Intended for county boards of public instruction, school administrators, and special educators in Florida, the booklet provides guidelines for the development of county plans for special programs. The following are specified: criteria and calendar for approval of county plans; basic considerations for program development; supervision and…

Described is a special program in which 75 educable mentally retarded students were mainstreamed into West Philadelphia High School during the 1975-76 school year, after large percentages of such students had failed in previous years to adjust to regular classes. Discussed are the program goals of emotional, social, and economic adjustement, and…

This book is a compilation of papers prepared for a 1975 conference on the delivery of special education services. Because conference participants were from states where problems of distance and low population density complicate the delivery of special education programs, a multifaceted approach was used to address these two critical problems. The…

This document describes the present federal effort on behalf of learning disabled children, beginning with its recent history. It traces the field of learning disabilities as a subspecialty within education from 1963, when a steering committee was appointed to organize a symposium on "The Child with Minimal Brain Dysfunction," through the Learning…

With the help of a consultant and the special teachers, a teacher aide provided language development work in primary and intermediate classes for educable mentally handicapped children. Speech activities and a language development kit were planned. The aide's role differed in different classes, but as the year progressed she worked more with…

The purpose of this study is to describe some of the problems and conditions of the ghetto college student that influence his education. It is based on reading about, observing and talking with these students, their teachers, counselors, and administrators. The black student of today is contrasted with his predecessor. Points of difference between…

Each of the 3 basic units--elementary, secondary, college--of the American educational system was originally intended to be terminal. The knowledge explosion and growing demands of technological society, however, have made graduate and higher professional education necessary for increasing numbers of citizens. As a result, the nation is deprived…

The allocation and expenditure of the Johnson-O'Malley Act funds by the Indian Education Program, State of Nevada, Department of Education is presented in this report for the fiscal year 1967-68. The narrative portion of the report lists the activities of the participating school districts that were funded by Title I - Elementary and Secondary…

The allocation and expenditure of the Johnson-O'Malley Act funds by the Indian Education Program, State of Nevada, Department of Education is presented in this report for the fiscal year 1968-69. The narrative portion of the report lists the activities of the participating school districts that were funded by Title I - Elementary and Secondary…

Concerned with the possible redesign of training incentives developed by the Neighborhood Youth Corp (NYC) for use in its former project so as to enhance program desirability for trainees who have difficulty sustaining training programs, 149 disadvantaged NYC applicants were asked to rank their preferences among ten luxury and basic items as…

This catalog lists and describes regularly scheduled training courses offered by the National Office Training Branch of the Internal Revenue Service. It also describes other courses available to National Office employees. The purpose of the catalog is to help supervisors identify training courses that will meet their employees needs. Employees…

Investigated with a follow-up study of successful reintegration into regular classes in the Toronto system was the success of two special programs for elementary level students who were identified as having learning disabilities presumed to be organic, or whose learning disabilities were primarily emotional or behavioral in origin. The initial…

Provided is an evaluation report of a special education program in New York City designed to improve the reading and arithmetic skills of brain-injured children in mainstream classes (grades 1 through 8). An assessment of the extent to which participants improved in reading and mathematics and a study of the extent to which the actual program…

In a study on the effects of labeling, 78 fourth-grade Ss from a rural school containing an integrated special-education program viewed one of two videotapes that depicted a child demonstrating various kinds of academic and social behavior. (Author/PHR)