To train blind persons in the use of the long cane mobility technique and to reach a variety of clients, a demonstration used the trainee's home as a base of operation. Of 198 referrals during the 3-year project, 61 persons started training and 42 persons between the ages of 12 and 92 successfully completed the instruction. Trainees began to learn…

Federal programs for the handicapped are listed by agency and activity. Information concerning the nature and purpose of programs, eligibility for and methods of application, printed information available, and authorizing legislation is presented for 68 programs in these fields: basic and supportive services, research and demonstration,…

A pilot study was conducted to demonstrate the use of dance as a method for improving and extending curriculum content of world cultures in elementary schools. The secondary objectives emphasized nonverbal experience as a means of interpreting the patterns of cultural values in West and Central Africa. Most of the 41 presentations of the dance…

To assess the effects of specialized retraining of cognitive, perceptual, and motor (CPM) deficits, a battery of tests was prepared and used with 200 behaviorally maladjusted and 200 problem-free children. The composite score indicated that 40% of the maladjusted group manifested major dysfunction whereas none of the problem-free group…

This summer institute was designed to upgrade teacher educators in business education departments of urban universities and state colleges. Specific purposes were to increase their knowledge of culturally different youth and programs for these youth, and to provide an opportunity for them to develop and implement teaching units for such programs.…

Training state vocational education staff to generate and utilize labor market data was the purpose of this project. The objectives were to develop the capability to generate and integrate into a management information system labor market supply and demand data compatible with vocational education taxonomies; to train selected staff to perform the…

Presented is a collection of 11 papers from a national training institute for special education administrators and others which focused on the major provisions of Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act). Papers are divided into three sections: perspectives from Congress and U.S. Office of Education, review and discussion of…

Designed to provide information for local school district personnel in the state of Washington, this Community Resource Trainer (CRT) manual is the product of those school district administrators and coordinators who piloted the CRT Program in three small, rurally isolated high schools between the 1972-73 and 1973-74 school years. Illustrating the…

Based upon the data collected in this research into the effectiveness of the consortium approach to preservice teacher education, such an approach does not seem to offer any special advantages in the acquisition of teaching skills, but did seem to have some positive attitudinal effects and certain benefits for each consortium participant not to be…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of 14 terminal objectives for high school custodial service and building maintenance course (the third year of a 3-year program). The materials were developed for a 36-week course (3 hours daily) designed to prepare 12th graders with entry level…

To assess the attitude of high school students toward travel away from their home school for vocational training, a two-part study was conducted. The objective of the first part was to determine the number of students in the State of Washington who actually traveled away from their home schools for vocational training and of the second part to…

To develop a model for local school districts to use in vocational education planning and development in Ohio, this project utilized the following strategies: develop a set of planning documents and instructions consistent with the state plan format; develop simulation materials which provide the necessary information for instructing local…

The bulletin presents data taken in the fall of 1973 for the National Center for Educational Statistics' National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. The study surveyed approximately 22,000 high school seniors in 1,200 schools in the spring of 1972. Sixty-two percent of vocational-technical, 24 percent of general education, and 12…

Tattletooth was designed to help alleviate the physical, psychological and social problems associated with dental disease by teaching proper dental hygiene techniques and by stressing the importance of good dental health to the social and psychological well-being of the whole person. The program provided for the entire community with the provision…

Research which resulted in the development of the Specific Aptitude Test Battery for use in selecting inexperienced or untrained individuals for training as Licensed Practical Nurses is described. Occupational norms were established in terms of minimum qualifying scores for each significant aptitude measure, which when combined, predict job…