Presented are Volumes 1 and 2 of the Indianapolis Comprehensive Special Education Plan as of July 1, 1971. Included are a description of the planning district (a total of 120 schools) and scope of the proposed program. Individually discussed in tabular and narrative form are program plans for the following exceptionalities: speech handicapped,…

Presented are evaluations of eight 1973-75 objectives of the Oregon Model Center for children with learning disabilities. The center was developed to facilitate expansion of the Educational Evaluation Center, a diagnostic-prescriptive center at Oregon College of Education. Among objectives evaluated are: studying the process of the Education…

Presented is the 11th of 12 instructional kits, on program planning, for a performance based teacher education program which was developed by Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for language handicapped children. Included in the kit are directions for preassessment tasks for…

Described are five elementary level resource room models which were developed in a 1-week Michigan summer institute and followup sessions to serve special education students in regular classes. Each of the models is explained in terms of an introduction, description of the resource room setting and components, population identification, program…

The resource manual describes procedures for replication of a 1 year Prescriptive Teaching Workshop project, a Title III educational program designed to maintain the learning disabled elementary school child in the regular classroom with additional special workshop help in order to raise his academic achievement. Evaluation of the student is by a…

Presented is the administrative guide for Project ACTIVE (All Children Totally Involved Exercising) designed to assist school districts or agencies in training educators to organize, conduct, and evaluate individualized-personalized physical education programs for handicapped students, prekindergarten through high school. Chapter I provides the…

The proceedings consider special education programs for the multiply handicapped. Papers describe a case study in community challenge, California trends for services, the multihandicapped deaf child, the process of curriculum development, persistent educational problems, prescriptive teaching as an integration process; the clinician-educator, and…

ADDRESSED TO TEACHERS, THE BOOK EMPHASIZES THE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES OF CHILDREN, ENCOURAGES PROBLEM SOLVING OR DIAGNOSTIC TEACHING, AND MAKES CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS OF CHILDREN WTH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES. THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL IN PROVIDING FOR EACH CHILD'S NEEDS IS DISCUSSED, AND SUGGESTIONS ARE GIVEN FOR MAKING THE CLASSROOM A…

Written primarily for use by persons concerned with the establishment and operation of learning disability programs the text presents a rationale for programing, definitions, examples, and educational rationales for basic learning abilities, and a model school district policy statement. Preliminary screening, psychological evaluation, a…

A foreword by William M. Cruickshank introduces a book designed to provide information on the problems of children with brain dysfunction and to furnish guidelines to habilitation. Subjects discussed are the status of education for these children, preparing the community for a school program, selection of school and preparation of the principal,…