The 1975 school status of 696 students enrolled in Toronto special education (nonmedical related) programs in 1970 was examined to determine whether special education was effective in returning children to regular classes. Data indicated that of the 49 percent of the students remaining in the Toronto school system, 32 percent had returned to…

AN EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING PROGRAM STUDIED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NEW METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AND TEACHING PERCEPTUALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISORDERS. SUBJECTS WERE SELECTED BY THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA--SPECIFIC LEARNING DEFICITS, PERCEPTUAL DEFICITS, GENERAL COORDINATION DEFICITS, HYPERKINESIS, IMPULSIVITY, EMOTIONAL LIBILITY, SHORT…

The purposes of the survey conducted of the special education classes in Scarborough, Ontario were to provide information describing academic achievement and personal and social adjustment of students in special classes, and to investigate parents' attitudes toward special class programs. Of the 789 students enrolled in 11 kinds of special…

Twenty-nine 10-year-old educable mentally retarded Ss in a resource room program were matched on age, intelligence and reading level (preprimer) with 41 special class controls to determine the efficacy of the resource room as an alternative to special classes. (MC)

Discussed in connection with Project PRIME (Programmed Reentry into Mainstream Education) is the need for educational research to assess the comparative efficacy of three instructional settings (regular resource, and self-contained special education classes) for providing services to handicapped children. It is explained that data on the classroom…

Selected student variables that are indicators of a successful secondary program for the educable mentally retarded were compared and evaluated on the basis of descriptive data for 4,425 students in the 233 classes in Alabama and interviews with 30 former students. Results from a questionnaire sent to high schools revealed data such as the…

Compared is the post high school adjustment of graduates of two types of special education programs for the educable mentally handicapped: a self-contained, vocationally oriented program separate from general education (School A) and a program integrated into the general high school, where job experience is concurrent with general education and…

Presented is the complete report from an evaluation of special education services in Alberta, Canada (1975-1976). The first section details the relationships between predictor variables (such as pupil density; annual per pupil expenditure, and mean salary of teaching and administrative staff) and the proportion of students served. Reviewed in the…

The second of two volumes presents descriptive and statistical data collected in a study to determine the impact of the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) on special programs for exceptional children in 10 school districts and program development in five institutions. Case studies of the 10 districts give county code designation, date of…

Presented is an evaluation of a program in seven schools in New York City which provided 19 special classes for 174 doubly handicapped students--mentally retarded and severely physically handicapped--ranging in age from 5 to 21 years old. Among findings listed are that the 30 higher functioning Ss who were given the Wide Range Achievement Test did…

A program was introduced in 1965 to provide individualized physical education for students in grades 1 through 12 who could not participate in regular physical education programs. Twenty-one schools and 1,640 students with a variety of conditions participated. The most frequent limitations of participants were low physical fitness, overweight, and…

Described in volumes 1 and 2 are the methodology, conclusions, and recommendations of a study to determine the impact of the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) on special programs for exceptional children in 10 school districts and on educational program development in five residential institutions. Noted are aspects of the FEFP Act (1973)…

IN 1959, THE TWO EXISTING SPECIAL CLASSES FOR BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY WERE EVALUATED BY OBSERVATIONS, EXAMINATION OF THE STUDENTS' MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL RECORDS, AND INTERVIEWS WITH TEACHERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHIATRISTS, AND SPEECH AND OTHER SPECIALISTS. RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE IN AN INTERIM REPORT. A LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS…

A Title III project provided a special education diagnostic and resource center designed to meet educational needs of the estimated 3.5% of severely handicapped children not reached in the Greater Wichita area. A staff of three coordinators, two psychologists, two social workers, four subject area consultants, and a peripatologist processed 990…