Improvements in the physical environment of the disabled may be achieved in design attitudes, public environment, and private dwellings. (Author)

Outlines the problems of schools for the handicapped and the factors an architect must consider when designing a special school. (Author)

Adapted from a speech delivered at the Golden Anniversary Convention of the National Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults (Nov. 21, 1969). (Author)

Individuals with various physical disabilities were studied to determine their levels of adjustment to their handicaps. (CK)

Behaviors of 16 teachers who had a day to day contact with 23 physically handicapped, mainstreamed high schoolers were observed and categorized. Data revealed that teachers spent significantly more time, on average, assisting the handicapped students. (CL)

Studied vocational interests of persons with spinal cord injury. Using the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory, participants' scores were compared to norms for men and women in general on the inventory. Showed their interests were often incongruent with their physical limitations and suggested that counselors must assist in identifying vocational…

Examined the possibility that retirement contributed to decline in self-reported health. Within-individual changes in self-reported health for retirees were compared with changes among 386 age peers who continued to work. Eventual retirees had no greater age-adjusted incidence of health decline than did continuing workers. (Author)

Discusses adolescent novels that use physical handicaps as the subject to show how recent adolescent fiction is less dramatic but more realistic than it was in the mid-1970's. Three references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Findings indicated that the children assigned different competencies to disabled and nondisabled persons and that these differences decreased after the children were given the opportunity to interact with a disabled older child. (DB)

Personality was studied in three groups of chronically ill (diabetic or hemophiliac) and physically handicapped children and adolescents (N=104, mean age 13 years) and compared to that of healthy control groups. Among physically handicapped children a pattern emerged indicating lack of emotional integration into environment without conflict.…

Presented is a chart for educators on common medications which may be taken by students for such health problems as diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy, asthma, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and leukemia. The possible side effects of each drug are explained. (SJL)

Reports on the application of experiential learning to a college level sociology course on the social consequences of disability. The course involves traditional methods such as reading/lecture/examination and more innovative approaches such as experiential learning and directing students to manage their own learning processes. (Author/DB)

Reports the activities of IFLA's Round Table of Libraries for the Blind to develop library services, including the production of audiomaterials in standardized formats to facilitate copying for exchange or borrowing. Current projects are concerned with copyright, formats, postal regulation and custom law, international relations, bibliographic…