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Downing, Charles J. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1978
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mainstreaming
Best, Gary A. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1977
Surveys about mainstreaming orthopedically handicapped students were completed by 74 school administrators in California. (CL)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Alper, Theodore G. – 1978
Two-hundred and sixty-five individual education plans (IEPs) from 13 California school districts representing programs operating under traditional special education funding were evaluated to determine their comprehensiveness, specificity, clarity, and extent to which a "least restrictive environment" was provided. Through interviews with…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children, Individualized Programs
Keogh, Barbara K.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1974
Interviewed were 286 California teachers and 29 administrators in a survey designed to identify characteristics of pupils and programs included under the categories of Educational Handicapped and Educable Mentally Retarded. (DB)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educationally Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Research, Interviews
Download full textBarrick, Stanley W.; Enell, Nancy C. – 1980
The study reviewed the impact of state (California) and federal paperwork mandates in special education through an analysis of the paperwork of 37 agencies and interviews with 120 special educators. Among findings of the study were the following: the special education agency was required to collect at least 75 data items on each student; agencies…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Exceptional Child Research, Federal Legislation, Literature Reviews
Keogh, Barbara K.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1973
Descriptors: Demography, Educationally Disadvantaged, Emotional Disturbances, Ethnic Groups
Keogh, Barbara K.; And Others – 1974
Administrators of 166 California school districts were questioned regarding transition programs (mandated by legislative and court actions) for students previously classified as educable mentally retarded (EMR). Detailed program descriptions were obtained from the 10 administrators interviewed, while information from 156 districts was obtained…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Equal Education, Exceptional Child Research, Financial Support
Anderson, William W.; And Others – 1966
Of 27 children considered educationally handicapped (EH) who were screened by a psychological-medical team, 24 were eligible for a special pilot class for neurologically handicapped (brain damaged) children. Eight children were placed in the special class and made consistently greater gains in IQ scores, academic skills, and general behavior than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Jones-Booker, Roberta – 1977
Presented are findings of a study to monitor programs for the educable mentally retarded (EMR) in California, with emphasis on the numbers of racial and ethnic minority students placed in EMR classes. The document is divided into six sections: an introductory section explaining impetus for the study; Section II with background information on the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Civil Liberties, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1967
In the school year 1966-67, 283 districts in California (24% of all districts) serving 77% of the state's school children offered special classes for 16,307 educationally handicapped minors, 0.38% of the total school population. Upon a listing of both favorable areas and problems, recommendations were made to provide a current apportionment of…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Administration, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Lowenfeld, Berthold – 1968
Data elicited by two questionnaires on the characteristics (numbers, nature, extent, and location) of the multihandicapped population under 21 years of age in California are presented. Based on replies by 613 programs (47% response) and estimated to include 80 to 90% of the state's multihandicapped blind children, statistics concern…
Descriptors: Blindness, Counseling Services, Deaf Blind, Educational Programs
Robbins, Richard C.; And Others – 1967
To demonstrate creative methods and materials for the remediation of severe learning disabilities, to help children with these difficulties, and to train professional personnel, six teachers working in teams of two taught seven remedial classes with a maximum of 12 students using a program designed to remediate deficiencies in the auditory, aural,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Training, Behavior Rating Scales, Dyslexia
