The article cites projects and activities of the Utah State University Developmental Center, including the use of applied technology, in preschool, academic, and social curricula; the use of "expert systems" for special education consultation and decision making; a cost-effectiveness study; early intervention; and an interdisciplinary…

The article describes a programmatic approach that measured the qualitative dimensions and performance of functional movement in 43 infants and young children with delayed motor development (ages 4 weeks to 5 years). Procedures involved selection of posture and movement intervention targets, baseline assessments, intervention sequences,…

Programs to educate severely handicapped children have usually been evaluated with respect to student achievement. Although this approach is reasonable, a multivariate approach that examines the impact on the child's family may be more relevant. Programs to teach the parents and to reduce institutionalization should also be studied. (GDC)

Demands of the institutionalization on regular and special education teachers and administrators are described, as are the competencies required of special education teachers. Results of a recent Canada-wide survey of the current status of programs training teachers and other personnel to work with students having severe and multiple handicaps are…

An intervention procedure consisting of identifying or arranging a social/communicative situation, waiting for and observing student-initiated social/communicative behavior, and imitating and elaborating on responses was effective in increased student opportunities for controlling aspects of student-teacher interaction. Substantial improvements in…

Reported are the results of a survey of all the state certifying agencies and the District of Columbia on certification of special education teachers for the severely/profoundly handicapped. (IM)

This information brief explains the Transition Service Integration Model, an approach to integrating service systems at the point of transition for youth with significant disabilities. It explains that the Transition Services Integration Model is designed to combine the resources of school and postschool systems in sharing the costs of a…

Five severely disabled middle school students received peer training in self-monitoring their classroom behaviors. Teachers chose 11 target behaviors to increase student participation in the general education classroom. Each participating student was assigned a nondisabled eighth-grade peer tutor who received 8 weeks of training in delivery of…

The authors talk about school psychology and the assessment of profoundly handicapped children from their personal experiences in two fields: special education and school psychology. Each author has practical experience relevant to current trends in these fields. (Author)

The positions of three advocates of human rights--Bernard A. O. Williams, A. I. Melden, and Stanley I. Benn--are sketched, and deemed inadequate for extending equal educational rights to severely mentally and emotionally handicapped persons. Lines of inquiry for theorists in this area are suggested. (PP)

A rationale for including a leisure time activities curriculum component in educational programing for severely handicapped individuals is presented. The importance of play and the constructive use of leisure time is described through the use of a model demonstration project. (JN)

This article examines the reasons for measurement, types of measurement procedures and how these techniques may be applied by a teacher in the classroom. Advantages and disadvantages of various measurement techniques including percent, count, frequency, latency, and duration are discussed and an applied example of each tactic is given. (Author)

The article suggests ways to modify and construct adaptive aids for use in teaching eating and drinking, personal hygiene, and dressing/undressing skills to severely and multiply handicapped students. (CL)

Findings suggested that developmental sequencing (of the sort attempted here) may provide an adequate general guide for selecting and sequencing curricula and instruction, but does not provide precise skill sequences which have significant effects on learning rate. (Author)

This study compared parents of children with neuromuscular diseases to parents of children with psychiatric diagnoses, using the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress. The groups showed different patterns of stress relating to child care. Within the neuromuscular group, parental stress increased with the severity of the child's illness.…