The Public Schools of Brookline, Massachusetts are operating a pilot program to assist families during the first five years of a child's life. The multidisciplinary program, entitled the Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP), aims to help each child obtain optimal physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. The program begins at…

Most of this conference report is made up of papers presented on miscellaneous campus safety topics: two papers titled "Handicapped on Campus," by Charles Wingstrom and by Joseph F. Kuchta, Sal Mazzata, and Charles A. Cofield; "Radiation Hazards and Control" by Howard Browne; "Safety in the 70's" by Harold E. O'Shell;…

On the basis of a survey of the literature pertaining to the special education and guidance needs of the handicapped, a survey of existing programs at 47 California Community Colleges, the proceedings of advisory committee meetings, interviews with counselors, college health services staff, and representatives from community agencies working with…

The problem of variability of data, even in presumable homogeneous subgroupings of handicapped children, which contaminates the results of many special education curriculum evaluation studies is examined with a study of 103 second-grade learning disabled students. The distortion of statistics calculated on samples of extreme variability; coupled…

This selected bibliography contains sources relevant to the general interests and specific needs of persons concerned with language and its disorders, especially specific language disability or ineptitude in learning the basic skills of language, such as dyslexia. The list was prepared first for students in language re-education at Hood College…

The Instructional Model Program for All Children and Teachers (IMPACT) in Berrien County, Michigan, has a dual purpose of training teachers and providing aid to handicapped students through regular class placement, or mainstreaming. The goal of the project is to develop and implement a flexible instructional model by training teachers in the use…

Presented is a three-part paper on a project to train teachers to work with severely behaviorally disordered (SBD) or autistic-like children. In the section on the state school system and needs, J. Heskett covers such topics as characteristics of the SBD child, local education agencies participation in the SBD project, and future expansion of SBD…

Presented are four papers on Project PACE (Parent Action in Childhood Education), a homebound early childhood program designed to demonstrate the value of early education for developmentally delayed children (birth to 6 years old). In the first paper (by J. Becker) an historical perspective of the project and a brief description of the community…

This book contains a collection of 33 articles considered to be the outstanding contributions to the field of child psychiatry in 1975. In general, the articles are of two types: original works that hold promise of making a contribution to progress in the study of the child, or review articles which present a clear, thoughtful, and systematic…

Approximately 400 learning disabled (LD) junior high school students in eight schools were provided identification, diagnosis, and intervention services during 2 years of a program based on meeting students' needs for special help, mainstream success, and parental understanding. Program objectives included significant gains in language…

Three objectives of research reported here were to describe the neural organization underlying language usage and language loss, to study activities occurring in both cerebral hemispheres, and to study neural changes related to changes in syntactic complexity of stimuli. A dichoptic procedure was chosen. A subject faced a viewing screen on which…

Programed training filmstrips from Project LIFE (Language Instruction to Facilitate Education) were used with 114 hearing impaired children and 15 normal hearing language impaired children (4- to 13-years old) to assess the effects of auditory supplementation and a token reinforcement program on language learning and to investigate retention and…

This study examines educational programs, supported by the Indiana State Board for Vocational and Technical Education, for the disadvantaged and makes recommendations regarding future education for professional personnel involved in such programs. Results suggest that local communities in Indiana show a great variety of approaches in meeting the…

The report describes the results of a study of the employment of Vietnam-era veterans with service-connected disabilities, their major problems in seeking and holding a job, and possible solutions. Data were obtained from; mail surveys of both disabled veterans and employers regarding employment; personal interviews with veterans and employers;…

To perform a complete and useful evaluation of the impact of federal funding, under Titles I, II, and IV of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), on public library services to the disadvantaged, handicapped, and institutionalized, two convergent lines of study were undertaken: the study of project plans and achievements and the study…