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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
Reporting the second in a series of regional fact-finding committee hearings held across the United States, this document includes testimony from social service organizations and state offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Testimony from clients and representatives of these agencies documents efforts to ameliorate problems…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, American Indians, Battered Women
Reynolds, Maynard C.; Birch, Jack W. – 1982
The introductory text focuses on special education in the mainstream with two major themes: (1) the central and joint responsibility of teacher, parent, and principal; and (2) the primary need to limit the occurrence and magnitude of educational problems in handicapped children. The book's approach includes emphasizing processes that blend special…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Trends, Emotional Disturbances
Kearns, Lola H., Ed.; And Others – 1981
The 23 papers were written by staff and consultants of the Arts in Special Education Project of Pennsylvania, a program to provide assistance to educators in the development of appropriate quality arts programing for handicapped students. After two overview papers, the papers are grouped by category--art, dance, drama, and music. Papers have the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Blindness, Cognitive Development, Creative Development
Center for Occupational Research and Development, Inc., Waco, TX. – 1981
This instructor's resource guide is designed to accompany the student modules in the occupational subject area of agriculture/agribusiness. The guide defines safety and health training needs in the various occupations; describes the modules and their use; and encourages instructors to consider the safety and health needs of all students. In…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Certification
Center for Occupational Research and Development, Inc., Waco, TX. – 1981
This instructor's resource guide is designed to accompany the student modules in the occupational subject area of business and office education. The guide defines safety and health training needs in the various occupations; describes the modules and their use; and encourages instructors to consider the safety and health needs of all students. In…
Descriptors: Business Education, Certification, Health Education, Hearing Impairments
Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC. – 1979
This handbook for the selective placement of persons with physical and mental handicaps in federal civil service employment consists of eleven sections. Topics covered in section 1 include affirmative action, nondiscrimination, reasonable accomodation, definition of the term handicapped, acceptable terminology, and program implementation. Section…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Affirmative Action, Agency Cooperation
State Univ. of New York, Albany. – 1978
General guidelines for faculty members and teaching assistants are presented to aid them in taking whatever steps are necessary to reasonably accommodate students with disabilities. The difference between a disability and a handicap is explained, and the importance of a positive and helping attitude is stressed. Major disabilities are discussed…
Descriptors: Architectural Barriers, College Students, Exceptional Persons, Federal Legislation
Association of Coll. and Research Libraries, Chicago, IL. Junior Coll. Libraries Section. – 1978
This assessment package was designed to facilitate the identification and appraisal of the learning resources and services that are provided to handicapped and other disadvantaged students at two-year colleges. The instrument helps evaluate services available to the following student populations: blind and partially sighted students; deaf and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Check Lists, Community Colleges, Deafness
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Washington, DC. Information and Research Utilization Center. – 1977
Intended as a resource guide for persons who include such subjects as arts, crafts, dance, and music in programs for the handicapped, resources are listed for printed materials, audiovisual materials, resource persons and organizations, and material and equipment suppliers. Brief literature reviews sum up the state of the art in the specific art…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art Therapy, Audiovisual Aids, Bibliotherapy
Killalea Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1978
This report is drawn from a 1978-79 survey of 6,069 school districts in 50 States regarding their compliance with Federal desegregation and equal education laws. The following areas are considered: (1) pupils identified as requiring special education services but not currently enrolled; (2) State summaries of unserved students in special…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Civil Rights Legislation, Classroom Desegregation, Compliance (Legal)
Aaronson, May; And Others – 1980
The usefulness of the Preschool Preposition Test (PPT) as a cognitive screening and diagnostic tool for handicapped children is demonstrated through results of eight independent studies. The subjects were 354 children and youths, aged two to 20 years, with various handicaps: mentally retarded, autistic-like, moderately emotionally disturbed,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Cognitive Tests, Disabilities
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MASON, JOSEPH A.; AND OTHERS – 1968
BASED ON THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA, THE DIRECTORY PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LOCATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSES ON OR WITHIN COMMUTING DISTANCE (30 MILES) OF MOST U.S. MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, ALASKA, HAWAII, THE CANAL ZONE, THE ATLANTIC AREAS, THE PACIFIC AREAS, AND THE EUROPEAN AREA. AN INDEX BY STATE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Children, Deafness
Iverson, Maynard J.; Davis, Paul D. – 1980
A study determined effective inservice education methods to reduce the apprehension of experienced vocational education teachers regarding instruction of handicapped students. In order to guide the study, three null hypotheses were generated and tested. A three-group, randomized, pre- and post-test experimental design was utilized. Thirty teachers…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities
LOVE, HAROLD D. – 1967
INTENDED FOR UNDERGRADUATES AND BEGINNING GRADUATE STUDENTS, THE TEXT INTRODUCES THE KINDS OF EXCEPTIONALITY, INCIDENCE FIGURES, AND IDENTIFICATION PROCEDURES. THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE ALSO CONSIDERED--(1) THE MENTALLY RETARDED, (2) THE GIFTED, (3) THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED, (4) SPEECH PROBLEMS, (5) THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING, (6)…
Descriptors: Blindness, Children, Deafness, Educational Needs
Wallace, J. G. – 1965
Two sections in this survey of research on conceptualization are devoted to "Recent Conceptual Studies in the Behaviourist Mould" and "Main Stream of Ontogenetic Studies of Conceptualization." Under Section I, topics investigated are behaviourist approaches to the conceptual process, conceptual problems, and developmental…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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