The teaching-learning process for emotionally disturbed children is explored by nine conference participants at Syracuse University. The interaction analysis system developed by Flanders and its adaptability to classroom situations faced by teachers of disturbed children are discussed; and comments on the applicability of this system are included.…

Consultants' papers dealing with educational priorities, learning problems, recommendations for improvement, and modern technology as they relate to migrant education are presented. Consultant and participant responses during a group discussion on facilitating the learning of migrant children appear in full. The report sets forth the schedule…

Addressing itself to factors leading to the misdiagnosis of the brain damaged child and the aphasic child, the Pathway School's Second Annual Institute considered the differences between the following: the aphasic and the aphasoid child; the sensory aphasic and the deaf child; the psychotic and the psychotic aphasic child; childhood brain damage…

The conference proceedings of scientists specializing in language processes and neurophysiological mechanisms are reported to stimulate a cross-over of interest and research in the central brain phenomena (reception, understanding, retention, integration, formulation, and expression) as they relate to speech and language. Eighteen research reports…

Recommendations by the representatives of countries participating in the Fifth Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf held in Warsaw are listed in this report. Five recommendations each are presented by the Medical and Audiological Commission, the Psychological C mmission, the Pedagogical Commission, the Social Commission, and the Commission…

This volume contains the proceedings of two conferences. One conference was concerned primarily with research on racial desegregation and integration in public education, and was highlighted by a paper by Irwin Katz, "Problems and Directions for Research in Public School Desegregation." The second conference focused on social change and the role…

The works cited on this extensively annotated bibliography represent approaches for understanding the language development of disadvantaged children. The subjects covered are bilingualism and dialectology, developmental influences (ethnic, family and home, instructional, and social and economic) and developmental status and processes (behavioral,…

This conference was conducted to communicate the deliberations of prior conferences to those who are responsible for planning research and allocating funds in the area of the education of the disadvantaged and/or segregated. Major purposes were: (1) to improve communication between investigators working in this field; (2) to stimulate interest in…

Fifteen University of Minnesota volunteers spent the summer of 1967 working with Chippewa Indian youngsters, grades 1-12, on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. This fifth annual report contains overviews of the four previous summer programs, descriptions of volunteer training procedures, enrichment and vocational motivation…

The Seminar, a joint venture of the Agency for International Development and the Labor Department of the United States, brought together 29 participants from 20 developing countries for the purpose of exchanging ideas and experiences on manpower programs and planning efforts. These proceedings are the result of notes taken by reporters during the…

Proceedings of an inservice conference on teacher militancy and collective bargaining are reported. Section one presents resumes of speeches delivered by experts from the fields of law, business, labor arbitration, and professional negotiations. Topics of the speeches include new developments in professional negotiations, arbitration in public…

This booklet contains abstracts of papers presented at the 1974 conference of the Keystone State (Pennsylvania) Reading Association--the theme of the meeting was "humanism in reading." Abstracts are grouped according to the following "strands," or topics: early childhood, literacy and multilingual/multicultural education,…

Summarized are the proceedings of a conference on the education of severely and profoundly handicapped children and youth. Following a welcome address by J. Kierstead are entries with the following titles and authors: "Basic Components of Instructional Programs--Theory into Practice" (L. Brown, et al.); "The Criterion of Ultimate…

Covering the period between July 1 to December 31, 1976, this third semi-annual report on the Applied Fishery Science Program operative at Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska deals primarily with the first quarter of hatchery and educational program operation. Specifically, this report addresses the following: Program Objectives; Advisory…

Papers include: public responsibility for equality and justice (Charles V. Hamilton); justice is the reversal of discrimination (Kenneth S. Tollett); the ramifications of Bakke and the destiny of affirmative action (Herbert O. Reid, Sr.); the justice of affirmative action (Kenneth A. Strike); legislative and administrative attacks on affirmative…