The report presents recommendations from a 1981 meeting sponsored by Unesco (United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization) on the topic of integration of severely/multiply handicapped persons into general and vocational education. A summary of discussion topics addresses terminology; the concept of integration--its advantages and…

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…

The proceedings include, after the keynote address by E.M. Childers and the conference agenda, the following papers: "An Additional Handicap: Visual Perceptual Learning Disabilities of Deaf Children" (Vivienne Ratner); "Minimum Competency Testing" (Carl Williams); "Transitional Planning for Hearing Impaired Students in the Mainstream" (Helen…

Abstracts from presentations given at the 1990 International Congress on Education of the Deaf are organized by 12 major topics: development of language skills; communication; instruction; cognition and learning; educational policies and services; organization and administration of schools and programs; students with special needs; psychosocial…

Materials from Agora 12 demonstrate that the disabled are merely another side of ourselves and training for them is a means of developing and acquiring independence and of becoming absorbed into society. A Foreword outlines the subjects of the three sessions: social solidarity and mental disability; training of the mentally psychologically…