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Torres, Marcia; And Others – 1990
The evaluation report describes the Student Training at Retail Stores (STARS) Project in New York City. The program's mission was to develop and implement a three-semester program of intense occupational, vocational, and career education to enhance job skills and secure retail sales jobs for high school juniors with mild learning, speech,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Distributive Education, Education Work Relationship, Emotional Disturbances
Sorenson, Sharon – 1991
This collection of 34 lessons offers practical suggestions for addressing the needs of special students in the English/language arts classroom at both the elementary and secondary levels. Concentration is primarily on students with learning disabilities or limited English proficiency. The collection includes an activities chart which indicates the…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Churchill Forum, 1986
This collection of four newsletters focuses on abilities and problems of and services for learning disabled persons. Major articles have the following titles and authors: "From Service Receiver to Service Provider: The Learning Disabled Young Adult Moves into the Work World" (A. Roffman); "Our Children's Future in the Workplace" (F. Yauch);…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Child Rearing, College Preparation
Alberta Social Services and Community Health, Edmonton. – 1981
This five-part manual is concerned with recreational activities for disabled persons. The first part defines four terms commonly used in reference to the disabled--impairment, disability, handicap, and inconvenience. Reasons for including the disabled in recreational activities and for developing activities for the disabled, discussed in the…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Athletics, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Del-Val, Patricia B.; And Others – 1981
The curriculum guide presents information on a six unit program designed to help nonhandicapped fourth graders understand handicaps and accept children with handicaps. Each session lists cognitive and affective objectives for the students, materials needed for the lesson, and the sequence of the activity or activities. The initial session uses…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Curriculum Guides, Deafness
Florida State Postsecondary Education Commission, Tallahassee. – 1986
This third supplement to the Florida master plan for postsecondary education considers resources and barriers to education for disabled students and offers 21 recommendations. To provide a foundation to discuss the needs of disabled students, characteristics of the following major functional impairments are described: hearing impairment, learning…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), College Planning, College Students
Bakke, Thomas W. – 1984
Second in a series of six monographs on the use of new technologies in the instruction of learning disabled students, the paper offers a descriptive overview of new technologies. Topics addressed include the following: (1) techniques for sharing computer resources (including aspects of networking, sharing information through databases, and the use…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Speech, Computer Assisted Instruction
Kim, Byong Won, Ed. – 1985
Cosponsored by Hanyang University as a demonstration of its founding philosophy, "love in deed and truth," this conference focused on literacy and languages from cross-cultural and instructional perspectives. The papers selected for this yearbook and their authors are as follows: (1) "Designing Tasks for Slow Learners in L2"…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Foster, Herbert L., Ed. – Forum, 1985
Three issues of the journal for 1985 focus on issues related to special education in New York. The winter issue centers on educating low incidence handicapped children in New York City. Articles address such aspects as special education effectiveness, occupational training centers, centers for multiply handicapped students, hospital schools, early…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Curriculum, Deafness, Disabilities
Mangrum, Charles T., II, Ed.; Strichart, Stephen S., Ed. – 1985
A guide to 279 college and universities offering full-service programs for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities (LDs) is presented. An introductory section discusses what LDs are, what college students with LDs are like, why colleges began providing programs for these students, admissions and support after admission, and how high…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Accessibility (for Disabled), Ancillary School Services, College Admission
Benmaman, Virginia; Schenck, Susan J. – 1986
This 3-year research project sought to determine whether language differences between Gullah-influenced and English speaking students in Charleston County (South Carolina) influenced test performance and subsequent interpretation of test results. A sample population of 503 educable mentally handicapped, learning disabled, and regular students…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Churchill Forum, 1987
The two newsletter issues presented in this document contain articles with the following titles and authors: "'My Kids Could Never Do That': Adapting Software for the Learning Disabled Student" by Susan Jo Russell; "Enriching Science and Math Instruction with Technology: The Voyage of the Mimi" (about an integrated set of video, computer, and…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Computer Uses in Education, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education
Johnson, Calvin – 1987
This report provides an abstracted review of 75 available sources on the subject of adult learning problems, disabilities, development, and solutions in adult education. Documents from many levels of education are included; most of the works cited are unpublished reports, papers, and dissertations. Entries are arranged in chronological order…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1985
A federally funded research project investigated the relationship between academic learning time (ALT) and achievement of 43 educable mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, and learning-disabled students, aged 7-13, in grades 1-5. The project's final report, titled "An Analysis of the Impact of Instructional Time within Different Service…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Classroom Techniques, Delivery Systems
Weiss, Rhonda; And Others – 1987
Intended for parents, the guide provides an introduction to learning disabilities, the programs and services available to the learning disabled child through the public schools, the rights of parent and child, as well as suggestions for helping and advocating for the child. The first chapter considers characteristics of learning disabilities,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Child Advocacy, Decision Making, Due Process
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