These activities are intended to supplement materials for three courses available in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series: Cooking/Food Preparation (CE 024 475), Homemaking and Family Living (CE 024 477), and Nutrition (CE 024 484). These courses for developmentally disabled adults are intended to supplement…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Leisure Time for Adults. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized…

This curriculum resource guide on plastics manufacturing and assembling is one of a series of seventeen specialized curriculum guides for occupational education of the marginal, handicapped, or special needs occupational education student. The guide begins with six behavior clusters that contain a series of forty-two instructional topics designed…

This publication is intended to provide rehabilitation professionals with information about and structure for conducting the client information-gathering process prior to beginning vocational evaluation services. It can be divided into two major parts: (1) presentation of information and a model for structuring the information-gathering process…

This monograph presents articles and materials which examine the relevant theoretical literature pertaining to career counseling services for adults. It reviews alternative ways to deliver career guidance to adults and identifies a set of researchable issues. The two articles in section 1, The Context, address the historical development of people…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relationship of perceptual training and reading achievement; (2) compensatory education for community college students; (3) comparative analysis of…

The two mini reviews and two fact sheets contained in this collection synthesize basic information regarding four issues in rural education: special education, transportation, early childhood education, and reading achievement. Solutions to the special education problems of child identification, parent involvement, delivery of special education…

These proceedings contain the keynote address, four papers, and summaries of four group discussions of the Eleventh Annual Pennsylvania Conference on Postsecondary Occupational Education. The keynote presentation is by Harold "Bud" Hodgkinson, distinguished analyst of current trends and the likely future of social, economic, and…

A project was designed to promote innovation in instructional procedures, curriculum development, collaborative community involvement, and staff development for incremental improvements in a comprehensive K-12 career education program. The fifteen project components focused on (1) applications of basic skills (reading, writing, and math) in…

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO BLIND OR PARTIALLY BLIND CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS ILLUSTRATED BULLETIN. PROCEDURES FOR SCHOOL PLACEMENT, ORGANIZATION OF SPECIAL CLASSES, AND ENROLLMENT STATISTICS ARE DISCUSSED. THE RESOURCE CLASS PROGRAM AND GUIDELINES FOR BOTH REGULAR AND RESOURCE TEACHERS ARE PRESENTED. OTHER SPECIAL…

This report of the White House Conference on Families describes preparations for and the conduct of the National Conference and presents recommendations for action. After introductory material, the report traces in section two the development, adoption and ranking of the conference recommendations. Subsequently, recommendations made in four main…

This document reports phase 1--the data gathering process--of a research project to study vocational preparation and adjustment of handicapped persons in rural areas of the state of Florida. Following a discussion of phase objectives (chapter 1), chapter 2 provides a review of current educational programs offering vocational/occupational training…

The purpose of this guide is to help home economics teachers facilitate the mainstreaming of handicapped students. The first section provides an overview of mainstreaming, including legislation, least restrictive environment, and role of the vocational teacher. It also discuses five areas of educational needs for handicapped students:…

Financial and program information are presented in this five-part annual report summarizing the instructional and administrative activities of Cuesta College and the San Luis Obispo Community College District during l979-80. Part I examines the status of eight areas under the supervision of the Office of Educational Services: curriculum…

One of a series of materials developed by Project APT (Administrators, Parents, and Teachers/Assessment, Programing, and Training), a program designed to foster home/school coordination in educational planning and program implementation for severely mentally retarded and/or multiply handicapped students; the booklet provides five screening tools…