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Berkan, William – Bureau Memorandum, 1975
Described is Wisconsin's boarding home program for seven deaf-blind children. (CL)
Descriptors: Boarding Homes, Child Care, Deaf Blind, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedMaier, Henry W. – Child Welfare, 1975
A discussion of the interpersonal and organizational underpinnings of group living and residential care for children. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Group Experience
Abrams, Jules C – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Delinquency, Juvenile Gangs, Language Experience Approach, Reading Achievement
Berkan, William A. – 1976
The manual specifies policies and procedures for implementing Wisconsin's boarding home programs, in which handicapped children live during the week in a home close to appropriate special education classes and return to their own homes on the weekend. Covered are guidelines for the following aspects: legal basis for the program, referral…
Descriptors: Boarding Homes, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children, Parent Role
Download full textGoldman, Freda, H., Ed. – 1962
The existence and achievements of experimental, university-connected programs of liberal study for labor are discussed. First to be considered are the underlying problems and aims of both labor education and university liberal education. Next, specific programs are described: the Liberal Arts for Labor program offered through the Extension…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Objectives, Experimental Programs, Extension Education
Guthrie, Robert V.; And Others – 1968
A study was made to test the feasibility of a small college (located some distance from a city) establishing a residence unit within a slum or transitional area of a city. The purposes of such a program, in which students and faculty live in the city while continuing their normal course work, would be to: (1) enhance the curriculum by broadening…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Services, Curriculum Enrichment, Facility Improvement
Flores, T. R. – 1973
The study sought to document how the National Institute of Education sponsored Mountain-Plains Career Education Model Four (CEM4) is improving on the advancing the family residential approach. This was accomplished by comparing aspects of the seven programs by way of: (1) a collection and review of available literature and reports, (2) site…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Programs, Facilities Management, Family Programs
Frantzreb, Arthur C.; Marcus, Melvin M. – 1972
A trustee-in-residence plan is proposed as a possible solution to the problem expressed by governing board members who feel they rarely have the opportunity to develop any real knowledge about their institutions. The plan calls for establishment of a permanent, rotating residency program to permit really interested members to spend most or all of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Athletics, College Administration, College Environment
McKinnon, Rachel; And Others – 1970
A follow up study of graduates from a vocational rehabilitation program, in a residential training center for the mentally handicapped, was conducted. Characteristics of the students, economic benefits, changes in level of functioning, need for additional services, student attitudes toward the in-hospital program, and parental attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, Institutionalized Persons
Baumeister, Alfred A., Ed.; Butterfield, Earl, Ed. – 1970
The handbook on residential institutions, for professionals and students in the field of mental retardation, attempts to interpret the institution as a part of the culture which it serves, avoiding emotional responses but suggesting formulas for change. Characteristics of contemporary institutions for the mentally retarded are examined and…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Institutional Administration, Institutional Environment, Institutional Personnel
Bricker, George W. – 1970
This 1971 Supplement updates the 1970 edition of Bricker's Directory (see ED 034 945); used with the 1970 edition, it provides pertinent information about the programs and an objective description of their content and conduct. During the last year, three programs have been discontinued and one new one will begin in 1971. The pages of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Directories, Extension Education, Facilities
Fewell, Windell W. – 1973
Presented is the final report of a 3-year (1970-1973) project, funded by Title III, to develop a model instructional and training program with 10 (five each year) 6- to 8-year-old, multiply handicapped, deaf children at the Indiana School for the Deaf. Described are use of a separate building at the school, experimental summer programs 1969-1972…
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Demonstration Programs, Exceptional Child Education
Eklund, Lowell R.; McNeil, Donald R. – 1970
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…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Conferences, Continuing Education Centers
Pontiac State Hospital, MI. – 1970
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),…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Services, Graduate Study
Training and Research Inst. for Residential Youth Centers, Inc., New Haven, CT. – 1971
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:…
Descriptors: Guides, Labor Force Development, Models, Program Descriptions
