Designed for parents, the guide offers instructions for home activities to supplement the school program for children with perceptual motor disturbances. An individual program sheet is provided; behavioral characteristics and the child's need for structure are explained. Activities detailed include motor planning, body image, fine motor…

A battery of perceptual motor skills tests was administered to 107 freshman and 84 senior dental students for the purposes of determining the factor structure of the battery and studying differences between the two groups. The tests used included Minnesota Rate of Manipulation Test (MRM), Placing and Turning; O'Connor Finger Dexterity; O'Connor…

By tracing the development and operation of the laws underlying the present manpower program, this report points out the contradictions, overlap, and duplication which is built into the system. Lack of coordination among programs is compounded by separate funding, which increases friction between different levels of government. The report develops…

One hundred and three persons, including 77 state coordinators and administrators representing 43 states, attended a 1966 migrant education meeting sponsored by the U. S. Office of Education. The primary objective of the meeting was to find ways to improve the effectiveness and quality of educational programs for children of migratory agricultural…

To help cooperative education teacher-coordinators bridge the gap between preservice teacher education classes and on-the-job coordination skill requirements, a prototype self-instructional package on cooperative education coordination skills was developed which included video recorded interview models with discrimination training. The package was…

Some 45 public and private schools were involved in planning for coordinated data processing services. Considerable emphasis was placed on inclusion of in-service activities for school personnel in connection with the planning. The personnel, through questionnaires, indicated the anticipated value of the benefits of the plan. The questionnaire…

This presentation introduced the theory and practice of psychomotor education as developed by de Ajuriaguerra and Naville at the University of Geneva. Some overlap of their concepts and principles with perceptual motor training methods occurred in the United States, according to the authors. The focus of the theoretical discussion integrated…

To assess static balance ability in children 239 subjects (ages 5 to 9) were tested using a technique of electronic ataxiametry. Body weight displacement was measured for various postures. The scores correlated significantly with teacher's evaluation of school preparedness, basic math skills, and reading achievement in samples of normal children.…

It is important that ways be found for the resources of the university to be used in improving relations among the divergent and conflicting groups in local communities. The primary resource, education, can be used in creating new channels of communication. It can also bring together academicians, professionals in human relations, citizen leaders,…

This report describes the process by which participating agencies in the Interagency Panel on Early Childhood Research and Development establish priorities, translate these priorities into research activities, and utilize these research findings in further policy decisions and research planning. The process is discussed under the following…

This report describes the early childhood educator training programs of the 4-C (Community Coordinated Child Care) project, held in Milwaukee and Dane Counties, Wisconsin from 1970 to 1973. The goal of the training programs was to help teacher-directors, teachers, teacher-aides, and parent-assistants become aware of ways to improve and expand…

Use of a predictor display has been shown to virtually transform the difficulty of a variety of complex, manual control pursuit tracking tasks to the level of those having relatively simple control requirements. With 15-minutes practice, naive operators are able to perform some complex tasks with a predictor display at accuracy levels previously…

The annotated bibliography contains approximately 71 listings of instructional materials for Head Start teachers serving handicapped children. Teachers using the bibliography are advised to think first in terms of instructional requirements rather than the handicapping condition of the child. Materials are listed in terms of the following…

This report presents the results of an effort to develop a series of program alternatives for consideration by the National Institute of Education (NIE) that correspond to selected program goals developed and presented in an earlier report. The program alternatives draw heavily on the following conclusions that have emerged from ongoing…

Presented in the first of a two volume series is a developmental physical education checklist which provides teachers of trainable mentally retarded students with a permanent and accountable record of pupil progress and needs. The checklist is intended to be used with the accompanying volume of curricular activities in a nongraded enviroment for…