This overview of new products from library equipment manufacturers includes shelving and storage systems for print and non-print materials, reading aids for the visually impaired and physically handicapped, library materials repair and maintenance products, audiovisual equipment, microfilm readers, and microfilm duplicators. (JAB)

Describes a curriculum developed to train rehabilitation professionals in sexual counseling for disabled persons within the context of normalization and social integration. The curriculum consists of didactic, experiential, and clinical training components. (BM)

The Dae Valley Camp, near Memphis, Tennessee, has operated for 11 years as a summer day camp with facilities for normal and disabled (handicapped and/or learning disabled) children. Organization and activities are described. (MJB)

Sex education can help handicapped individuals in finding sexual satisfaction and may foster self-responsibility, maturity, and positive actions towards other rehabilitation goals. (MM)

Questionnaires were distributed to 178 physically disabled persons attending the 1976 Illinois White House Conference on the Handicapped to assess their view of their disabilities. Analysis of responses (eighty-eight, or 52 per cent, completed the questionnaires) indicated general agreement that disability was not a terrible thing, but attitudes…

Two groups of elementary school teachers were given the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale, consisting of a 35-item questionnaire, to measure their attitudes toward the disabled. It was suggested that classroom teachers who have not been exposed to physically disabled children need help in changing their stereotypes and overcoming certain…

In view of a lack of objective personality data on adjustment problems of impaired adolescents, this research attempts to determine whether significant personality differences would be reflected by the MMPI between a group of impaired and nonimpaired adolescents. (Author/RK)

Recent studies concerned with training clients in job-seeking skills, together with investigations on the relative effectiveness of formal and informal job seeking methods point to a promising alternative to selective placement for clients who are capable of an independent job search. (Author)

The study involving six single and multiple amputee children (10 to 14 years old) was conducted to provide information on how situations affect the self esteem of amputee children, how situations affect satisfaction with their prostheses, and the relationship between amputee self esteem and their satisfaction with their prosthetic device.…

The authors describe the development of a case conference system for a special school with physically and mentally handicapped students (6 to 16-years-old). (IM)

Surveys about mainstreaming orthopedically handicapped students were completed by 74 school administrators in California. (CL)

The study investigated vocational activities of 274 English young people between the ages of 15 and 21. Two-thirds entered occupational centers for disabled adults; only 5% found a job in open employment. The physically impaired experienced a more difficult transition but the mentally impaired faced a more limited range of vocational choices.…

Various data on the 397 participants who identified themselves as orthopedically handicapped in the national "High School and Beyond" study were compared to data on nonorthopedically handicapped participants. Findings, and speculations regarding them, are offered. (Author/MT)