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Peer reviewedLombardi, Thomas P.; Hotsinpiller, Pam – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1979
A life career education program for 35 elementary multiply handicapped retarded students resulted in positive changes in areas of academics, communication, interest, self-concept, self-help, and task performance. (CL)
Descriptors: Career Education, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedShapiro, Lillian P.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1977
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Early Childhood Education, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedGarrard, Kay R.; Saxon, Samuel A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Deafness, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Borus, Judith F. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1973
Demonstrated with 4 severely language deficient boys (7- to 11-years-old) was the feasibility of using operant principles in language therapy with a small group of behaviorally disturbed children to develop an imitative verbal repertoire. (LS)
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research, Group Therapy, Imitation
Friedl, Michael; And Others – 1977
The study investigated the effects of the overcorrection procedure of functional movement training (in which praise and physical contact are offered for correct positions) on establishing and maintaining the visual attending of a multihandicapped, profoundly retarded learner (20 years old) in a public school program. The effectiveness of positive…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Behavior Modification, Case Studies
Download full textBlake, Gary D. – 1970
To determine the effectiveness, feasibility, and desirability of providing rehabilitation services to the adult deaf in a residential facility for handicapped hearing persons, 131 deaf clients were studied during 3 years. Forty were multiply handicapped while the majority were underachievers. The program was viewed as only desirable to a degree…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Problems, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments
Gordon, Ronnie; And Others – 1975
Presented are the final reports of a two-part project designed to measure the effect of an intensive inpatient developmental program on 40 young multi-handicapped children (18-36 months old) and their parents. Part 1 describes a system developed and tested to record and analyze changes in child functioning. Reported are results from…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Development, Exceptional Child Education, Exceptional Child Research
Peniston, Eugene – 1975
Evaluated was the effectiveness of the Portage Home Visit (PHV) Parent Involvement Program in improving the IQ's, and motor, language, adaptive and personal-social developmental skills of 36 multiply handicapped developmentally delayed preschoolers in rural Wisconsin during 36 consecutive weekly sessions. Home trainers provided parents with…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Research, Home Instruction
McCarthy, Robert E.; Bakaitis, Patricia – 1975
Evaluated were the effects of music therapy sessions on the behavior of approximately 300 moderately retarded, physically handicapped and multiply handicapped students. Data on attentive behavior and disruptive behavior were recorded by 37 special education teachers, 25 instructional aides and one principal who were trained to observe and record…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Riall, Ann; Kelly, W. Jeffrey – 1978
The study involving two profoundly retarded, multiply handicapped children (8 and 11 years old) was designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the time delay/stimulus-transfer procedure and a progressive cue teaching strategy on the initial acquisition of verbal control over motor behaviors of Ss. The time delay strategy consisted of two…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Children, Cues, Exceptional Child Research
Silverstein, Leonard – 1975
Presented is an evaluation of a program in seven schools in New York City which provided 19 special classes for 174 doubly handicapped students--mentally retarded and severely physically handicapped--ranging in age from 5 to 21 years old. Among findings listed are that the 30 higher functioning Ss who were given the Wide Range Achievement Test did…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mathematics, Mental Retardation
