The successes of six handicapped adults are related; the incidence of disability and the problems of employment are presented. Methods of organizing to promote job opportunities are explained, and the following major projects for volunteer committees are reviewed in terms of the current state of affairs and what can be done: projects on…

Information is provided concerning special education throughout Texas, the relationship of special education to other programs in the state for handicapped persons, services for handicapped persons, and the division of special education and its functioning. A field study is provided in which teachers, supervisors, and administrators of special…

Contained in the text are four readings on mental health and the schools, five on childrens' problems in developing, five on social and emotional aspects of educational adjustment, five on cognitive development and mental health, and five on group aspects of classroom functioning. Six articles concern students with special needs, five discuss…

Contained in this source book are discussions of institute offerings in literature, composition, and language and suggestions for institute planning. Six articles deal with the nature and purposes of children's literature study, an introduction to literary criticism, reviews of and teaching approaches for various genres of children's literature,…

Project goals of the Educational Diagnostic and Planning Center were to diagnose academic and behavioral difficulties in their early stages; to design, implement, and improve individualized programs for students with such difficulties; and to establish small halfway classes as a means of gradual reentry to the regular classroom. Further goals…

Under Kentucky's Foundation Program Law of 1954 as amended, which provides for classroom units for exceptional children, the number of such units has increased from 99.3 to 29 districts in the Program's first year to 1,060 in 148 of the state's 193 districts in 1969-70. Units for the mentally retarded increased most, from 22.5 to 732.3, in 130…

Chester County (Pennsylvania) is described in terms of its demography and its school system; its special education program is also reviewed. Placement and program organization are outlined for the trainable mentally retarded, brain injured, socially and emotionally disturbed, and physically, visually, or auditorially handicapped. The need for…

This study attempted to develop a valid instrument for the assessment of attitudes in kindergarten children and to evaluate two potential curriculum procedures for facilitating attitude growth. One experimental treatment evolved from role-theory and emphasized perceptual awareness and the ability to put oneself in the place of another; the other…

This report is the final one in a trilogy stemming from the 1968 Summer Reading Institute in the Washington Model School Division. The Institute was designed to meet the needs of elementary school teachers in their attempts to teach language skills and reading to students in grades K-3. This follow-up study examines the results of the Summer…

A description of the Kramer Project to improve the general welfare of children and families is given. The purpose of the project is to provide age-appropriate developmental guidance from early infancy through the end of childhood years. The school, located in the heart of Little Rock, Ark., provides an educational program for children from infancy…

The guidelines presented in this document aim toward carrying out Pennsylvania's responsibility to educate non-English-speaking children within its borders as efficiently and satisfactorily as possible. Remarks describe the rationale for the problem and provide ideas on funding, relevant educational legislation, classifications for varying…

The Mesa School District (Arizona) "Incentives Only" Project--carried out via a performance contract with the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity in 1970-71 through the Mesa Education Association (MEA)--is described in terms of rationale for the use of incentives, background, program procedures, the incentives model, the delivery system,…

The purpose of this study was to improve the English competence of Spanish-speaking students, to increase their success in school, and to help them develop stronger self-concepts. Control and experimental groups of students were selected from kindergarten, second, and fourth grades of elementary schools with a predominantly Chicano population.…

INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN THIS BOOKLET ABOUT THE CRIPPLED AND HEALTH IMPAIRED, SPEECH IMPAIRED, HEARING IMPAIRED, DEAF, BLIND, PARTIALLY SEEING, EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED AND SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED, EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, TRAINABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, MULTIPLE HANDICAPPED, AND GIFTED. FOR EACH EXCEPTIONALITY, A DEFINITION, INCIDENCE FIGURES,…

This survey, representing a wide spectrum of teaching strategies and educational outlooks, is the result of a number of requests to the National Program on Early Childhood Education (NPECE) for a concise description of a variety of tested programs for young children that can be installed by local communities. A requirement of these programs was…