Despite decades of advocacy, most students with developmental disabilities continue to spend the majority of the school day in self-contained special education classrooms. However, there is tremendous variability of educational placement across the United States. Identification of geographic trends that explain this variability could provide…

SIGNIFICANT FACTORS INVOLVED IN LEARNING AND ADJUSTMENT OF RETARDED CHILDREN IN SPECIAL CLASSES AS COMPARED WITH THOSE REMAINING IN REGULAR CLASSROOMS WERE ASSESSED. EACH GROUP WAS EVALUATED WITH INSTRUMENTS TESTING INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY, SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENTS, SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY, AND ADJUSTMENT TO THEIR TEACHERS AND PEER GROUPS. IT WAS FOUND THAT…

Presented are texts of Ohio state laws regarding the provision and funding of special educational programs, school attendance, and related issues. Laws regarding special educational programs deal with such topics as classes and training of teachers for the handicapped, inspection of classes, programs for the gifted, definition of handicapped…

Briefly described are educational and medical clinical services and evaluation procedures for hearing impaired, visually impaired, and deaf-blind children in Ohio. The services are said to assess individual student needs and to facilitate educational placement and programing in special education classes or at state schools for the blind or the…

A definition of learning disorders, medical observations, diagnostic terms, the role of medication, and psychological implications and descriptions are provided. The philosophy and variations of educational programs for the neurologically handicapped are described; facets of the special class program considered are the instructional program,…

The historical development of programs for orthopedically handicapped children, class units and hospital classes approved during 1967-68, and the number of therapy units established are presented. Tables give data on program population: enrollment for years 1962-68, percent of handicaps enrolled, and IQ distributions. Aspects of occupational…

Although in the United States there are many thousands of crippled children, probably as many as there are of deaf and blind, little attention has been given them as a class. While special provision for the deaf and blind children is made in all States and for feeble-minded and incorrigible children in most of the States, few States make any…

Laws of Ohio dealing with special education for handicapped and gifted children are presented in the administrative areas of programs, school foundation program, attendance, and related laws. (LE)

The philosophy of special education for the educable mentally handicapped is defined by the Hamilton County (Ohio) school system; state standards for special units for the educable are detailed in the areas of general organization, eligibility, class size and age range, housing and equipment and materials, program, and teacher qualification.…