Employment programs and services in Western Europe are being tried in varying degrees. Provisions for psychiatrically handicapped are sparse, through improving, and because work and pay for them is important, they should be included in the larger group of hard to employ. (Editor/SB)

Results indicate that in differentiating dropouts from successful clients on the basis of significant mean differences, work behaviors and occupational interests proved to be more important than IQ's or cognitive skills. (Author)

The purpose of the study was to predict the outcome of a stroke victim's vocational rehabilitation through the use of demographic and medical data. Characteristics of stroke clients were used to develop an eight-factor stroke rating scale. Recommendations for further refinement of the scale were included. (Author)

Described are the programs of the National Braille Press and the Library of Congress for providing records, tapes, or cassettes of books to persons unable to use standard printed material. (KW)

It was concluded that blind children exhibit more verbal fluency in the divergent thinking dimension of intelligence than do seeing children. (AG)

A two-year assessment of an open plan architectural design of a school for physically handicapped children is presented. (CD)

Describes a yard, garden, and home maintenance program designed to enable handicapped students to become employable workers. (SB)

At Billings, Montana Center for Physically Handicapped Children, both the teaching techniques employed and the design of the classrooms provide the optimum learning climate. (Author/JL)

Measured the attitudes of male and female university students (N=244) toward blind and other physically disabled students. Survey results showed students reacted most negatively to blind students in academic situations and to students in wheelchairs in social situations. Females reacted more positively than males overall. (WAS)