Applied gerontological research of home care service to aged people associates the provision of the service with maintenance of independence, relief of collateral stress, prevention of unnecessary institutionalization and higher contentment. Although these beneficial effects are related to home care, the service is generally regarded as ancillary…

Outlined are the 1973-1974 activities of the Modified Primary Program for Children with Learning Disabilities in Anchorage, Alaska. Discussed is work revolving around the project's eight objectives which include the establishment of assessment procedures to identify potential learning disabled children at an early age, the provision of in-service…

Presented is the final report of Colorado's Child Services Demonstration Project, designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a team staffing program to aid children with specific learning disabilities. The program is described in terms of rationale, replication, children served, staff activities (educational diagnosis, prescriptive programing,…

Presented is the evaluation of a program designed to improve the skills of 2,700 handicapped students (5-16 years old) in the areas of reading and mathematics, using intensive individual and small group instruction and supplementing the special education academic program. Among findings listed are that brain-injured and physically handicapped…

The purpose of the Students and Teachers Develop English Curriculum project (an Elementary-Secondary Education Act Title III program) was to encourage the adoption of innovative curriculum units and instructional strategies in District of Columbia public schools. This booklet describes program background and objectives, methods and procedures of…

Presented is a report on the computerized record keeping, service accounting, and evaluation system developed for the Lehigh Valley Association for Retarded Citizens (LARC). Described is the purpose of the LARC system, its current status, its development, and a variety of activities associated with its use. The introduction (Part I) provides…

This document is the first in a multi-document final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Program in Educational Research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh, September 1972 to August 1974. Part one of this document gives a brief overview of the entire final report, describing the three products emerging from the program (student growth,…

Chapter 1 of this report on the implementation and evaluation of the Experimental Schools Program (ESP) in the Jefferson School District provides a brief geographical, demographic, historical, and economic overview of the district. Chapters 2 and 3 provide data of a historical and developmental nature, as well as data on the overall purposes and…

Describes a multi-media curriculum kit designed to help in teaching English as a second language, especially with French-speaking children. Provides information on the materials in the kit, its underlying principles, how it was field-tested, and comments made about its multi-media approach, technical arrangements, and situational-functional…

The Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired is a project to serve the educational technology needs of the deaf and hard of hearing population, by identifying, adapting, developing, and evaluating the effectiveness of instructional media and materials. (BD)

The authors describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an instructional module designed to facilitate the acquisition by teachers of competencies required to work with mildly handicapped children who have reading problems. (SBH)

A program in Yakima, Washington, offers further proof that children can be immeasurably helped during the earliest years by their potentially best teachers--their parents. (Editor)

To determine the nature of camp for senior citizens, four participant observers (staff members) conducted open-ended interviews with campers at a five-day residential camp in Oregon. Results showed universal satisfaction with the camp experience. Campers valued the wide range of activities, comfortable places to socialize, and staff relations with…

The effectiveness of a teaching skills program for residents at Louisiana State University Medical Center was evaluated among 22 residents in obstetrics and gynecology, medicine, and family medicine who were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. There was greater increase in the scores of the experimental than the control groups.…

The Bureau of Indian Affairs' Chinle Agency is responsible for the education of 3,500 Navajo children; 230 are special education students. A questionnaire revealed that regular teachers felt inadequately prepared to teach the special education student. Project SERT provided 45 hours of graduate level instruction in special education knowledge and…