This curriculum resource guide on health oriented personal services is one of a series of seventeen specialized curriculum guides for occupational education for the marginal, handicapped, or special needs occupational education student. The guide begins with six behavior clusters that contain a series of forty-two instructional topics designed to…

Laboratory method defines empathy colloquially as the ability "to get into another person's shoes," yet very often, empathy training concentrates only on understanding another's feelings. Empathy training should go beyond the ability to understand feelings. Kenepathy is a term which has been coined to broaden the accepted application of…

FOR UNITS IN (1) SELF CARE AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, (2) GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS, (3) HOW TO GET AND KEEP A JOB, (4) MONEY, AND (5) SAFETY. THE GUIDE LISTS POSSIBLE DEMONSTRATIONS, DISCUSSION TOPICS, FILMS, AND FIELD TRIPS FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED YOUTH AGED 15 TO 21 YEARS. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS SIX ITEMS. (JW)

A Teacher Corps project at the University of Southern Maine College of Education consisted of a competency-based teacher education program including components in special education, human relations, reading, and language development. The responses of 24 former participants indicate the impact of the program on the participants, their work, in the…

This curriculum guide is one of three documents developed in a community college project to meet the career and vocational needs of disadvantaged handicapped youth (mainly the learning disabled, the educable mentally handicapped, and the emotionally handicapped) by assisting them to gain and retain full-time, non-subsidized employment. The…

The paper reviews the interaction between a young child and the school environment in the development of emotional and behavior problems. Research on empathy development, the impact of the teacher-child relationship, and effects on self concept of social relationships with peers are considered. The origin and achievements of the Child and Family…

Home economics professionals were surveyed to determine the communication competencies necessary for the completion of their tasks. The most highly rated of the 13 competencies listed by the subjects were the abilities to converse in professional situations, to use other oral processes (argument, complaint, opinion, persuasion, questioning), and…

Competency based modules are presented for educating paraprofessionals to work with severely and multiply handicapped persons. Objectives, suggested learning activities, and performance criteria are listed for six modules (sample subtopics in parentheses): human growth and development (prenatal influences); orientation to disability and…

Elementary teachers read vignettes depicting incidents involving (fictional) students who presented chronic behavior problems, and then told how they would respond if the incidents occurred in their classrooms. Responses were coded for attributions about the students and about the teacher's roles in causing and remediating the problem. Teachers…

This booklet along with six others comprises a curriculum guide developed for adult education supervisors and teachers of undereducated workers or job seekers whose inability to develop the skills and obtain the knowledge necessary to meet the requirements of the working world are primarily due to a lack of competence in reading and math skills.…

The looseleaf binder reports on the Educational Resource Centers (ERC) model program in Jackson County, Oregon, which fosters the mainstreaming of mildly handicapped elementary and secondary students (including learning disabled, educable mentally handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and physically handicapped). The ERC provides academic and social…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: curricula in biomedical communications; communication skill development in student teachers; the status of communication education in Ohio; students' perceived ability to communicate…

Based on a 1978 workshop at the University of Wisconsin, the book discusses the use of art, music, and literature in the habilitation of young handicapped children, and presents specific art, music, and literature activities for use with such children. The first half of the book consists of workshop background and presentations, and addresses such…

An educational framework for the future should be based on an understanding of the nature of future society and reflect approaches significant to harmonious survival. The framework should include the concepts of change, conscious awareness, and cooperation. Concepts of change emphasize environmental change and change in personal behavior. The…

The Speech Communication Association's National Project on Speech Communication Competencies yielded a developmental perspective of functional communication, from which implications for lifelong learning can be derived. The project resulted in the following contributions: a definition of communication competence; a description of the child as a…