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Download full textThurston, Linda P.; White, Warren J. – 1990
This paper describes the activities of 50 rural special education teachers in providing life survival skills education to secondary learning disabled and behaviorally disturbed students as part of a special education inservice program at a land grant university. The program offered a yearlong, 9 credit hour, sequence of courses, which included…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Employment Potential, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education
McIntosh, Dean K.; Raymond, Gail I. – 1989
Rural school districts often have limited numbers of special educators available, limited financial resources, and schools with very small, isolated populations. These limitations reveal the need for regular educators in the schools to gain skills needed for diagnosis and remediation of mildly handicapped students. This paper suggests utilizing…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Handicap Identification
Carnine, Douglas W. – 1987
This report summarizes a series of eight research studies related to the use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) with mildly handicapped students at the junior high or high school level. Through videodisc and CAI the studies isolated the effects of the following design variables: (1) review cycles; (2) size of teaching sets; (3) explicit…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Drills (Practice), Educational Technology, Instructional Design
McGlothlin, Jane – 1987
Based on the experiences of an administrator of a small Arizona school district, the paper addresses significant forces within special education in the past decade and future challenges. Past forces included: a drive for services by parents and others who defined handicapped children by their particular defects, thus forcing a categorical approach…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Needs, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Home Economics Education. – 1985
The 2-part student workbook for mainstreamed learning and mentally disabled high school students contains 12 units intended to provide supplementary instruction in the Contemporary Parenting Choices Curriculum in the home economics class. This unit, the third in the Child Care part of the workbook, focuses on understanding parenting skills and…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Family Problems
Institute for the Study of Family, Work, and Community, Berkeley, CA. – 1987
Presented are the findings of a study designed to identify and describe vocational education programs that have been successful in mainstreaming mildly handicapped students (educable mentally retarded, learning disabled, and mildly emotionally disturbed). The structural elements of 30 exemplary programs in six states are described and an optimal…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mainstreaming
Halpern, Andrew S. – 1987
The 3-year Secondary Level Teacher Training Program is intended to train special education teachers for students with mild disabilities at the middle and high school levels. The program included both certification and masters degree components and was structured to encourage students to obtain both. Results of a survey of Oregon secondary special…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Higher Education, Mild Disabilities, Practicums
George-Nichols, Nancy; And Others – 1982
The guide is intended to provide information on appropriate programing for elementary and secondary pupils with either perceptual/communicative or emotional/behavioral disorders. The guide, which is patterned after regular education objectives, offers comprehensive task analysis in four content areas (subtopics in parentheses): (1) readiness…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1988
Social validity data on different student-teacher ratios were collected from 28 administrators, 31 special education teachers, and 50 parents of students in special education programs. Respondents indicated their opinions about optimal student-teacher ratios for student learning and teacher instruction, with administrators generally expressing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Class Size
Thurlow, Martha L.; And Others – 1988
The study examined the impact of varying student-teacher ratios on task completion and success, student instructional time, and quality of instruction in special education classes for mildly handicapped students. Subjects were 139 mainstreamed elementary students (grades 1-6), most of whom were categorically labeled as learning disabled (n=114).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Elementary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Manzone, Christine – 1987
The ability of the special education student to make a smooth transition into the adult world depends upon a number of criteria, beginning with the support and assistance of family, friends, and school personnel. An appropriate curriculum for high school students with mild disabilities should accomplish the same goal as one designed for all high…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Sutaria, Saroj – 1987
The literature review examines the issue of whether categorical differentiation and placement of mentally retarded and learning disabled students is educationally warranted. First, the two conditions are defined; next, a comparison between the two on psychological, behavioral-social, and educational characteristics usually ascribed to children so…
Descriptors: Classification, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
Cobb, R. Brian – 1985
The requirements for vocational assessment of special needs students in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act are not well served by the traditional kinds of vocational assessment often practiced. Instead, vocational assessment for the purposes of responding to the mandate of the Act should be defined within the context of answering service…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Jones, Eric D.; And Others – 1983
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of out-of-level testing (OLT) when it is applied to the assessment of special education students with mild learning handicaps. This evaluation of OLT involved testing hypotheses related to: (1) the adequacy of vertical scaling, (2) the reliability and (3) the validity of OLT scores. Fifty-eight…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Error of Measurement, Guessing (Tests), Intermediate Grades
Schaefer, Earl S.; Edgerton, Marianna – 1980
This study of handicapped and non-handicapped preschool and early elementary school children and their older normal siblings was designed to determine (1) the intercorrelation of parent and teacher ratings of the child's academic competence and social adjustment, and (2) the correlations of mother, father and teacher ratings with the child's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities
