Intended for parents and teachers, the manual offers guidelines for developing communication skills in severely and profoundly mentally handicapped children. An introduction helps the reader determine a suitable starting point and provides a description of early communication skills; Part II describes the five stages in communication development.…

This curriculum guide outlines and discusses communication skills which are important in pursuing a career. The guide, suggested for high school classrooms where the students do not have role models at home upon which to base skill development, lists nine course objectives and briefly sketches instructional units for voice and diction,…

The curriculum guide presents a developmental sequence of learning activities to achieve specific goals for primary, intermediate, and secondary age level trainable mentally retarded students. Six major areas of learning are covered: self care (bathroom, grooming, food, clothing, safety), body usage (gross motor, health, fitness, eye-hand…

Designed for use with the companion student book, this teacher's manual is part of a course to acquaint high school students with the common competencies related to all public service jobs. (The one-quarter course, "Preparing for Public Service," is the second in a series of three developed as a comprehensive approach to vocational skill…

This paper provides guidelines for the development of three distinct approaches to teaching interpersonal communication: a humanistic approach, a skills-oriented approach, and a business-oriented approach. For each approach, it describes assumptions underlying the development of curriculum, suggests questions for use in the generation of study…

The Career English Curriculum Guide has been prepared to better equip students with communication skills required in the working world. Basic skills of reading job-related materials and writing brief resumes are blended with the less measurable skills of developing good relationships with fellow employees and good attitudes toward work in general.…

A veterinarian-client relations course at Purdue University is described. It is designed to assist students in developing, applying, and adopting comfortable interpersonal communication and interviewing skills for interaction with clients in the practice of veterinary medicine. (BH)

Designed for training supervisors in nursing centers, this publication presents three units of study: (1) getting along with people in nursing centers, (2) supervision in nursing centers, and (3) communication in nursing centers. Each unit contains five types of material on separate, removable sheets: (1) sheets with unit objectives and suggested…

A planned sequence of general studies at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, entitled "The Link," is described. The Link addresses problems that were identified in three recent major studies of the college curriculum. Quotations from these national studies are included under seven categories of problems. Approaches to solving these problems…

One of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies, this module focuses on developing competency in effective writing through the following activities: writing functional sentences that…

The curriculum guide for teachers of trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children identifies numerous skills appropriate to three developmental levels (level one, chronological age (CA) 4 to 10 years and mental age (MA) 1 to 5 years; level two, CA 10 to 15 years and MD 3.5 to 7 years; level three, CA 15 to 18 years and MA 5 to 8 years) in the areas…

Peace education is a holistic and life-affirming process of skill building that empowers children to find creative and non-destructive ways to settle conflicts. The curriculum is built around the following concepts: (1) the basis for a peaceful world is an environment where children become friends, work and play cooperatively, and respect the…

Using the skills and knowledge obtained in Office Career Occupations No. 3, the students will continue to develop their abilities in filing, communication, and computation. A basic understanding of profit and loss, the addressing machine, and basic machine transcription will be provided. The 90-hour course also includes application problems for…

The course will enable the business education student to continue to develop skills in typewriting, filing, and communication that were begun in the prerequisite course, Office Career Occupations No. 2. The course also includes an exploration of shorthand systems and basic operations of full- and ten-key adding machines. The recognition of both…

This curriculum guide addresses the physical, intellectual, and emotional growth of children. Four categories, those of physical growth, social growth, emotional growth, and development of communication skills, are said to have been selected in an effort to promote total development. Each category is described in terms of desirable concepts, along…