New York State's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) now serve approximately 30,000 handicapped children, whose disabilities range from mild to severe. BOCES provide shared services to two or more member school districts that initiate the request when one or the other is unable to provide such services economically or efficiently…

The post-World War II rehabilitation of large numbers of psychologically deprived and socially maladjusted teenaged war orphans and/or concentration camp victims in Israel was carried out within normal group structures. (Author)

Contends that a New York "voucher plan," intended to serve more children in need of special services, is being abused. (Author)

Describes how a special needs team helps borderline children--those who have exhibited a weakness in certain areas but whose weakness is not serious enough to qualify them as children with special needs. (Author/JF)

A model of functional levels in diagnosis and intervention designed to return handicapped children to the mainstream. (Author)

The Special Teaching Unit of the Bank Street College of Education in New York City initiated a graduate program that emphasizes interaction between teacher-trainee and pupil. (JF)

Quest is a seven-year-old course that can be incorporated into the regular secondary school program to teach students how to relate to others and handle real-life problems. Parents are encouraged to become active in the program and in the total education of their children. (Author/WD)

Sophisticated techniques are rapidly replacing the crude adaptations of "normal" programs in curriculum, remediation, and learning environment design. (Author)

Describes a school that emphasizes short-term goals to help achieve self-confidence. The adolescent program includes four interconnecting parts: the academic classroom; home economics; industrial arts; and an evening program of art, music, guidance, and physical education. (Author/JF)

Describes a center--a highly developed play space--to teach sensory concepts (up, down, in, out, above, below, sweet, sour, hot, cold, loud, soft, and others) to blind children. (Author/JF)

Through the use of such support services as interpreting, note-taking, and tutors, deaf college students at California State University at Northridge compete with 25,000 hearing peers in an urban, liberal arts university setting. (Author)

A three-hour block of uninterrupted time each morning for the teaching of core subjects has allowed this elementary school to reduce class size, increase the time teachers spend with individual students, increase time on task, increase parent and teacher expectations of students, and improve student/teacher relationships. (DCS)

Presents findings of a case study of three New York City high schools conducted in 1980 to determine the effects of retrenchment. Focuses on six areas: instruction, programs, support services, facilities, equipment and supplies, and extracurricular activities. (WD)