infants
Sawicki, Donna – 1978
The report describes Project LEARN, an educational program to identify the learning disabled (LD) youths who become involved with juvenile court and to facilitate their reentry into the educational system. Chapter 1, on the project's theoretical, legal, and agency foundations reviews the LD/JD (juvenile delinquency) link as it relates to program…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Curriculum, Delinquency, Family Counseling
Wehman, Paul; And Others – 1983
The paper describes a data-based vocational curriculum for multiple handicapped adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy. Three care studies illustrate the different types of curricula that may lead to employment in the areas of micrographics filming, computer skill, and clerical work. The approach incorporates a task analysis orientation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Clerical Occupations
Lohmeier, Barbara; And Others – 1980
Competency based modules are presented for educating paraprofessionals to work with severely and multiply handicapped persons. Objectives, suggested learning activities, and performance criteria are listed for six modules (sample subtopics in parentheses): human growth and development (prenatal influences); orientation to disability and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Curriculum, Daily Living Skills
Roberts, Thomas G. – 1981
The final report summarizes activities regarding development of the Early Childhood Education for the Severely/Multiply Handicapped Project, a model demonstration program providing comprehensive and direct educational services to 0 to 6 year old children and their parents. The program and curriculum design is based on two phases--the early…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Individualized Education Programs
Martens, Elise H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
There are four groups of handicapped children for whom residential schools are generally considered indispensable. These are the blind, the deaf, the mentally deficient, and the socially maladjusted or juvenile delinquents. While each of these groups presents conditions and problems quite distinct from those of the other three, they are all marked…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Physical Disabilities, Epilepsy, Educational Needs