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Compact, 1971
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities, Physical Disabilities
Cunningham, Peter J.; Mueller, Curt D. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
Analysis of data for 3,266 individuals from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey found that residents of state institutions were more severely retarded and more often multiple disabled than were residents of other types of residential facilities. Relatively more persons with severe impairments resided in state facilities in states where…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities, Placement
Download full textRUMFORD, JOHN C. – 1964
THE NUMBER OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS REHABILITATED THROUGH STATE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AGENCIES INCREASED EACH YEAR FROM 1958 TO 1963. MENTALLY HANDICAPPED REHABILITANTS WERE YOUNGER THAN THOSE WITH OTHER DISABILITIES. THERE WERE MORE MALE THAN FEMALE, AND MORE WHITE THAN NEGRO MENTALLY HANDICAPPED REHABILITANTS, ALTHOUGH THE PROPORTION…
Descriptors: Employment Statistics, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities, Rehabilitation
Lebeis, Roger F.; Lebeis, Sandra – Bureau Memorandum, 1976
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Mental Retardation
New York State Temporary Commission to Study and Investigate the Problems of the Deaf, Albany. – 1971
The fourth annual report on problems of the deaf concentrates in the area of the mentally retarded deaf. Proposed legislation for 1971 is first presented for hearing aids, audiologists and speech pathologists, pre-nursery school education, and a permanent state commission for the deaf. A survey and proposal for the retarded deaf are described as…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Certification, Exceptional Child Services, Hearing Aids
Cronk, George A., Jr. – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children
Geddes, Dolores M.; Burnette, Wanda L. – 1975
The report serves as a systematic collection, analysis, and synthesis of research data, empirical evidence, program information, and various resource materials in the fields of recreation/therapeutic recreation and physical education/adapted physical education for disabled individuals. The report consists of over 20 state of the art reports, each…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Diabetes, Epilepsy, Exceptional Child Education
Newkirk, Diane; And Others – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Definitions, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development, Washington, DC. – 1976
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…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children
Behrmann, E.H., Ed.; Moll, M. Ann Delores, Ed. – 1965
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…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Clinics, Day Schools, Directories
Baum, Douglas L. – 1979
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…
Descriptors: Autism, Contingency Management, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1967
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORAL EDUCATION OF THE DEAF ARE THE WRITTEN RECORD OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND LEXINGTON SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF IN JUNE 1967. VOLUME I CONTAINS THE PAPERS FROM FIVE PLENARY SESSIONS AND SEVERAL SECTIONAL MEETINGS PRESENTED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM 16 COUNTRIES. SUBJECTS…
Descriptors: Administration, Audiology, Audiometric Tests, Auditory Training
Frith, Greg – 1979
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…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Certification, Child Advocacy, Delivery Systems
