Instructing the physically handicapped technical education student in the use of adaptive equipment (AE), such as Braille computers, involves four steps: keeping a current file of access to AE, insuring proper education in the use of AE, encouraging student creativity, and evaluating the equipment to recommend changes and adaptations. (CT)

A group of teachers' advisers and college tutors became interested in developing some "safe" science activities for junior high school physically handicapped students. A series of pacakage experiments on approximately 30 scientific principles were tested for potential drawbacks for the handicapped child. Several experiments are described. (SBH)

With the cooperation of local high school students a recreation program was developed for elderly handicapped people. (JD)

Suggestions are made for removing potential hazards for the physically handicapped. (JD)

Studies morbidity and disability rates of nonmarried, married, and formerly married people using age-adjusted data from federal health surveys in 1960 and 1970. In the noninstitutional population, divorced and separated people have the worst health status. Widowed people rank second, followed by single people; married people appear healthiest.…

The school nurse plays a significant role in the education of the handicapped as a result of Public Law 94-142. (MM)

Presents suggestions for severity of disability criteria and closure criteria for severely disabled clients being served by an independent living rehabilitation center. Suggestions are founded on experience from a three-year-old project. Measurements of physical, psychosocial, and environmental factors for inclusion in the two sets of criteria are…

The article presents a personal profile of the many adjustment problems facing a physically handicapped seventh-grader who had spent the previous six years in a special school and was now being mainstreamed into a regular junior high, and how it affected his family. (DLS)

Current "right to life" literature is reviewed, and controversial issues are highlighted with regard to physically deformed infants. (Author)

Twenty 7-10 year old children with spina bifida cystica and hydrocephalus and 20 normals matched for age, sex and IQ were compared on a 12-trial target task, first used by Connolly, Brown & Bassett (1968). Findings are discussed in relation to neurological abnormalities in the spina bifida group. (Editor/RK)

For availability see EC 091 173. Described are communication aids and equipment for the physically or severely handicapped individual with non-verbal problems, including devices in the following categories: communication boards, electronic boards, a slide system, and typewriters. (IM)

Aspects of sexuality for persons with paraplegia, quadraplegia, or spina bifida are discussed, with emphasis on the achievement of sexual satisfaction for these persons and their partners. (IM)

Reported are several cases of athetoid cerebral palsied children successfully learning to use the left foot to operate an electronically controlled typewriter. (IM)

Gives examples of how various Department of Labor programs provide aid to the employable handicapped. (LAS)

Discusses the challenge of employers to provide reasonable accomodation and of educators to increase vocational education opportunities for employment among disabled persons. (LAS)