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, Sexuality. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to…

Designed as supplemental material to on-going instruction in the vocational program, this teacher's manual to the Allied Health series is intended to accompany three dictionary booklets (available as CE 024 407-409) for use by handicapped students to help them master the core vocabulary taught in the trade. Information presented in the manual…

This report discusses a project to provide a comprehensive pre-service and inservice training program for adult basic education (ABE) teachers and paraprofessionals throughout Kentucky. It is arranged by the project's six components. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on two activities of the adult learning disabilities teacher training component: Adult…

This document provides a "blueprint for action," based on the findings of Pathways to Employment II, a national meeting designed to identify local, state, and national strategies for improving the opportunities available to disabled youth for education, training, and employment. Following a statement of the problem, and a summary of the…

The first of two documents designed to provide training for paraprofessionals working with moderately and severely/profoundly handicapped students, the sourcebook provides information on preservice and inservice education. Narrative is presented and activities are described for the following preservice topics (sample subtopics in parentheses):…

The second of two documents designed for training paraprofessionals to work with moderately and severely/profoundly handicapped students, the teacher's guide presents information on preservice and inservice education. Preservice information to be read by the paraprofessional touches on the following topics (sample subtopics in parentheses):…

A COMPILATION OF 62 READINGS, THE BOOK CONSIDERS THE GUIDANCE OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN. AN OVERVIEW SECTION PRESENTS PAPERS DEALING WITH SELF-CONCEPT, VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, AND THE GUIDANCE COUNSELOR. INCLUDED IN A SECTION ON GIFTED CHILDREN ARE ARTICLES ABOUT CAREER REQUIREMENTS OF GIFTED CHILDREN AND PARENTS,…

WRITTEN FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE SOCIOLOGIST OR SOCIAL SCIENTIST, THIS BOOK REPORTS DATA OBTAINED FROM STATISTICAL RESEARCH ON MENTAL RETARDATES. ITS CHIEF PURPOSE IS THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED AND PROVISIONS MADE FOR THEM IN THE UNITED STATES. DISCUSSION OF THE GENERAL CONDITION COVERS DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION, ETIOLOGY,…

INTENDED FOR TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS OF BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN, THE HANDBOOK DESCRIBES THE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND THE THEORETICAL BASES FOR THE PROGRAM IN NEW YORK CITY. AFTER A DESCRIPTION OF EIGHT CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE DISORGANIZATION COMMON TO ALL BRAIN INJURED CHILDREN, THERE IS A DISCUSSION OF SCREENING AND PLACEMENT PROCEDURES…

THE PROCEEDINGS FROM THE 1967 INTERNATIONAL CONVOCATION ON LEARNING DISABILITIES INCLUDE ARTICLES IN THREE AREAS--23 ON ETIOLOGY AND IDENTIFICATION, 14 ON EDUCATION, HABILITATION, AND REMEDIATION, AND 11 ON REHABILITATION AND INNOVATION. TOPICS INCLUDE LANGUAGE, READING AND COMMUNICATION DISABILITIES, BHEAVIOR, AUDITORY AND VISUAL PERCEPTION,…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: the role of visual pattern perception in the development of children's reading skills; a comparison of students' silent reading, oral reading, and listening comprehension; semantic…

The Classroom Centers for Multiple Handicapped Children were designed to provide profoundly retarded children with instructional programs meeting individual needs. In addition to the educational and training components of the program, speech and physical therapy services were also included. Seven classroom centers served approximately 56 children…

THIS BULLETIN INCLUDES INFORMATION FOR THE INITIATION, ORGANIZATION, AND OPERATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN TEXAS. PROGRAMS DESCRIBED ARE FOR THE BLIND, PARTIALLY SIGHTED, PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, HOMEBOUND OR HOSPITALIZED, MINIMALLY BRAIN-INJURED, DEAF AND SEVERELY HARD OF HEARING, EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, TRAINABLE MENTALLY…

Presents 11 articles devoted to the application of primary prevention tactics and strategies in elementary and secondary school systems. Describes specific programs and reviews research related to positive student development and the prevention of emotional and learning problems. Discusses the role of counselors, teachers, and other professional…

Captioning--a visual representation of the audio portion of videotape material--enables deaf learners to have full access to materials used in the classroom. With an ever-expanding pool of captioning agencies providing a wider array of options, including modem technology, and because of the greater availability of other low-cost captioning…