The guide was designed to assist public school personnel in the delivery of educational services to young handicapped children by providing access to information on model programs, increasing knowledge of adopting or adapting educational innovations, suggesting pertinent questions to ask when considering a specific model, and recommending sources…

Several strategies can be used in gaining campus-wide acceptance of new tutorial programs or other support services. First, publicize the service at least one semester in advance through marquee signs, fliers, and participation in appropriate campus events and activities. Second, make instructional staff aware of the fact that the tutorial program…

According to an attribution analysis, changing one's opinion toward the position advocated in a persuasive message is an outcome of one's inferences concerning why the communicator has taken the position. A study was undertaken to clarify the cognitive steps by which recipients went from information about communicator characteristics or…

This learning module introduces the Concerns Based Adoption Model, which identifies seven developmental stages in the process of adopting innovations. After listing the stages and citing statements which might typify a person's degree of concern with the innovation, the module provides brief descriptions of: (1) the awareness stage, which is…

This report consists of three charts which present data on adoption patterns in New York City in the year 1976. The report is based on quarterly Child Welfare Information Service (CWIS) reports developed by Dave Fanshel and John Grundy. Each chart is accompanied by a brief explanatory text, and a summary of the findings. The charts present data on…

The document provides a state-by-state summary of laws and policies applicable to persons with epilepsy. State profiles cover the following 14 areas: adoption, antidiscrimination, arrest/search, drivers' licenses, institutionalization, marriage, reportability, special education, state certification, state education, state employment, state…

There are three crucial communication links required for the successful transfer of technology in rubber smallholder programs: (1) from smallholder to program planners and managers, (2) within the administrative organization, and (3) from the planners and managers to the smallholders. All three links must be functioning adequately in order to…

Changes in the attitudes of 1,950 initially rural Pennsylvania individuals toward selected aspects of traditional morality were examined by comparing the expressed opinions of persons surveyed in 1947, when adolescent, with their responses in 1971, when in their early forties. In both 1947 and 1971 the subjects were asked to respond to an…

Bibliotherapy helps children explore, within the security of a story approach, the trauma and drama of life. The proliferation of literature on topics that were once taboo indicates a concern for intent which may result in a bandwagon approach with few criteria of selection. The annotated bibliography provided in this paper includes sixteen books…

The paper presents some informal observations and conclusions drawn from Hawaii's experience with large-scale implementation of new curricula in music, the arts, English language arts, and science over the past ten years. It summarizes each project's different approach to implementation and discusses briefly a number of common conclusions…

Presented is Volume 1 of a final report on a project to determine policies likely to result in maximized adoptive placements for mentally, emotionally, or physically handicapped children. It is explained that 205 foster care and adoption workers and 79 agency directors in six states (Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina)…

This booklet addresses the topic of evaluating people and is intended to provide assistance to persons involved in establishing a positive approach to comprehensively appraising the performance of individuals within their respective organizations. The booklet describes a systematic approach that uses the specification of measurable objectives as…

This yearbook is an effort to reevaluate the metric system and to present testimonies from people in various occupations with respect to metric usage (as of 1948). The first of four major sections explains the metric system and its development. Next are 29 articles discussing the usage of the system in the general areas of education, science,…

This booklet urges social agencies to focus more attention on older children who have not previously been considered for adoption and describes a San Diego adoption program for older children in which the psychological difficulties faced by these children are discussed. The booklet offers suggestions for the social worker in earning the child's…

Research was undertaken to evaluate the degree to which a program of exhibiting display modules of new teaching methods influenced the adoption of those methods. The study examined: 1) the prior adoption level of display visitors, 2) the amount of attention paid to different aspects of the displays, 3) the reactions to displays, 4) the ability of…