The manual is intended to help parents and professionals understand the motor development of Down's syndrome infants and young children. Following an overview of motor development, gross and fine motor landmarks are presented along with exercises and activities to promote their development in infancy, toddlerhood, and childhood. Each landmark is…

Intended for professionals and parents, this monograph focuses on the service needs of young children with cerebral palsy. Section I presents an overview of cerebral palsy, including etiology, incidence, and history of management. Section II describes service needs in the following areas: prevention; early identification; treatment; the…

This publication describes Utah's Handicapped Child Data Project, an interagency effort to share information among agencies dealing with developmentally disabled persons and establish a central registry. Five action steps in such a venture are noted, including identifying potential sources of information on state and individual levels, decreasing…

One of a series designed to help Florida school districts provide special programs for exceptional children, the manual presents a training guide on interagency coordination for profoundly mentally handicapped students. Instructions are provided for conducting group sessions and extensive examples of handouts are furnished. Objectives are listed…

This paper outlines the structure underlying the School Success Project in Hawaii, a group working for school renewal using the partnership structure developed by John Goodlad's National Network for Educational Renewal and Hawaii-developed strategies for school success. The advantages of the partnership concept are discussed, and then details of…

As part of a series of studies describing the oculomotor behavior of skilled readers, a study investigated whether a word refixation curve exists. Subjects, 66 college students fixating over 40,000 times, read lines of text from a computer screen and were instructed to read for meaning without regard to errors. Results of eye movement control…

This study sought to: (1) determine whether Educational Kinesiology (E-K) integration movements have an effect upon the static balance of learning disabled elementary students; (2) determine if E-K repatterning increases the effects of the movements; and (3) examine possible gender differences. Sixty elementary school students were matched on age…

Twelve industrial arts (IA) teachers and supervisors were interviewed to obtain information on the significant changes that have occurred in the goals of IA. The issues were the present status of the IA curriculum in Ohio, the contribution IA makes to vocational education, the relationships between IA and vocational education, and provision for…

This book provides a suggested model for district administrators, Job Service district directors, Private Industry Councils, and others working to create or re-implement in-school job placement programs in Wisconsin high schools. It includes a list of points to be considered and covered in the "statement of agreement" drawn up by…

A project is described to develop a model system by which local education agencies (LEAs) can form successful working relationships with other human service providers to better serve special education students. The models (both process and content) designate LEAs as the central access point to the service continuum. The project's efforts to devise…

The problems involved in articulating course offerings in two-year and four-year institutions and the transfer of students and efforts at a solution are discussed. (Editor)

The principal objective of this project was to demonstrate a new approach to the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services in rural counties. A three-year Expansion Project was conducted in two typical rural counties of West Virginia, Pendleton and Gilmer Counties. Prior plans for delivery of services by means of itinerant counselors were…

This report by the Commission for Consortium Study and Development is divided into three sections. In section one consortia are defined; the perimeters and benefits to be derived from such cooperation are discussed; and the organization and implementation of consortia are outlined. Section two described student teaching exchange programs. The…

Short summaries are presented of 53 of the 1975 annual reports of the State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education. Focus is on each State's concerns and major recommendations as opposed to State goals, objectives, program offerings, enrollments, or council activities. The 53 summaries are arranged alphabetically by State following a seven-page…

Describes an experiment in which luminescence is observed during a reaction between sodium borohydride and trisbipyridalruthenium (III). Includes a discussion of the theory of chemiluminescence. (MLH)