Experiential education has served as a setting for therapeutic intervention in treatment of a communications handicapped young adult. Ways are reported in which newly-learned communications skills were successfully applied in an off-campus setting and transferred to campus and home. (Author/LBH)

Four suggested typologies from the literature for classifying program "types" provide a base for analyzing the problem of nomenclature in experiential education. A recommended typology of program types is presented, along with the positions supporting the types selected as well as those rejected. (Author/LBH)