A question-answer interview with Carl Schleicher, cofounder and technical director of the Center for Preventive Therapy and Rehabilitation, Inc. (CEPTAR) and president and research/development director of Mankind Research Unlimited, Inc. (MRU), Washington, D. C., provides explicit information on recent developments in the rehabilitation field and…

Persons concerned about drug addiction and who seek to help addicts must learn to distinguish between types of addicts. Three cases are reviewed. Those offering help to addicts in need should look beyond simple abstinence to the development of the total person. (Author/PC)

Negative labelling harms by lumping together students with diverse learning problems; instead of diagnosing and treating their problems scientifically, students are stereotyped and relegated to watered down curricula and poor instruction, says one speaker. Other reports on vocational education's response to students special needs are briefly…

An overview depicts the staffing, funding, and general programing at the Vienna Correctional Center, a minimum security institution that has played a vital role in returning to society trained personnel and in lowering the number who return to the Illinois correctional system. (Author/BP)

Symposium papers describe programs which use volunteers to provide rehabilitation technology services. George Winston describes Australia's Technical Aid to the Disabled (TAD), focusing on volunteer recruitment and selection, legal liability, volunteer insurance, advantages and limitations of the volunteer approach, and the TAD organization,…

Compiled for educators, product developers, researchers, librarians, publishers, consultants, and others interested in the educational field, this directory lists 412 periodicals covering education and related topics such as special education, educational technologies, educational media and materials, early childhood development, rehabilitation…

The Drug Abuse Reporting Program (DARP) was initiated in 1969 as a federally supported client reporting system for community-based drug abuse treatment programs. Posttreatment follow-up interviews were conducted with over 4,000 persons from 34 treatment agencies to describe major findings from the drug abuse treatment research of the DARP relating…

The report presents the results of an evaluation of New York's 13 Alcoholism Treatment Centers (ATCs). The goals of the evaluation were to review the role of the ATCs in relation to other alcoholism treatment facilities, to assess their effectiveness and efficiency, and to determine how much money is collected for service provided to patients.…

Describes a counseling program, CREST (Clinical Regional Support Teams), where teams of volunteer couseling practicum students and undergraduate tutors, led by paid counselor education doctoral interns, operate in six communities, providing diagnostic, counseling, tutoring and consultation services for some 200 juvenile delinquents. (Author/HMV)

This paper traces the development of Daytop Village, a therapeutic community for drug addicts begun in 1963. Of special concern is the integration of professional services into the community. The author emphasizes the importance of the role model in such a community, citing the improvements resulting from appointing an ex-addict to the program…

Developed to be a standard reference guide, this glossary contains terms generally associated with program evaluation and terms specifically employed in rehabilitation program evaluation. Target audiences include rehabilitation program evaluation personnel and the consumers of evaluation information such as program administrators, counselors, and…

THE CENTRAL EDUCATION REHABILITATION CENTER IS A COOPERATIVE PROGRAM, JOINTLY SPONSORED BY THE DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND THE WINSTON-SALEM/FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM, FOR JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH AGE MENTAL RETARDATES WHOSE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT FALLS IN THE RANGE OF 60-84. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO OFFER THE STUDENT A SCHOLASTIC…

TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PERSONNEL AND PROCEDURES IN THE CORRECTIONAL PROCESS, EIGHT INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, COMPOSING THE FEDERAL OFFENDERS REHABILITATION PROGRAM, WERE INSTITUTED. THE PROGRAM IS FUNDED PARTIALLY BY GRANTS FROM THE SEVEN STATES INVOLVED AND PARTIALLY BY THE U.S. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION…

This collection of program evaluation studies is designed to help program evaluation staff in state agencies improve their current program education strategies. It alerts staff members to procedures being used in other state agencies, as well as provides further information about the current status of state rehabilitation agency program…