THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO DEVELOP A GENERAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR LIFE HISTORY ITEMS, (2) TO DETERMINE TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY ESTIMATES, AND (3) TO ESTIMATE RESISTANCE TO EXAMINEE FAKING, FOR REPRESENTATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL QUESTIONNAIRES. TWO 100-ITEM QUESTIONNAIRES WERE CONSTRUCTED THROUGH RANDOM ASSIGNMENT BY CONTENT AREA OF 200…

The discussion of educating handicapped children without special classes emphasizes the importance of looking at the educational process in socio-psychological terms. Referred to are some of the unsuccessful results of segregating students, such as achievement of similar or smaller academic gains, perpetuation of much of the mild mental…

A study was made to establish baseline statistics on vocational placement with 1,139 handicapped adults, who were discharged from vocational training at the Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Center. (DLS)

Sponsored by the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Phoenix, Arizona, the program places American Indian adoptees with their natural extended families or with families of the same tribe. Personal contacts, publicity, and national child welfare organizations help locate homes. Ensuring the child's tribal inheritance rights is yet to be…

A security force at Moorhead State University is fully staffed by students. With money saved on administrative costs, the university has been able to increase its security services. (Author/MLF)

Describes the employers participating in a large university co-op program. Provides information about the interaction of certain employer characteristics with aspects of their co-op participation, based upon a survey of all employers of co-op students at the University of Waterloo. (JOW)

Physical educators, it is argued, should allow students who possess knowledge, understanding, and performance ability to demonstrate their competency and receive credit equivalent to that received by students who pass the course. Discussed are rationales, advantages, negative aspects, and concerns regarding implementation of equivalency programs.…

The position statement of the Board of Trustees of the Council for Learning Disabilities opposes the inclusion of nonhandicapped low achievers and underachievers in learning disability programs and recommends that these students be served within the regular education program. (DB)

Calculated Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) factor deviation quotients (DQ) for Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization, and Freedom From Distractibility. DQs were then compared to the Adaptive Behavior Scale. Results indicated Community Self-Sufficiency and the Comparison Score were significant. Verbal scores were…

A national demonstration project, Training and Placement Service, has placed more than 6,500 people with epilepsy in jobs. The approach features support by local affiliates of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, job preparation, technical training, and employer cooperation. (CL)

Presents a case study which illustrates the difficulties surrounding the diagnosis and placement of autistic children. Demonstrates the importance of independent mediation and professional assessment and examines free appropriate public education in the context of Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District vs. Rowley (1982).…

The article explains the usefulness of PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) in streamlining exceptional student referral processes. With PERT, realistic time and personnel needs can be established, and the status of every referral can be known at all times. The initial step in PERT breaks the process into small manageable units and…

Aberrant behavior is viewed from a pragmatic (communicative function) approach, and three types of pragmatically oriented interventions are discussed: (1) teaching alternative communicative behavior, (2) teaching other functionally related alternative responses, and (3) manipulating antecedent conditions. An assessment strategy for forming…

The article extends the concept of hierarchy of services and least restrictive environment to gifted students. A modified hierarchy conceives of increases in services from restrictive (regular class) settings to nonrestrictive (special classes and schools) ones. (CL)