To modify behavior and teach basic skills and subject matter, 16 emotionally disturbed deaf boys were involved in a pilot project to enable them to return to regular classes. The program featured a small staff-pupil ratio, application of behavior modification techniques, engineered instruction, individualized self-instructional curriculum…

Eight discussions of parent participation cover the following areas: dimensions of family involvement in early childhood education; the relationship of the parent, child, and professional staff; parent reactions to the identification of handicaps and their involvement in early education; parent participation in a program of behavior modification…

Examples of innovative programs for the disadvantaged and minority groups include a demonstration program in guidance and counseling and one in cultural arts. These programs are elements in a three-year demonstration program sponsored by Project Upper Cumberland. A cultural art evaluation and a guidance school program evaluation are presented.…

Presented in the second of a two volume series is a language training program for developmentally delayed children from infancy to development of grammatically appropriate sentences. The second volume is said to have been developed in the Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Research and Intervention Project (Tennessee) and to focus on training the…

Reported are the effects of a structured inservice human relations training program on teacher coping behaviors in response to student misbehaviors. Sixty teachers from Title One elementary, junior, and senior level schools were randomly assigned to three experimental and three control groups. Changes in coping behavior were assessed by three…

Four conference papers focus on aspects of administration in special education (SE) for handicapped children. Contrasted are formal with informal organizational structure, and examined are communication lines in a special education division to point out human divergence from formal bureaucratic to actual structure, and to show how a formal change…

A wide range of successful behavior modification programs, geared toward improving the status of individuals with problems in personal and social adjustment, are examined in this book. The authors of the 16 chapters are psychologists and mental health coordinators. The book is comprised of five sections. Section I is an overview of the programs…

This book has been designed to elaborate on what interviewing is in its basic forms and how these various forms can be utilized by the operating supervisor. Its intent is to develop, in simple language, the techniques of successful interviewing. Illustrations of real interviews are presented and the supervisor is encouraged to use role playing as…

This document supports the position that programing encompasses all of the planned and coordinated educational activities of professional staff members, volunteer leaders, and the actual learners in designing and effecting educational strategies that should culminate in desirable changes in the patterned behavior of people and the alteration of…

The study analyzed the process of diffusion as it functions in regard to changes in nursing practice in a selected segment of Canadian hospitals. Three aspects of diffusion were investigated: (1) the flow of new information in nursing through a newwork of hospitals; (2) factors affecting the adoption of new nursing practices; and (3) factors…

In this introductory text to the field of attitude change, the emphasis is on one of the end products of research in social psychology--manipulation and control of attitudes and related behaviors. The text first defines the concept of attitude, then identifies ideas from the areas of history, literature, law, religion, and the social sciences that…

While the Hill Interaction Matrix was developed as a research instrument to assess interview process, it is also generally useful in any undertaking requiring the evaluation of verbal interaction and, hence, can be used as an aid in modifying communication in order to increase its therapeutic effect. The Hill Interaction Matrix with accompanying…

This study compares effects of an early childhood instructional program--designed to develop auditory and visual perception skills by stressing differential diagnosis, prescriptive suggestions and concomitant procedures--with programs typically found in nursery schools. Treatment group consisted of twelve paired on intelligence, auditory and…

The Rehabilitation Research Foundation (RRF) proposes to conduct, under supervision of the State Department of Vocational Education, a Manpower Training Program for Prisoners (MTPP) at Draper Correctional Center, Elmore, Alabama. The project is proposed for 13 months. The proposal contains several innovative and experimental features, the most…

Conducted in four villages situated near Tarnow, a large urban and industrial centre, this study examined the process of change in the functioning of the rural family, as set against the transformation of their general living conditions brought about by the socialist industrialization and urbanization in post-war Poland. Issues studied were:…