The extra expenditures for students requiring special attention in public schools, e.g., the financially disadvantaged and the culturally different, are estimated. Also provided are cost estimates for professional help given to the mentally gifted and the handicapped students (speech impaired, mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, deaf, and…

Three presentations described the relation of media implosion to delivery of educational services to deaf-blind multihandicapped children, a curriculum for profoundly retarded children in development centers, and a device for screening hearing in high risk newborns and infants, respectively. In proposing an interdisciplinary approach to delivery…

The study assessed the feasibility of training parents to ameliorate their children's learning disabilities in the area of reading. Parents were instructed in teaching their own children. Differences in gain scores and learning rate on the reading instruments tested the hypotheses of efficacy of parental help for 26 second graders. Treatment…

Included are papers, some in abridged or abstract form, on the following areas: 15 on the gifted; seven each on mental retardation and on information services; five each on the disadvantaged, teacher education, and general concerns; four on behavioral disorders; three each on visual impairment, learning disabilities, the homebound and…

This conference report of the second annual meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics contains 38 articles grouped under the following headings: (1) technology and multimedia instruction, (2) theory of translation, (3) the didactics of foreign language instruction, (4) a description of present-day language and linguistics, (5)…

The reports from this conference deal with the sources, manifestations, and influences of sports and physical education over time, geography, and cultures. Written in a non-technical manner, the twenty-eight articles deal with the relationship of sports to (among others) politics, art, dance, mythology, religion, economics, sociology, and…

This "Instructor's Manual" is designed for those responsible for guiding teacher trainees through modules III on "Parent Involvement in the Education of Young Handicapped Children: Parents as Partners: Home-School Plans." The responsibilities of the instructor are defined. The instructor's role is to guide the group activities…

Buildings and the larger environment can both make a positive contribution to the well-being, education, and development of mentally handicapped children. Because of the wide variety of handicaps experienced by children and different community opinions and practices, standard solutions are not recommended. Rather, an examination is made of the…

A rationale and procedures are presented for occupational therapy evaluation of the preschooler whose problems suggest dyspraxia. Two evaluative domains are examined: sensory processing (assessment of tactile, proprioceptive, vestibular, auditory and visual functions) and praxis (ideation, motor planning and execution). Procedures include…

A plan is described for effective parent involvement in occupational therapy for the child with sensory integrative dysfunction. Consideration is given to levels of parent-child interaction and parents' ability to accept the child's difficulties. Purposes of parental participation are outlined and a model for evaluation and intervention is…

Presents summaries of research studies related to instructional computer use: three compare word processed and handwritten text of students with and without learning disabilities; one compares student retrieval skills using print and electronic encyclopedias; and one examines computer use by math and science teachers via data from a U.S. national…

Professions that provide services to people with disabilities typically do so from a clinical perspective. Yet in areas such as education and residential policy, clinical judgment is limited by the influences of nonclinical forces, such as economics, bureaucratic exigency, politics, service traditions, and societal prejudice. (Author/BJV)

This book addresses the negative consequences of labeling and separating education for students with "disabilities," the cultural biases inherent in the way that we view children's learning difficulties, the social construction of disability, the commercialization of special education, and related issues. The theme that unifies the chapters is…

This book provides a biography of Elizabeth Farrell (1870-1932), whose work for the education of children with disabilities in New York City in the early 1900s was instrumental in the development of special education. Following an introductory chapter, chapters cover the following aspects of her life; (1) her background; (2) New York City, the…

At least 20 percent of students in the Baltimore City Public Schools and other large urban districts are "invisible dyslexics" (children whose academic futures are doomed because their problems in learning to read are diagnosed too late and treated too little or not diagnosed and treated at all). Delay in early diagnosis and treatment…