The Teletutorial Project developed by the Council of Adult Education Victoria, Australia, provides educational opportunities for isolated groups through a telephone linkup system, with tutors and their groups communicating over large distances. The program and teaching methods are described, with personalization and mutual exchange emphasized. (LH)

Author looked at the innovatory work arising out of the Ford T Project. (Editor/RK)

Describes a highly effective reading program that focuses on learning strategies and the thinking process. (RB)

School counselors may effectively contribute to the psychological education of children by helping teachers plan and implement affective guidance activities in the classroom. This article describes the author's efforts using role-playing. (Author/HMV)

The Sea Beside Us for the Special Child is a project in Delaware with three goals: providing outdoor and overnight experiences for handicapped children; introducing these students to beach, bay, and marsh environments; and increasing the number of special education teachers incorporating seashore studies in their teaching curriculum. (LS)

This proceedings contains summaries, handouts, or full papers of presentations. Sample titles and presentors include the following: "Project S.E.R.T. Special Education Training for Regular Educators of Native-Americans" (C. Foster); "Effect of Inservice Education Models on Team Problem-Solving" (K. Bunch and A. Bunch);…

Describes Simuread, a computer program which is designed to aid in reading instruction, and illustrates its research applications. (RB)

Described is an interdisciplinary mainstreaming program for individualizing instruction for secondary learning disabled students, utilizing resource facilities in grades 7-9 in eight separate centers throughout Franklin County, Missouri. Aspects of this program--such as the developmental and by-pass strategies of instruction employed to help…

A diagnostic-prescriptive approach to moral education, based on the work of Piaget and Kohlberg, is presented. The approach is designed to help analyze a child's ability in a special area, compare achievement with some established list of sequenced skills, and plan lessons to help individual students attain the next higher level of accomplishment.…

Describes a successful reading program in New York which is designed to improve the reading skills of migrant children. (RB)

An elementary school in Texas has developed a program of reading instruction that immediately provides early readers with ample reading opportunities and materials rather than constraining them with "reading readiness" assessment. Initially, the absence of sufficient reinforcement material in the basal readers required increased amounts of reading…

The paper describes the background and development of The Residential Facilities Worker Training Program, a 2-year degree program at Seattle Community College (Washington) to train staff persons to work in community based residential settings with developmentally disabled children, adolescents, and adults. Need for the program is discussed,…

Effective academic planning which considers the child's behaviors and skills can be used to manage the inappropriate behaviors of emotionally handicapped children. Academic planning is especially effective when used in combination with behavioral management techniques. Using the child's behavior to determine appropriate tasks and to determine the…