Discusses strategies for individualizing instruction for the following groups of special needs students: hearing impaired, visually impaired, those with learning and/or behavior disorders, and orthopedically or health impaired. Also discusses the behavioral approach to classroom management in relation to special students. (SH)

The well-planned playground can serve as the common denominator for all children, with the resulting process of play as the natural avenue for knowing and understanding oneself and others. Guidelines are presented for considering the needs of children in general, as well as the needs of the physically-, visually-, and hearing-impaired, and the…

The literature is reviewed on the variety of living options for physically disabled adults in the United Kingdom with reference to influences from Northern Europe and the United States. Noted are hospital units, residential care programs, collective and sheltered community housing, and integrated housing. (DB)

Reports two investigations of the self-efficacy beliefs of students with and without a physical disability. Used the Social Situations Questionnaire, Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale, and the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Social Skills to validate the instruments developed for this investigation, the College Interaction Self-Efficacy…

Considers Blos' conceptualization of adolescence as the stage when a second process of separation-individuation takes place. Notes various handicapping conditions may force adolescent to stay closer to family and hence interfere with adolescent's separation-individuation. Suggests that nature of interference will vary depending on whether the…

The author, a 40-year-old quadriplegic, discusses his positive experiences as a cooperative education student in the field of writing. (CH)

Compared physically disabled and able-bodied college students on Erickson's epigenetic stages of life-span development, and Maslow's motivational needs hierarchy of personality development. The groups were more similar than dissimilar in ego development and needs level. College students with disabilities may be a select population because of their…

Stress response among 150 physically injured Spanish-speaking/surnamed workers in the Los Angeles area was assessed through one-and-one-half-hour individual psychiatric evaluations. Most were first-generation Mexican American males with little formal education, an agrarian background, and in unskilled jobs prior to their injuries. Psychiatric…

Discussion of developments in microcomputer peripherals for special needs users focuses on speech synthesis for vocally impaired and mentally retarded users and speech recognition and modified keyboard technologies for physically disabled users. Specific hardware and software product names and manufacturers are included in a table together with…

This series outlines sport opportunities for athletes with disabilities. Included are articles discussing sports for athletes with cerebral palsy, deaf athletes, blind athletes, wheelchair bound athletes, amputee athletes, as well as a discussion of the Special Olympics. (JMK)

Orthopedically disabled adults were surveyed by written questionnaire to determine what information sources they perceived to be available, which they used, and which they preferred to use to receive information about the selection, adaptation, and construction of clothing. The following sources were recommended: county extension bulletins,…

Discusses aversions toward the disabled that still prevail and reasons why they exist, surveys literature showing negative stereotypes of the disabled, and literature in which such characters are realistically portrayed, and presents criteria for selecting reading materials in which nonstereotyped characters are depicted. (FL)

Reports on the Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley, California, one of the most remarkable and probably the largest self-help enterprise of disabled people to have surfaced in the past 25 years. (Author/AM)

The third in a series of Ciba Foundation/Medical Student Conferences, held in Oxford in October 1975, is reported. Topics covered diagnosis, prevention, and care of the handicapped and problems facing parents and families of these children. (LBH)

Discusses the controversy surrounding federal regulations imposed on colleges and universities to require removal of barriers to mobility of handicapped persons and guidelines for admission, testing, and counseling of handicapped persons. (MLH)