Presented is an instructional guide for parents of severely and profoundly retarded and multiply handicapped children. Developed by 20 graduate students during a summer institute at Duquesne University, the guide suggests activities in communication, self-help and physical development. An introduction provides a definition of the severely involved…

Presented as the outcome of a summer institute involving 30 graduate students are case histories and educational prescriptions for 34 low functioning severely handicapped individuals ages 2 to 26 years. The case histories provide information on identification, reports of previous evaluations, other contacts and assessment of present functioning…

Preschool readiness measures were secured on 50 pairs of disadvantaged 2- to 3-year-old lower SES white children who represented large and small families, to determine the impact of family size on readiness profiles. The findings reveal that children from small families secured higher scores on all nine skill areas of the Iowa Test of Preschool…

A riveting operation was presented to 90 Grade 7 industrial arts students through the use of a slide-tape program to compare the amount of transfer from three learning tasks to a transfer task and to ascertain the effect of different amounts of practice on transfer. The students were randomly selected and alternately placed into nine groups. The…

This interim report is part of a longitudinal study of developmental behavior designed to determine whether infants from culturally disadvantaged homes have different developmental patterns than infants from advantaged homes. Twenty six culturally disadvantaged infants were individually evaluated on the Bayley Scale of Infant Mental and Motor…

Perceptual motor activities for physically handicapped children are presented in the areas of fine and gross motor skills. Also detailed are activities to develop body image, visual motor skills, and tactile and auditory perception. (JD)

GRADES OR AGES: Not specified. It appears to be for preschool and primary grades. SUBJECT MATTER: Motor skills, sensory experiences, thinking, and language. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into four sections, one for each of the above areas. Each section lists materials and describes activities; illustrations are…

A motor performance typology of boys and girls (ages 6-10 years) was developed, based on four factors extracted by factor analysis from data on 47 physical growth and motor performance variables. Nineteen variables which best described the four factor-defined components were used in formulating the person-clusters (typologies) following Tryon's…

The goals of the HOPE (Health and Optimum Physical Education) project are described in this document as follows: to design and field test a model program in elementary physical education that would measurably improve children in fitness, motor skills, and knowledge and understanding of physical education and would contribute to improvement in…

An evaluation was conducted on the effectiveness of classroom services authorized by 1969 Oregon legislation and provided to trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children between 4 and 21 years of age. During the 1969-70 school year, services were provided to 483 TMR children in 15 different projects administered by the Mental Health Division and 14…

The assessment battery is intended to establish the mentally retarded child's highest level of performance in each activity as a prerequisite to and planning aid for the development of an occupational therapy-based home training program designed to stimulate the child to operate at maximum ability levels. The battery, with a graduated rating…

The primary purpose of this study was to test the implication that perceptual-motor development training will increase school readiness at the kindergarten level. Sixty kindergarten children were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups and administered the following pretests: Stanford Early School Achievement Test, Boehm Test of Basic…

Based on the actions of the child as a learner from infancy on, this paper is a working copy intended for inclusion in a forthcoming curriculum manual, to be published in 1972. Detailed lists include: 1. Action and Learning Throughout Life; 2. Action in the Preschool Classroom; and 3. Questions and Answers About Action. It concludes with a…

The learning wall system, which consists primarily of a special wall used instead of a screen for a variety of projection purposes, is described, shown diagrammatically, and pictured. Designed to provide visual perceptual motor training on a level that would fall between gross and fine motor performance for perceptually handicapped children, the…

Reported was a program designed to explore the remediation of motor problems among minimally brain damaged children. In an initial testing session the children were exposed to a six category test of gross motor functioning, the first part of the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception, a self concept test, a games choice test, and other…