Motivated by a desire to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies, librarians at the Marston Science Library (Marston) at the University of Florida (UF) developed Girls Tech Camp (GTC), a summer camp designed to introduce middle-school girls to creative technologies used in these fields. This week-long…

Objective: The teaching of child psychiatry in Australian medical schools is under review: the content, the placement of the field within medical curricula, and the appropriate teaching and learning methods are all contested. The authors developed a 1-day program in the 9-week child and adolescent health course conducted in the final two semesters…

A case study is presented of Westport Associates, a corporation in Westport, Massachusetts, which operates small group homes for formerly institutionalized men and women with severe disabilities. Westport Associates was founded to create the antithesis of an institution, to treat residents as individuals worthy of respect, and to offer residents…

Noting that in Scotland there are a variety of provisions for preschool children organized and funded by different local authorities, private businesses, and voluntary organizations, this report describes the findings of a 2-year study into educational provision and day care for preschool children between the ages of 2 and 4 in Scotland. The study…

Part-time day legal education--the need, purposes, drawbacks, and how it has been and is being utilized--is discussed. Part-time day legal education is seen as being available to a group of people who have been restricted from attending law school, i.e., parents, usually women. A survey is reported. (MLW)

The report describes activities and findings of an 18-month project which surveyed day and other non-residential services provided to persons with mental retardation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An introductory section describes project purposes, followed by a description of project methods (sampling plan, questionnaire development,…