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Download full textVanderheiden, Gregg C.; Brandenburg, S. – 1986
This toy modification note presents illustrated instructions on how to build a battery interrupter that permits on/off control of battery-operated toys without modification of the toys themselves. The device allows for a separate control switch which can be custom designed to fit a handicapped user's needs. Information on the construction and use…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Construction (Process), Electric Batteries, Illustrations
Illinois Univ., Urbana. – 1982
A 1981-1982 performance report is presented for the University of Illinois' Model Program for Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented (RAPYHT), which served learning-disabled, speech-impaired, orthopedically impaired, and other disabled children (3-5 years old) and provided technical assistance to replication sites.…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Creativity, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Silence, Judith O. – 1981
The Purdue School of Engineering and Technology (Indianapolis, Indiana) sponsored a career exploration program for physically handicapped high school students. Each group of students spent three mornings in one of four engineering and technology areas. In the computer section, half the time was spent in the classroom discussing such topics as what…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, College Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education
Michigan State Dept. of Public Health, Lansing, MI. Div. of Services to Crippled Children. – 1984
The report describes Michigan's services to handicapped children provided under the Division of Services to Crippled Children of the Michigan Department of Public Health. The Crippled Children's Program (CCP) focuses on prevention, casefunding, diagnosis, medical care and treatment, and health care management. The program initiated the Locally…
Descriptors: Amputations, Congenital Impairments, Eligibility, Medical Services
Reingold, Jacob; Wolk, Robert L. – Industrial Gerontology, 1974
Descriptors: Facilities, Job Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Older Adults
Szoke, Claire – Illinois Career Education Journal, 1974
Descriptors: Career Education, Deafness, Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances
Schleifer, Maxwell J. – Exceptional Parent, 1974
A case history is presented which illustrates problems of the husband and the 12-year-old daughter in a family where the mother devoted almost all her energy to her cerebral palsied son. (GW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Exceptional Child Education, Family (Sociological Unit)
Baker, B. Kimball – Manpower, 1975
A national apprenticeship program in prosthetics allows trainees to better themselves and help other people. (Author)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Amputations, Apprenticeships, Employment Qualifications
Rosenthal, Sol Roy – Rehabilitation Literature, 1975
A preliminary survey was made of the physical and mental reactions during and after horseback riding of 102 physically handicapped children (75 percent were 5-to 15-years-old) from centers in England, Ireland, Wales, Canada and the United States. (LH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Exceptional Child Services, Horseback Riding, Mobility Aids
Peer reviewedZackai, Elaine H.; And Others – Journal of Pediatrics, 1975
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Drug Therapy, Etiology
Peer reviewedHanson, James W.; Smith, David W. – Journal of Pediatrics, 1975
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Drug Therapy, Etiology
Peer reviewedPoor, Charles R. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1975
Reviews historical development of organized vocational rehabilitation programming for the spinal cord injured in the United States. Significant factors that affect vocational rehabilitation outcomes with spinal cord injured persons are listed and discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Employment Programs, Job Placement, Neurological Impairments
Nugent, Timothy J. – J Health Phys Educ Recreation, 1969
From a special section, "Adapted Physical Education. Also see AA 501 888, AA 501 890 through AA 501 894.
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Demonstration Programs, Individualized Instruction, Physical Disabilities
Isaacson-Kailes, June; And Others – 1981
The document describes a study which investigated the social adjustment of orthopedically handicapped (OH), mainstreamed, high school students by comparing their status with that of their nonOH classmates on several socioaffective measures. An introduction reviews literature on the assumptions underlying mainstreaming and research on the academic…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mainstreaming, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship
Thompson, Teresa L. – 1981
A two-year long study investigated the influence of being in a mainstreamed classroom on nonhandicapped children's abilities to communicate with the handicapped. The study involved three groups of students: (1) 66 nonhandicapped, nonintegrated (those in classes without handicapped children); (2) 24 nonhandicapped, integrated; and (3) 55…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Communication Research
