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Child Center of Our Lady of Grace, St. Louis, MO. – 1980
The document contains policies and guidelines for the Child Center of Our Lady of Grace, a facility offering psychiatric evaluation and treatment for children (ages 4 to 17) in the St. Louis (Missouri and Illinois) region. After a brief statement of program rationale and an introduction to the program, services and policies are described.…
Descriptors: Day Programs, Emotional Disturbances, Guidelines, Position Papers
Bautsch, John E. – 1979
The paper describes the background and development of The Residential Facilities Worker Training Program, a 2-year degree program at Seattle Community College (Washington) to train staff persons to work in community based residential settings with developmentally disabled children, adolescents, and adults. Need for the program is discussed,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Higher Education
MCANDREW, GORDON L.
THE NORTH CAROLINA ADVANCEMENT SCHOOL, A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL FOR UNDERACHIEVING EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF AVERAGE OR ABOVE AVERAGE POTENTIAL, TRIES TO CORRECT EDUCATIONAL DEFICIENCIES, TO EQUIP STUDENTS WITH SKILLS AND ATTITUDES NEEDED TO APPRAISE THEMSELVES, AND TO JUDGE THEIR CHANCES FOR FUTURE SCHOOLING AND OCCUPATIONAL SUCCESS. ANOTHER AIM IS TO…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Elementary Education, Newsletters, Residential Programs
Chafel, James; Charney, Jill – 1980
To meet the needs of adolescents on adult wards of the Massachusetts State Hospitals and inpatient community mental health centers, and to carry out the educational mandates of Chapter 766 and P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act), the State Hospital Education Programs (SHEP) system was developed. SHEP adheres to three basic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Delivery Systems, Emotional Disturbances
Download full textNational Univ. Extension Association, Minneapolis, Minn. – 1967
Listed are the names of member institutions of the National University Extension Association, directors, committees, delegates, special appointees (1966-1967), board of directors (1967-1968), and committees and sections (1967-68). Included also are the reports of divisions and committees. In one address, the work of the Kellogg Foundation is…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Development, Extension Education, Foundation Programs
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1976
The 35 articles represent presentations made during a conference on improving services to deaf-blind/multihandicapped individuals in residential facilities. Among entries are the following titles and authors: "Federal Thrust of Deaf-Blind Multihandicapped Funding" (J. Franklin); "Prevocational Training for Deaf-Blind (A Research Endeavor)" (J.…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Deaf Blind, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Disabilities
Boyan, Craig – 1978
The paper presents the community-based satellite system as a residential and program model to effect deinstitutionalization of mentally retarded young adults in urban centers worldwide. The system is reported to consist of a large, central educational facility surrounded by a series of small houses and apartment units (satellites). Benefits of…
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Demonstration Programs, Group Homes, Mental Retardation
Montgomery, Jacqueline; McBurney, Raymond D. – 1970
Described is an Operant Conditioning-Token Economy Program, teaching patients to be responsible for their own behavior, to make choices, and to be motivated to change. The program was instigated with mentally ill patients in a state hospital and was later used with institutionalized mentally handicapped groups. After two years, only four of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Goveia, Leonard H.; Tutko, Thomas A. – 1969
A research project was designed to compare the therapeutic effectiveness of treatment in a state hospital with treatment in a supportive, residential halfway-house facility involving patients in the acute initial stages of a psychiatric episode. Psychological tests were administered to randomly assigned patients at admission to the two facilities,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Emotional Disturbances, Experimental Psychology, Psychiatric Hospitals
Educational Management Services, Inc., New Brighton, Minn. – 1970
The study was undertaken to provide management and program development services for the relocation of the pupils attending a residential school for educable mentally handicapped. The stated goal of the new center (Minnesota Learning Center) is the preparation of residents to assume a community living role independent of the institution. Four…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Residential Programs
Graebner, Oliver E.; And Others – 1970
Eight papers report on the project at Austin State School, funded by a Hospital Improvement (HIP) grant, which used a multidisciplinary team to implement socialization programs for institutionalized mildly retarded persons exhibiting socially inept behavior. Two papers consider social rehabilitation and the task of trying to move residents out…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Pittsburgh Univ., PA. Dept. of Special Education and Rehabilitation. – 1971
Described is the development and field testing of a set of simulation training materials, the Shannon Materials, to train management personnel of residential institutions for the mentally retarded. Defined and discussed is simulation as a training method. The materials are described as including slide-tape presentations of a real community and a…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Exceptional Child Education, Instructional Materials
Roos, Philip – 1976
The author begins with a discussion of definitions of mental retardation, early developments in the care of the mentally retarded, trends in the institutional population, and the disillusionment and dissatisfaction being expressed by professionals, consumer groups, and interested citizens. The detrimental effects of institutionalization documented…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Schools, Mental Retardation
Harding, Gene; Houser, Schuyler – Interface Journal, 1974
Three short papers on the Centennial Education Program of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in existence since 1969 as a residential cluster college for about 200 undergraduates registered for a 6-semester-hour block of problem-centered, experiential learning, usually interdisciplinary. Focus is on the problems and roles of faculty in this…
Descriptors: Cluster Colleges, Higher Education, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Mayers, Friedericka – New Outlook for the Blind, 1976
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Practicums, Professional Education, Program Descriptions
