California community colleges enroll nearly 1.3 million students in regular instruction (excluding community services). This represents 11% of all higher education enrollments in the nation, or one out of every eight California adults. Using 1975-76 enrollment statistics, these students are characterized as 49% female, 36.2% married or formerly…

Various existing theoretical, empirical, and policy issues regarding facets of the career behavior of special groups are explored through a series of essays presenting a variety of viewpoints. Special groups are defined as "collectivities of people set apart from the white male majority in terms of race, ethnic group, sex, physical disabilities,…

The project was designed to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of providing faster, more relevant, and more comprehensive diagnostic services to vocational rehabilitation clients with a wide range of disabilities. The improved services were provided by an Experimental Unit (E) and compared with those of a Control Unit (C). The random…

Presented is an audiovisual lending library resource list of nine slide-tape package, 13 videotapes, three 16mm films, and six booklets concerning educational and assessment techniques applicable to children from infancy to adolescence with physical or mental handicaps, learning disabilities, or developmental disabilities. Included for most items…

Designed to provide knowledge about programs and personnel in special education, this directory serves as a resource for The Council for Exceptional Children, provides information for students who are interested in studying the education of exceptional children, assists public and private agencies with information on programs for exceptional…

Major pathogenic sources of mental diseases in children and a classification of these diseases are considered. Contributions include the following: pathogenesis of mental diseases in childhood by Ernest Harms, organ inferiority and psychiatric disorders by Bernard Shulman and Howard Klapman, pathogenesis of neurological disorders by George Gold,…

Included in the proceedings are papers by Hans Mayr on the nature of special education, by Marvin Beekman on realistic goals for the handicapped, by Ernest Willenberg on trends in identification of handicapped students, by Wayne Lance on instructional materials for special education, and by John Kidd on the leadership role of the Council for…

Elements of modified school design for the physically disabled are considered, including mobility, classrooms, science laboratories, applied skill areas, the library, the swimming pool, and sanitary facilities. Also discussed are the cafeteria (food service, seating, and other considerations), recreational areas (play grounds,…

At the end of a 3-year period a diagnostic and resource center and its services were evaluated. Questionnaires, tests, case histories, interviews, and rating scales indicated that the center was effective in creating an awareness of diagnostic needs and programs and in providing educational programs, psychological services, medical services, and…

Included in the report on special education services of Los Angeles schools are chapters on an overview of the special education branch programs; the educationally handicapped, aphasic, and trainable mentally retarded; development centers for handicapped minors; the aurally and visually handicapped; the orthopedically handicapped or other health…

This final report describes a federally-funded project that was designed to provide a model for service delivery to severely physically involved infants and their families living in the highly rural area of West Alabama. The project developed and refined an eclectic treatment approach known as Developmental Physical Management Techniques (DPMT).…

This bulletin contains abstracts of addresses delivered at a two-day conference of State and county rural school supervisors in the Southern States called by the United States Bureau of Education at New Orleans, Louisiana, December 17 and 18, 1928. Abstracts of addresses were prepared from manuscripts submitted by the authors. Section I: Problems…

Among the exceptional children for whom special educational facilities are essential are those who must spend weeks or months or years in a hospital or a sanatorium. Many of these children, while undergoing physical treatment, can very profitably engage in school work. Comparatively little has been written about this phase of educational activity,…

For many years, there have been schools or classes for child patients in hospitals here and there in the United States, but even today this service is far from adequate. It is probable that thousands of hospitalized children are having no schooling at all while they are in these institutions and it is certain that many existing hospital classes do…

This bulletin provides the sixth chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1930-32, which has been published in separate chapters dealing with specific segments of the educational system. This document explores the impact of the economic depression on the education of exceptional children. Special day schools and classes for exceptional…