A technical skills curriculum in a school for behavior disordered adolescents features direct instruction of over 300 tool skills in 10 skill areas. Students are assessed, target skills identified, and feedback given after each session. The system's advantages include increased student motivation and more precise design of Individualized Education…

The paper is an autobiographical account of an educator's early experiences in teaching adolescents with behavior problems, including his attempts to work with the students to develop a curriculum related to their lives. One such curriculum--on "crooks"--that incorporated social studies, reading, writing, and art experiences is briefly recounted.…

A sample language arts/history curriculum based on state curriculum standards was created and implemented in a classroom for 22 secondary students with emotional/behavioral disorders in a residential treatment program. Emphasis on story elements and narrative summary writing resulted in improvements in both summary writing skills and academic…

Curriculum content for adolescents with behavioral disorders should emphasize academic learning as well as social and behavioral skill development. "Therapeutic academics" is proposed as a process of teaching academics that is therapeutic in its systematic focus on the behavioral and social needs of students. A therapeutic academic curriculum…

A study examined effects of class-wide curricular modification on the engagement and behaviors of six students (ages 13-14) with emotional disturbances, in a self-contained science class. Modifications included providing opportunities for choice making and ensuring activities were of high interest, which resulted in increased engagement and…

Thirteen papers were selected from presentations made at a 1985 multidisciplinary conference on programing for adolescents with behavior disorders. The following papers are included: "Adolescent Needs and Behavior in the Schools: Current and Historical Perspectives" (S. Braaten); "Programs for Adolescents: What Works and Why?" (J. Lipsitz);…

This book presents 17 papers from a 1982 national multidisciplinary conference on services for behaviorally disordered adolescents. The following papers are included: "Programming for Youth in Secondary Schools and the Community," (W. Van Til); "Who's Crazy? II" (C. Michael Nelson); "Correlates of Successful Adaptive Behavior: Comparative Studies…

The paper describes the efforts of five school districts, five private agencies, and an area vocational-technical school to meet the vocational needs of learning and behaviorally disabled students. The consortium developed a four-phase plan to meet these students' needs: (1) cooperation to set up school-based vocational evaluation services; (2)…

To prevent the high-risk populations of learning disabled/behavior disordered (LD/BD) and educable mentally handicapped (EMH) students from developing substance abuse problems, these students must be educated with materials that are directed specifically at their social and mental levels. Project Oz, a social service agency in McLean County,…