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Ross, Samuel B., Jr. – 1982
Green Chimneys, a residential center for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled children in New York, uses farm animals in the treatment program. Children learn horseback riding, animal husbandry, gardening, and farming on a working farm. The program seeks to involve the community and provide training to volunteers, interns, and learning…
Descriptors: Animals, Emotional Disturbances, Farm Management, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedHerstein, Norman – Child Welfare, 1975
Key questions in outcome evaluation involve outcomes to be measured, differentiation of institutions, and the evaluation criteria-professionally derived or community-derived. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Needs, Program Effectiveness
Minnesota State Office of the Legislative Auditor, St. Paul. Program Evaluation Div. – 1983
The report evaluates how Minnesota plans, regulates, and finances residential services for mentally retarded persons. The first chapter reviews descriptive findings about the mentally retarded population in the state and notes that despite a decline in the number of state hospital residents, the total number of retarded persons in long-term care…
Descriptors: Financial Policy, Mental Retardation, Residential Programs, State Legislation
Download full textMachell, David F. – 1984
Many alcohol treatment programs have stressed a sense of belongingness as a means for successful treatment of alcoholics in a residential setting. An examination of the effectiveness of this strategy in highly structured and less structured programs involved 200 chronic, recidivistic male adult alcoholics in a residential program. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Clinics, Drinking
Hill, B. K.; And Others – 1984
Residential facilities for mentally retarded people surveyed in a national study in 1977 were re-contacted in a 1982 replication of the earlier survey. Among facilities surveyed in 1977, 61.6% were found to still be open at the same address in 1982 (did not close, move, or stop serving mentally retarded clients). Stability rates varied…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Followup Studies, Mental Retardation, National Surveys
Palmer, Richard H. – Educ Theatre J, 1969
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, College Environment, Drama
Wieck, Colleen A.; Bruininks, Robert H. – 1980
The direction and scope of deinstitutionalization in 75 public and 161 community residential programs for mentally retarded people in the Unites States were examined by analysis of current levels of expenditures, projected costs, efficacy of existing funding mechanisms, and identification of critical factors affecting cost variation. Results of a…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Flanagan, Dan – 1975
Several Institutions are investigating appropriate ways to meet the needs of those traditional aged (17 through 22 years) students who desire the experience of residential living. The purpose of this paper is to identify those elements of residential living that have proven beneficial in creating a meaningful college experience for students. The…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Higher Education, On Campus Students
Shennan, Victoria, Ed. – 1976
Presented is a directory of 371 hostels and homes provided for the mentally handicapped by local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Entries are listed by county, and sections are divided as to whether they are non-statutory (under private ownership), under local authority, or administered by hospitals. Information on each…
Descriptors: Directories, Exceptional Child Services, Foreign Countries, Group Experience
Schacht, Robert H. – 1960
Reprinted from a doctoral dissertation on the history, theory, and scope of residential adult education in the United States, this essay suggests a number of values to be found in the residential method, together with certain trends, educational attitudes, and other forces that could affect participation in, and the growth and structure of,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Schultz, Edward W.; And Others – 1972
A questionnaire was sent to 69 directors of residential centers in the state of Illinois affiliated with the Child Care Association, Department of Mental Health and Department of Corrections - Juvenile Division, regarding the current status of educational arrangements in Illinois institutions serving disturbed, delinquent, and/or…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Educational Opportunities, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedGlenwick, David S.; And Others – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1979
A group of 30 institutionalized "predelinquent" preadolescents and 30 public school nondelinquent preadolescents were compared on Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF) of cognitive impulsivity. Contrary to predictions, predelinquents were more reflective than nondelinquents on both the latency and error dimensions of the MFF.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Delinquency, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Retish, Paul – Mental Retardation, 1978
The development of Systems Unlimited is summarized; a normalization program that provides community residential living for moderately to severely handicapped individuals, who usually were institutionalized. (Author/BD)
Descriptors: Group Homes, Handicapped Children, Normalization (Handicapped), Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedMillman, Howard L.; Pancost, Richard O. – Behavioral Disorders, 1977
Available from: Behavioral Disorders, Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091. Methods of assessing specific programs as well as overall agency objectives are illustrated by evaluating the residential treatment program at Children's Village which serves boys (7 to 14 years old) with serious emotional…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Program Evaluation
Rullman, Lee – Deficience Mentale/Mental Retardation, 1977
Available from: Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded, Kinsmen National Institute on Mental Retardation Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada. A plan developed by the Metropolitan Toronto Association for the Mentally Retarded to foster apartment living in the community for mentally handicapped…
Descriptors: Community Services, Foreign Countries, Mental Retardation, Normalization (Handicapped)
