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Brewer, Garry D.; Kakalik, James S. – 1974
In remarks made to the 1974 Executives Conference of the Child Welfare League of America, the author summarizes a 2-year multidisciplinary study of U.S. programs and services for handicapped (specifically vision and hearing impaired) children and their families. Described are the study's first year efforts to identify the population, services…
Descriptors: Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Exceptional Child Research
Shick, Richard L., Ed.; Stitch, Thomas F., Ed. – 1974
Presented is a curriculum guide for preschool handicapped children revised by a summer workshop group of 30 teacher trainees. Part One is an overview of basic considerations in developing, organizing and administering early childhood programs. Provided are checklists for identifying such handicaps as behavior disorders, learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Administration, Check Lists, Creative Development, Curriculum Guides
Freund, Janet W. – 1969
Seven of 14 high school students with learning disabilities were placed in a resource room. Results were mixed, but staff affirmed the need for a special program. Learning disability programs in the elementary schools underlying the high school were proposed. Also, programs at 12 other high schools were reviewed along with the literature on the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child Research, Identification
Gloss, Garvin G.; And Others – 1969
Briefed are the planning, the committee work, and the supportive legislation which followed the conception of Ohio's gifted program. The procedural methodology used by the Division of Special Education to encourage the initiation of programs and to disseminate information of research, monographic contributions, and demonstration results is…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advanced Placement Programs, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance
Klein, Genevieve, Ed.; And Others – 1967
Involving seven Tucson school districts, a children's home, and a child guidance clinic, the Covert School (Children Offered Vital Educational Retraining and Therapy) was designed to initiate, compare, and evaluate educational approaches to the problems of emotionally disturbed children. Six distinct approaches were implemented, including a…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Behavior Problems, Day Schools, Educational Therapy
Texas Education Agency, Austin.
Presented is the final report of Project CHILD, a research effort to develop and validate screening procedures for the identification of language disabled (LD) children, three intervention models for LD children, and a competency based teacher education model. In the two phases of the first study, a battery of screening tests was evaluated with a…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Education, Exceptional Child Research
PASCH, DOROTHY F.; AND OTHERS – 1968
A TITLE III PROJECT OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965, THE CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT-PLACEMENT-INSTRUCTION CENTER (CAPIC) STUDIES AND TREATS CHILDREN WHO MANIFEST LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS WITH NO RECOGNIZABLE CAUSES. THE REPORT, A LOG OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON DURING THE PLANNING PERIOD, PRESENTS DEFINITIONS OF 24…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Education Service Centers, Educational Diagnosis, Exceptional Child Research
House, Ernest R.; And Others – 1968
Initiated in 1964, the Illnois gifted program provided funds for development of local gifted programs by local districts. General purposes and criteria for individual programs were realized with varying success. Gifted programs increased and were extended to less wealthy and smaller districts; techniques and inservice education spilled over into…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Innovation, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child Research
Maryland State Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore. – 1966
The comprehensive state plan which is reported was developed over an 18-month period by nine cooperating task forces and uses federal, state, and community resources. After an outline of 10 priority recommendations for the state, a general discussion of mental retardation is given which includes estimates of prevalence at city, state, and national…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Needs
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1975
The annotated bibliography on tests and measurements for identification of the gifted contains approximately 75 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1959 to 1973 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, Bibliographies, Creativity
Union Township Board of Education, NJ. – 1968
Designed as a perceptual enrichment program for all kindergarten children, the project also emphasizes intensive perceptual training for children manifesting dificiency in this area of development. Screening was done of 869 pre-kindergarten children; those scoring in the lowest 5% on any one or more of the subtests or falling in the lowest 10% of…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten Children
Laycock, S.R.; Findlay, J.A. – 1968
Responses of all 54 district superintendents of schools in British Columbia to a 40-item questionnaire on educational provisions for emotionally disturbed children are reported along with the results of interviews and visits. Discussion and recommendations concern the following areas in education for the emotionally disturbed: general educational…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Educational Finance, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
O'Brien, Rosemary, Comp. – 1976
Provided is a manual describing a model for early childhood services for visually impaired children (birth to school readiness) developed in Montgomery County, Maryland; presenting the philosophical framework from which the services were developed; and providing some field-tested strategies for intervention with the children and their families.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conceptual Schemes, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Research