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Peer reviewedDellinger, John K.; Shope, Linda J. – Mental Retardation, 1978
The 76 responses received from over 300 questionnaires sent to Pennsylvania county programs for distribution to direct service community living arrangement staff (persons working with the mentally retarded on a full-time, live-in basis) indicated that there was a high rate of turnover of staff and that more inservice training was desired. (IM)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Group Homes, Mental Retardation, Needs Assessment
Goodman, Libby; Mann, Lester – 1977
Presented is the final report of a needs assessment survey conducted to determine the number of secondary students in Montgomery County (Maryland) who are potential candidates for learning disabilities programs. Following an introduction, a section on procedures outlines project limitations, sample selection, and screening criteria. Reported among…
Descriptors: Demography, Exceptional Child Research, Incidence, Learning Disabilities
Download full textBishop, Virginia E. – 1967
A three-part study provides supportive data to reinforce a request for revision of Pennsylvania's school vision screening standards in order to properly identify visually limited children. The school vision screening policies of 35 states are surveyed in nine tables, and the problems involved in screening practices are discussed. The reactions of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Partial Vision
Peer reviewedBrady, William A.; Hall, Donald Elliott – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1976
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Incidence
Hayes, Robert B.; And Others – 1976
Investigated with a random sample of classes for each of five categories of exceptionality--educable mentally retarded, trainable mentally retarded, socially and emotionally disturbed, brain injured, and physically handicapped--were the costs of special education in Pennsylvania elementary and secondary schools in relation to its quality. Data…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Educational Quality
Hayes, Robert B. – 1977
Summarized are findings and reported in tables are data from the 1975-76 evaluation of Pennsylvania's special education services for 2,308 trainable and educable mentally retarded, physically handicapped, brain injured, and socially and emotionally disturbed elementary and secondary students. It is explained that measures of student progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Reynolds, Robert N.; And Others – 1978
The 2-year study reports on student progress, quality of instructional programs and costs for five groups of 7,000 exceptional students in Pennsylvania; educable mentally retarded, trainable mentally retarded, physically handicapped, socially and emotionally disturbed, and brain injured. Instruments are said to have included the Wide Range…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
