Approximately 400 references regarding working with parents of handicapped children are noted on the resource list and annotated bibliography. In the resource list, books are grouped by subject headings including types of handicapping conditions (11 conditions including hearing impairments, severe handicaps, physical/health impairments,…

The recognition that children's cognitive skills are evident in visual as well as verbal conventions has led to the construction of the Silver Test of Cognitive and Creative Skills (STCCS) for the assessment and development of children's cognitive abilities. Research on cognition, the role of language in cognition, and left and right brain…

The 34 summaries contained in this collection represent the theoretical positions and the empirical studies of a wide variety of investigators currently working in the field of language comprehension. The entries summarize contributions from the areas of assessment, artificial intelligence, cognition (including schema theory), instruction,…

This publication, the second in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) professional reference series, is a collection of essays, each coauthored by a professional mathematics educator and a special education professional and directed to a particular exceptionality. The premise that the mathematical education of exceptional children…

A series of studies with learning disabled (LD) elementary grade students in eight schools investigated the relationship between class placement (regular class, part time regular class, or special class) and self concept. Ss were administered the Piers Harris Children's Self Concept Scale before and after placement changes. Results included the…

To comply with federal and state laws mandating free and appropriate education for all handicapped children, the Kentucky General Assembly authorized the State Department of Education, the Kentucky Council on Teacher Education and Certification, and the Kentucky Council on Higher Education to study higher education programs and certification…

Based on findings on the Juniper Gardens Children's Project (a community based research program to increase the reading skills of learning disabled inner city children), the paper presents research and preliminary classroom observations which point to the importance of providing an environment which allows Black minority inner city students to…

The report describes ASSIST, a teacher-controlled computer assisted instruction (CAI) system in special education. Field tested with aporoximately 200 handicapped elementary and junior high students (educable mentally retarded, educationally handicapped, learning disabled, and oral language handicapped). Results are said to demonstrate that such a…

The differential effectiveness of four compensatory education programs for economically disadvantaged children was assessed. Ninety-two children were assigned to one of the following remedial approaches: a child focused school based, a child focused home based, a mother-child home based, a mother only home based. A no treatment control group was…

This annotated bibliography lists low reading/high interest vocational and career education materials for use by teachers, counselors, administrators, and students involved in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, English as a second language, and learning disability programs. Each of the 115 references included in the bibliography is…

The paper examines seven pressing issues in the educational assessment of children with learning and behavior disorders. Research and court cases are cited in the discussion of the following issues (sample subtopics in parentheses): focus of assessment (for clarification, identification, and classification purposes); types of abilities evaluated…

The paper focuses on how aspects of the physical and social environment can be analyzed and arranged within a training classroom to teach children with learning and behavior problems a variety of skills, and to promote generalization of these skills from the training classroom to an integrated classroom. The preliminary step in the teaching…

The major objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the skill-based Wisconsin Design Word Attack (WDWA) system with severely disabled readers, by comparing a phonetic patterns approach, basal-only approach, and a basal approach combined with the WDWA system. The questions were whether achievement on decoding words in isolation…

The teacher inservice program described here is intended to familiarize the participant with the behavioral and learning characteristics of classroom children who have specific learning disabilities. Subjects covered include visual and auditory perception and learning; remediation of specific language, reading, and writing problems; and motor and…

The effectiveness of three counseling models and a no-counseling control situation for students with behavioral and learning difficulties was examined. The first model consisted of counseling parents, teachers and students; the second of consulting and counseling teachers and students; and the third of counseling students only. Subjects were 58…