From a questionnaire given to five practicing school psychologists, the author gathered data about the incidence of reading retardation in cases referred to school psychologists. The cases included 96 students from three New Jersey school districts, one California school district, and one Tennessee school district. Approximately 69 percent of the…

This study was made of the practices and problems in rehabilitating public offenders so that meaningful and usable materials would be available for the use of state agencies. The study consisted of a review of the experience of the study group members, a survey of state rehabilitation agencies, a field trip to a cooperative correctional…

New voluntary agencies have grown out of the social changes of the 1960s. These grass-roots organizations, such as coffee houses, legal aid societies, and community counseling centers, differ in program style and attitude from traditional social agencies and may be more effective with alienated and cynical young people. (SJL)

The Higher Education Resource Services was formed to establish a registry and referral system for recruiting women faculty and administrators in order to fulfill equal employment opportunity commitments. A personal account is provided of the resistance encountered and start-up activities of planning, design, organization, and money. (SW)

Describes Project Childcare, initiated by a day care center in Rockland, Maine. The program focuses on cooperation between the day care center and family day care providers. (CM)

Describes the pilot project RENEW (Referral Employment Network for Elder Workers), a five-state model older worker employment project which trains people fifty-five or older and places them in local job service employment offices, finding jobs for other older workers of all incomes. (SH)

Data drawn from home visits with 67 families with multiple problems whose children were not attending school regularly. Provides a model for the use of a referral specialist as part of school attendance staff. Results show positive gains in school attendance and in redirection of these disorganized families. (DOW)

Referral is an important facet of counseling and the success rate can be improved if counselors are aware of the factors discussed in this article that contribute to success or failure. (Author)

This article explores the premise that family systems factors influence the likelihood of referral follow-up and success. Family systems theories describing how families support child behavior problems and how family hierarchies influence the decision to follow through on referrals are discussed. (Author/LMO)

Recent literature on four intervention approaches--cooperative learning, prereferral teams, consulting teachers, and peer tutoring--recommended for accommodating atypical learners in general education settings is reviewed. It is concluded that the research to date does not justify reducing special education services. (Author/DB)

Compared Thailand to United States in regard to children's psychological problems and corresponding clinic referral patterns. Overcontrolled problems (somaticizing, fearfulness, nervous movements, worrying) were reported more often for Thai than for American youth. Undercontrolled problems (disobedience, fighting, lying, arguing) were reported…

Based on written case folder information, 161 preservice teachers made special education classification and placement decisions and indicated what factors they felt had influenced their decisions. Although they believed that test results had exercised the strongest influence, the stated reason for referral actually had the most significant…

Studied the effects of general referral information about a client on subsequent clinical inferences. Nursing students (N=54) were randomly assigned to "referral information" or "no referral information" conditions before being presented with additional data. Clinical inferential tasks included the assessment of maladjustment, client stress,…

Discusses how computers can be used by student development educators for recruitment, referral, and retention. Provides examples of applications, programs, and hardware. (BH)

Reports on an evaluation of the higher levels of California's statewide reference referral network that involved an unobtrusive method utilizing existing records of actual reference transactions evaluated by panel of judges. Reference evaluation methods, findings of other studies, and other uses of the method are discussed. (Nineteen references…