Two speeches on residential adult education were given on the occasion of the dedication of The Continuing Education Center at Rutgers University on June 1, 1970. After a brief review of the development of residential education, the first speech discussed the challenges presented to those responsible for the functions to be planned for the…

The handbook is written for graduate students participating in the Wayne State University Fairlawn Center Cooperative Psycho-Educational Training Program for Teachers of the Emotionally Disturbed. The material is intended as an orientation to the scope of the total program of Fairlawn Center (Pontiac State Hospital, Child Psychiatry Division),…

This manual is designed to provide a review of the Residential Youth Center (RYC) program. In 1968, the Department of Labor funded the Training and Research Institute for Residential Youth Centers, Inc. (TRI-RYC) which attempts to improve the quality of life in the urban community. Such centers use a model that includes the following components:…

The directory lists approximately 120 library information service programs in residential facilities for the mentally retarded. Each program is described in terms of its collection (journals, books, films, and tapes), space, services (story hours, reference questions, bibliographies, and translation services), budget, clientele, and program…

The fourth in a series of four booklets on residential programing for mentally retarded persons aims at providing parents with basic information on the operational aspects of institutions so that they can form realistic strategies for implementing change. Negative attitudes of direct care, professional, and administrative staff toward innovative…

Presented is an evaluation of a program designed to provide individualized instruction for 28 seriously emotionally disturbed students in a residential psychiatric program in New York City. Findings are reported to indicate that the program met its objectives in producing significant growth in both reading and math achievement, and additionally…

In this article on state-organized programs to reduce rates of juvenile delinquency, programs such as truancy prevention, day treatment, specialized foster care for emotionally disturbed, handicapped, and/or mentally retarded children, community resources projects, and residential treatment are briefly described. (Author/SE)

In 1836, a young Swiss physician, Johann Jacob Guggenbuhl, introduced a residential setting for a handicapped child and attempted to develop a well-designed program and philosophy for the local retarded population. Some of the same problems that he faced are still being discussed. Here the costs of such programs are considered in terms finance,…

Described is a system for providing comprehensive community residential living for the developmentally disabled. (Author/CL)

The historical background and early contributions of the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, the first psychiatric hospital for children in the United States, are described; with emphasis on the incorporation of the treatment modality of behavior modification into this traditional psychoanalytically oriented program. (Author/SBH)

The five responses to a nationwide study of public mental retardation/developmental disabilities spending in the states focus on such aspects as needed data for policy choices, classification decisions in the original study, the need for policy research, the need to reform Medicaid, and values in the funding of social services. (DB)

The study of individuals (N=104) providing family care homes for mentally retarded residents found that amount of social support best predicted stress and perceptions of competence, that the presence of a handicapped person in the provider's family best predicted self-perception of competence, and that home provider age best predicted depression.…

A review of research on the role of social competence in the community adjustment of developmentally disabled persons indicates that facilitation of such adjustment should focus on remediation of maladaptive behavior, instruction in social skills and behavioral competencies, assessment before placement in the community, and continued on-site…