Presented is the final report of a Title VI project that was set up in New Jersey to plan statewide day school facilities which would provide sequential educational programs from nursery through grade 12 for severely handicapped children in four categories: deaf, deaf blind, severely emotionally disturbed, and multiply handicapped. It is explained…

The report summarizes pupil behavioral change data from 176 instructional projects involving handicapped children in New York state. Data are presented for reading achievement, mathematics achievement, and a broad category that encompassed language arts, corrective speech, psychomotor, auditory and visual perceptions, personal hygiene, societal…

Discussed are the support of the State Department of Education, the responsibilities of a program for exceptional children, responsibilities of the local school system, and teacher approval and certification. A definition, types of programs, enrollment and placement, equipment and facilities, and goals are presented for each of the following…

The project report provides information relevant to the status, function, and effect of currently used definitions of handicapped children and the diagnostic methods used. An initial section serves as both an introduction to and summary of the process used during the project, and includes project conclusions. Section II contains analyses of…

Mainstreaming is defined as the conscientious effort to place handicapped children into the least restrictive educational setting that is appropriate for their needs. The primary objective of this process is to provide these children with the most appropriate and effective educational experiences that will enable them to become self-reliant…

A statement of philosophical concepts and statistical data opens this guide to Catholic facilities for exceptional children in the United States. Special facilities and programs with an educational or training concept are listed, by state, for each of the following exceptionalities: the aurally handicapped, the emotionally and/or socially…

The paper describes components of the Cooperative Student Care public school program in which five Texas school districts have joined together to provide educational services in functional academics, vocational training, social skills training, life skills training, and related services for severely/profoundly handicapped students. Four facilities…

The monograph describes the progress that has been made in exceptional child education in Alabama during the last decade and addresses needed areas of improvement. Brief sections focus on the following items: financing special education programs, instructional programing in local education agencies, individualized education plans, diagnosis of…