This booklet explains how the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program can provide benefits to children with disabilities. Eligibility for SSI benefits depends on meeting both income and resources limits as well as demonstrating the existence of restrictions in the child's daily life due to physical or mental impairment. Topics addressed…

This digest defines the term "severe disabilities"; lists some typical behavioral characteristics of individuals with severe disabilities, such as self-mutilation and lack of self-care skills; and outlines the educational implications of severe disabilities. The digest stresses the need for a multidisciplinary approach to education; the…

Literacy is examined from the viewpoint of systemic linguistics. It is proposed that "literacy" means intervening in the social processes by working with written language, and this can not be accomplished by an individual alone. "Using written language" can not be isolated from "using language." While sociologically,…

The glossary contains over 2,000 words introduced in the 28 units of the "Beginning Pashto" and "Intermediate Pashto" instructional series and replaces the original glossary (ED 323 768). Listings are alphabetical by Pashto orthography, and consist of the Pashto word, phonetic transcription, English equivalent, form class, gender (when…

A meeting was held to explore critical issues and problems related to subject access to online bibliographic records of monographic literature. The 23 researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who attended represented national and research libraries, bibliographic utilities, database vendors, library schools, indexing and abstracting services,…

This bilingual glossary of the biological/life sciences is one in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in their native Vietnamese, but not in English, to meet graduation requirements. Major biological science concepts and definitions of important and commonly used terms are provided, first in Vietnamese and then in…

In; the past 3 years there has been a resurgence of interest in learning styles as applied to education generally and to professions education in particular. For all this activity there are difficulties preventing significant progress. Chief among these is the bewildering confusion of definitions surrounding learning style conceptualization, and…

Author attempted to further examine the sphere concept, introduced by R. A. Smith in 1970, in relation to its "utility for thinking about problems of aesthetic education" and aesthetic welfare. (Author/RK)

The paper attempts to clarify the dynamics of child abuse, and to suggest approaches to primary prevention. (Author/SB)

Author felt that the problems facing the school administrator have not been discussed adequately and suggested that administration should be treated as an art rather than a science. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the characteristics of the educative process of public schools in an attempt to disprove that they are neutral vis-a-vis the subject of religion. (Author/RK)

Leadership is cast in many roles and, thus, leadership educators may be found in a variety of venues, including youth club organizers, junior high and high school teachers, college professors, student program directors in higher education, community development professionals, military trainers, religious groups, human resource development…

Although the label "learning disabled child" has no clear definition the child so labeled most probably needs to acquire language competency. (Author/CS)

This article extends the work in the area of academic achievement among adolescents through an examination of the role clique membership plays in determining grades students receive. (Author/RK)

Author examined fraudulent views of accountability and then attempted to define the concept as well as its goals. (RK)