This handbook is prepared by the University of Southern California for its handicapped students. It contains a description of the facilities located on campus, including accessibility of buildings, restrooms, telephones, ramps, and designated parking spaces. Also included is a description of student services available and solutions to problems…

Where does leisure lead--to philosophical changes, to changes in our behavior and its effect within and with our environment, to a different society? Are we moving from a work to a leisure ethnic? Leisure Today is concerned with the challenge expressed above and with the educational responsibilities for experiences and the consequent individual…

This paper presents findings and recommendations resulting from a study of the equipment and systems currently used to transport wheelchair-confined students. Objective of the study was to assist the California Department of Education in preparing specifications for loading and securement facilities used in transporting wheelchair-confined…

The conference report on planning usable, accessible educational facilities for physically handicapped (orthopedically, visually, and aurally impaired) children features guidelines for eliminating indoor and outdoor architectural barriers. In developing and evaluating the guidelines, the Tennessee School Planning Laboratory analyzed plans of other…

Current literature dealing with the social adjustment of physically handicapped persons falls into four general divisions: articles which amass all physically disabled persons and draw support for conceptual formulations from anecdotal accounts, works which focus on a specific handicap, articles that describe the personality of handicapped persons…

Based on the Las Palomita, New Mexico Sensory Training Program, suggestions are offered to parents for activities that can be done at home to improve the sensory motor integration of children with cerebral palsy or other physical or mental handicaps. Included are directions for activities to improve posture, balance and coordination and walking as…

Facility requirements are presented for a school for severely physically handicapped children to be built for the Human Resources Foundation. Consideration is given to--(1) the educational program, (2) the concept of having classrooms accommodate a series of groups of pupils compatible as to social and age needs, yet flexible as to instructional…

This book examined economic growth and manpower policy and developments in Europe. Chapter I presents statistical data on labor force growth, trends in unemployment, occupational structure, and technological change for 1950-65 and made projections for 1965-80. The second chapter is an analysis of the relationship of manpower policy to general…

Designed as a specialized play area for physically handicapped preschool children with perceptual deficits, The Magruder Environmental Therapy Complex (ETC) is described as a means to create an environment in which these children could function freely. Pictures are used to show children using the equipment and the architectural aspects of…

Presented is the final report of a 1-year New York City program of 18 special classes for 133 doubly (physically and mentally) handicapped children, 5-20 years of age. Noted are criteria for student selection such as IQ below 75, the presence of one or more physical handicaps, and completion of toilet training. It is reported that most pupils…

A followup study of aurally, visually, and physically handicapped graduates of the Cincinnati Public Schools was investigated for use in future educational planning for handicapped children. A random selection of 24 aurally handicapped, 15 visually handicapped and 34 physically handicapped graduates were interviewed. Twenty nine of the group met…

The effects of emotional role playing on interpersonal attitudes toward the disabled are explored. Three treatment groups (role players, vicarious role players, and controls) were involved. Role playing consisted of traveling about the campus in a wheel chair for an hour. Results indicated that, compared to the control experience, both direct and…

Reported is the progress of a vocational rehabilitation program for severely disabled students at the University of California, Berkeley. The Cowell Hospital Project provides housing and special assistance for quadriplegics with an especially favorable academic prognosis. The report summarizes the project's funding, type of clients, admission…

Recognizing a need for improvement in their vocational education offerings, the administration of the program for the deaf appointed a study team representing backgrounds including education of the deaf, manpower research, public administration, and occupational analysis. This report presents their specific analysis and recommendations for a…

The proceedings of the European Symposium on Occupational Rehabilitation and Placement of the Disabled present a general survey of the problem of reintegrating disabled persons into working life. Member countries agreed that men and women must be rehabilitated as much as possible rather than pensioned off prematurely. To accomplish this the labor…