The trainer's manual offers a sampling of workshop materials to assist the regular classroom teacher in the process of screening, identification, referral, and assessment of handicapped students. Following an introduction are sections with information, sample handouts, forms, and checklists on the following topics (sample subtopics in…

A study was conducted to compare the relative importance of several different variables from different theoretical perspectives in explaining how children understood the advertising on commercial television. Sixty-seven first and third grade students were interviewed individually to assess their current stage of logical operations and role taking,…

The tradition of reading aloud to children has great intrinsic value and should be continued as part of the language arts program. Five major reasons for reading aloud to children can be gleaned from recent linguistic and psychological research and from folklore and intuition: (1) It allows the modeling of syntactic and phonemic language patterns,…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, one of a series of 18, provides the CDA intern with the knowledge and skills necessary for meeting the developmental levels and needs of individual children. Early sections stipulate the module's competency-based objectives, define terms, and suggest procedures by which trainees can evaluate…

This manual provides resource information for state staff in planning, implementing, and evaluating vocational education programs and services for special needs students. Part 1 focuses on development of vocational education programs for youth and adults with academic or economic handicaps which prevent them from succeeding in regular vocational…

IN CONJUCTION WITH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTE AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY, A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND SCHOOL PERSONNEL IN THE PROVISION OF EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ANGLO, SPANISH-AMERICAN AND INDIAN CHILDREN IN AZTEC AND TULAROSA, NEW MEXICO. THE MAJOR QUESTIONS…

AN AUDIOVISUAL FILM WAS PRODUCED TO HELP RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS ESTABLISH THEIR RELIABILITY OF JUDGMENTS OF MISARTICULATIONS IN CHILDREN'S SPEECH. THE FINAL FILM SCRIPT WAS PREPARED AFTER A PRELIMINARY STUDY HAD BEEN EVALUATED BY PANELS OF BOTH TRAINED AND UNTRAINED LISTENERS. SIX CHILDREN, BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 AND 13, WHOSE MISARTICULATION…

The final of three volumes on Project PRISM, a program to help middle school teachers meet the needs of gifted and talented children in their classes without removing them from the mainstream, lists resources on the education of gifted and talented children. Materials are organized according to four basic types: books, periodicals, curriculum aids…

This guidebook is intended to provide resource information needed to develop comprehensive vocational education for handicapped students in rural areas as well as to synthesize suggestions from successful experiences in special vocational education programs currently in existence. The guidebook provides information on the following laws and…

A study of identity development was carried out in Bristol, England, with Asian, West Indian, and indigenous British adolescents. Ethnic and gender differences in patterns of identification conflict with others were found between minority group boys and girls. Both sexes from both minority groups, however, had substantial identification conflicts…

The paper focuses on policy issues for handicapped students whose parents (primarily military) are employed by the federal government overseas. Chapter I describes three types of federally funded programs: overseas dependents schools, tuition free schooling (where low student populations do not justify the operation of federally funded schools),…

As a result of the busing plan in effect in Jefferson County (Kentucky), minority children are bused over a longer period than whites and minority children are bused out of their local communities more often than whites. In order to assess possible effects of these different busing patterns, a sample of 464 white and minority middle and high…

Three topics were discussed at this conference: (1) the supply and identification of high level talent; (2) problems of evaluation in general education; and (3) the development of tests for the measurement of non-intellectural functions. Tony Oxtoby and John T. Dailey discussed military and civilian personnel research on talent identification and…

Designed for students of speech pathology and audiology and for practicing clinicians, the text considers the nature of the articulation process, criteria for diagnosis, and classification and etiology of disorders. Also discussed are phonetic characteristics, including phonemic errors and configurational and contextual defects; and functional…

Outlined in this report developed at Goteborgs University are the construction and administering details for a test designed to measure passive proficiency in pronunciation of English as a second language. The phonemic choice, rhythm and intonation, and phonetic analysis factors of pronunciation are evaluated. A statistical correlation of the…