Written primarily for parents of cerebral palsied children, the text discusses and illustrates methods for handling the child in daily activities. Introduced with a questionnaire concerning developmental stages and activity levels, the manual describes the most common difficulties of the spastic, athetoid, ataxic, or flaccid child. Drawings and…

Consideration of school facilities for physically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and mentally retarded children includes a brief discussion of special education and some introductory comments on each condition. Suggestions are given for the design and construction of appropriate school facilities. (FS)

This annotated bibliography covers literature on work evaluation and adjustment for the period 1947 to 1973. The 801 entries include articles, speeches, research and demonstration reports, and unpublished papers related to work evaluation and work adjustment. Many of the entries concern the vocational evaluation of the physically and mentally…

This catalog describes 39 programs providing Federal financial support for research, training, and technical assistance in physical education and/or recreation for impaired, disabled, and handicapped persons. Information on each program is given, including: (a) specific types of assistance provided, (b) purposes for which assistance is available,…

Joint training of rehabilitation counselors and social caseworkers has the potential for developing and improving professional techniques to increase the number of handicapped welfare recipients who can be rehabilitated. A regional curriculum for Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, this joint…

The study was designed to develop and validate a set of measures that might be useful in predicting "success" in orthotic and prosthetic educational programs. Two hundred and eleven entering students from four institutions were administered the screening battery. The institutions were: Cerritos College, New York University, Northwestern…

The memorandum gives guidance to the provision and organization of library services at hospitals both for staff and for patients. It also draws attention to the assistance available from outside sources towards the development and maintenance of these services so hospital authorities may make the most effective use of the available facilities.…

The monograph has been arranged to offer the reader maximum insight into not only the role of the Vocational Expert, but his role when viewed as one factor interdependent with several others in the total context of the adjudicative process of the Social Security disability program. Emphasis is given to its genesis and evaluation, emphasizing the…

The various specialty occupations dealing with the rehabilitation of the disabled, retarded, disfigured, emotionally disturbed and socially disadvantaged have for a number of years suffered a manpower shortage. Since rehabilitation clients are stigmatized as unpleasantly different, and dealing with them is therefore considered "dirty work," it has…

The appendix examined the measurement instruments developed in the course of the Integrated Management of Cerebral Palsy project to measure functional movements and socialization skills of severly handicapped, nonambulatory cerebral palsied children who had limited speech. The field test sample consisted of 51 cases for the Eau Claire Functional…

Four hundred and fourteen agencies were surveyed by questionnaire concerning programs, research, or other activities or services which they were sponsoring for children and youth who are mentally retarded or suffer from brain damage. Agencies included national voluntary, lay, and professional organizations and governor-appointed state committees.…

This study analyzes the characteristics of Adoption Resource Exchange of America (ARENA) registration in 1969 and 1972 in relation to factors associated with placement. The survey includes 615 children and 1,020 families. Geographically source of registration had little relation to location of placement, with only 13% placed in the state they…

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of non-disabled persons toward physically disabled persons. The degree of impairment, sex of stimulus persons, and sex of subjects were the independent variables. The subjects consisted of 120 psychology students from Kent State University, Ashtabula Regional Campus. Each subject…

Presented is a sequential motor development model for use in the assessment of physically handicapped children by physical educators, and discussed is criterion testing and its role in the identification of motor development. The author points out that professionals are generally relied upon in the areas of auditory and visual evaluations, and…

An instrument which affords blind students opportunities for direct observation, experimentation, and discovery is described. Accompanying the light sensor is a manual containing 25 experiments. (EB)