This paper reviews the literature comparing the perceptual strategies of expert and novice sport/skill performers in ball sports to specifically identify where differences exist. The following comparisons were made: (1) experts attend to fewer, somewhat different visual cues than beginners; (2) experts exhibit an ability to utilize advanced…

The monograph offers an overview of the history of health care for children with disabilities. Health goals for the disabled child are considered and a systems model discussed that views health care services as part of the child's total service needs. Routine and specialized health care needs of disabled children are covered, and service areas…

The paper describes Wisconsin's project STRIVE (Sheboygan Area Treatment for Reintegration Through Involvement in Vocation and Education) designed to serve emotionally disturbed juvenile delinquents. In this self-contained program, students receive instruction in academics, career development, appropriate behavior, and peer interaction.…

Multidisciplinary team efforts to address educational problems of emotionally/behaviorally disordered students in rural areas are examined. The rationale for such an approach is considered from a transactional perspective which views behavior as a social phenomenon. The team organization and development goals are explained (including orientation…

The document presents Maine's model for providing substance abuse treatment to the client with mental retardation. Introductory information on retardation and substance abuse is followed by a discussion of this population's unique problems. Services offered in the Mental Retardation Alcoholism project are reviewed, and contracts and cooperative…

In this study of the visual placing response (an extension of the paws or arms on approach to a visual surface), infants extended their arms almost as much to a gray surface as to a patterned one. (Author/CS)

Contends that school librarians, children's librarians in the public library, and the classroom teacher must cooperate if all children are to receive the best education that is possible and suggests ways of achieving this cooperation. (TO)

The author's discussion of the relationship of educational administration to educational planning and research begins by considering the development of administrative theory in general and reviewing the functional, institutional, and social approaches to analyzing educational administration. He briefly describes educational administration in the…

The first part of this document describes the formation of the Education Steering Committee for Basic Skills Coordination by the Education Department, consisting of representatives from six staff offices and "Head Start." The Committee's goals and accomplishments are summarized, including compilation and distribution of a legislative…

This resource manual is designed to provide an orientation to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and vocational education and to create an awareness of the opportunities for developing effective linkages that will be beneficial to both CETA prime sponsors and local education agencies. The first of three major sections contains overviews…

This document discusses the development and implementation of a multiservice center that could offer a variety of human social services in a single location. The paper focuses on seven components of the center's operation: governance, organizational structure, core services, joint funding, joint planning, joint programming, and evaluation. The…