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Download full textMeyen, Edward L.; Carr, Donald L. – 1968
Developmental steps to writing life experience units for the educable retarded are outlined and six units are partially completed. Objectives of the unit, sub-units, core activities, resource materials, vocabulary words, and lesson plans are provided for primary units on school orientation and clothing, intermediate units on grooming and taking a…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Clothing Instruction, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Riordan, Mary – 1973
The manual, to be used by the itinerant resource teacher, presents teaching objectives and proficiency levels for the development of communication, living, and social skills of visually handicapped students in kindergarten through grade 12. Communication skills are enumerated (number is indicated in parentheses) for totally blind students in areas…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Blindness, Braille, Communication Skills
TOBIAS, JACK – 1963
AN OCCUPATIONAL DAY CENTER FOR MENTALLY RETARDED ADULTS WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR RETARDED PERSONS WHO LIVE AT HOME AND, ALTHOUGH BEYOND SCHOOL AGE, ARE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN SHELTERED WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES. THE STAFF INCLUDES A DIRECTOR, A SOCIAL WORKER, FIVE INSTRUCTORS, A TRAINING SUPERVISOR, AN OFFICE WORKER, AND A…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Day Care, Demonstration Programs
Dever, Richard B. – 1987
This paper is a product of Project COMPETE, a service demonstration project undertaken for the purpose of developing and validating a model and training sequence to improve transition services for moderately, severely, and profoundly retarded youth. The paper describes the Taxonomy of Community Living Skills, an organized statement of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Classification, Community Involvement, Daily Living Skills
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. Sensory Aids Evaluation and Development Center. – 1967
THIS REPORT PRESENTS INFORMATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SENSORY AIDS AT THE SENSORY AIDS EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) BETWEEN OCTOBER 1965 AND NOVEMBER 1966. INCLUDED ARE (1) THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND TESTING OF A RELIABLE MONOTYPE TAPE READER WHICH WILL BE USED IN…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Computers, Electromechanical Aids
Lobuts, Joseph E. – 1977
Using an itinerant team of professional rehabilitation personnel, a three-year project was conducted in West Virginia to provide the older blind in three counties (Cabell, Wood, Kanawha) with comprehensive rehabilitation services in both the home and community so that they could become as independent as possible, and, if possible, obtain gainful…
Descriptors: Blindness, Communication Skills, Community Resources, Daily Living Skills
Multnomah County Intermediate Education District, Portland, OR. – 1968
An introduction on blindness is followed by a summary of the initial planning grant proposal for cooperative statewide orientation and mobility program for blind children. Background, development, and utilization of mobility-orientation training are discussed in conjunction with educational programs, guide dogs, canes, mobility readiness,…
Descriptors: Administration, Blindness, Cooperative Programs, Demography
Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, NJ. – 1983
A joint collaborative effort between Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital and the Parsippany Adult School had as its objective the facilitation of the deinstitutionalization and the assumption of the normal societal role of workers for emotionally disabled citizens. This was to be accomplished through the development, delivery, and refinement of a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Gonwa, Jim; Clary, Joan Turner – 1984
The framework is intended to help staff develop curricula for mildly mentally retarded students in special and regular education and assist both educators and parents in evaluating the curricula. Distinctions between a curriculum and a framework are made. The proposed framework describes essential skills, competencies, and concepts necessary for…
Descriptors: Art, Career Education, Citizenship, Communication Skills
Starnes, Jean; Damron, Imogene – 1985
This curriculum guide is intended for use with mentally retarded adults who are enrolled in adult basic education classes. The curriculum provides guidelines to improve students' competencies in three main areas: general functioning skills and independence (transportation, interpersonal relationships, health and safety, goal setting, planning and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
CLARK, LESLIE L., ED. – 1964
THE FOLLOWING FOUR RESEARCH REPORTS ON ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY FOR THE BLIND BASED ON AURAL INFORMATION ARE CONTAINED IN THIS BULLETIN--"A PSYCHOACOUSTIC STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING HUMAN ECHOLOCATION" BY JOHN R. WELCH, "ORIENTATION BY AURAL CLUES" BY IVO KOHLER, "SONAR SYSTEM OF THE BLIND" BY WINTHROP N. KELLOGG, AND "TRIAL OF AN ACOUSTIC BLIND…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli
American Foundation for the Blind, New York, NY. – 1968
Suggestions for curriculum development for educable mentally handicapped, visually handicapped students aged 13 to 18 years are presented. A discussion of communication skills includes the areas of listening, oral communication, reading, writing, and spelling and teaching methods for each. The goals of the computation skills sequence, basic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Communication Skills, Curriculum
Wisconsin Univ. - Stout, Menomonie. Dept. of Rehabilitation and Manpower Services. Materials Development Center. – 1978
Designed for use in group and shelter homes, this curriculum is intended to impart the necessary skills for independent living. It should also better prepare mentally and physically handicapped individuals with the training required to handle the responsibilities accompanying competitive employment. These fourteen courses are included: money…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Course Descriptions, Daily Living Skills
American Foundation for the Blind, New York, NY. – 1962
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS CONCERNING RESEARCH WITH THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED ARE CONTAINED IN THIS BULLETIN--"SELECTED IMPAIRMENTS BY ETIOLOGY AND ACTIVITY LIMITATION, UNITED STATES, JULY 1959-JUNE 1961,""AN EXPERIMENT USING REVISED STIMULUS PRESENTATION" BY S. KARP, "EXPERIMENTS IN TACTUAL PERCEPTION" BY S. KARP, "A STUDY OF BRAILLE CODE REVISIONS" BY…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Blindness, Braille
Kreps, Alice Roelofs; Dreith, Rita Vallero – 1976
One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Traveling II. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Bus Transportation, Class Activities
