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Download full textHeller, Kirby A., Ed.; And Others – 1982
The document contains the final report of a project to determine the factors that account for disproportionate representation of minority students in special education programs, especially programs for mentally retarded students; and to identify placement criteria for practices that do not affect minority students disproportionately. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
ITKIN, WILLIAM; MULLEN, FRANCES A. – 1961
LEARNING ABILITIES OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN WERE STUDIED OVER A 4-YEAR PERIOD. THE RESEARCH RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SIX-PART REPORT. PART ONE, THE ACHIEVEMENT AND ADJUSTMENT OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED (EMH) CHILDREN, EMPLOYED THE MATCHED-PAIR METHOD WITH APPROXIMATELY 700 SAMPLES OF EMH CHILDREN, 7-13 YEARS OF AGE.…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Cooperative Programs, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes
MURPHY, THOMAS J.; AND OTHERS – 1966
SINCE ITS BEGINNING IN 1928, THE PROGRAM HAS EXPANDED TO BECOME A DEPARTMENT (1953), AND IN 1964, THE DEPARTMENT PROCESSED 1,500 CASES. SERVICES ARE PROVIDED FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, TRAINABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, CONFINED TO HOME OR HOSPITAL, VISUALLY HANDICAPPED, SPEECH HANDICAPPED,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Day Care, Learning Problems, Mental Retardation
Inkster Public Schools, MI. Lincoln Child Development Center. – 1968
An innovative kindergarten program was established as a federally funded project to pursue the following objectives: (1) to discover and develop the potential ability of each child, (2) to develop feelings of autonomy and self-worth, (3) to provide experiences for developing inquiring attitudes and for development of self-confidence and positive…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Curriculum, Educational Objectives, Kindergarten
Collister, Larry – 1975
Twenty-seven mildly and moderately mentally handicapped special education graduates from a special school and 23 mildly and moderately mentally handicapped special education graduates from a mainstream school were interviewed to determine long range benefits of each program. Interviews 1 and 2 years after graduation were designed to measure…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment, Exceptional Child Research, Followup Studies
Saint Bernard Parish Schools, Chalmette, LA. – 1969
As an answer to the problems posed by the traditional grade level approach to language arts study, the continuous progress program is centered on specific areas of instruction, with courses or blocks within each area especially designed to provide for students' individual differences. This document consists of an explanation of the program, a…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum Guides, English Curriculum, Flexible Progression
Novotny, Patricia Ann – 1974
Reviewed are research studies and their implications regarding mainstreaming educable mentally retarded (EMR) students. Discussed are studies dealing with topics such as the following: academic changes, learning potential status (stressing the need for individualization), emotional and social adjustment, locus of control (citing the difference…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Individualized Instruction, Locus of Control, Mainstreaming
Freund, Janet W. – 1969
Seven of 14 high school students with learning disabilities were placed in a resource room. Results were mixed, but staff affirmed the need for a special program. Learning disability programs in the elementary schools underlying the high school were proposed. Also, programs at 12 other high schools were reviewed along with the literature on the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child Research, Identification
North Dakota State Dept. of Public Instruction, Bismarck. – 1969
In 1968-69, 6,877 children were enrolled in North Dakota's public school programs in all areas of special education. There were fewer speech clinicians than in 1967-68, but there were more teachers in classes for educable mentally handicapped children, more services for children with special learning disabilities, and more classes for the…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Social Studies Education. – 1972
This report suggests that the school program for disruptive students should be intertwined with the total educational policy and resources of the school district and advocates individualized instruction, resource rooms, and staff participation in curriculum planning to aid the disruptive student. The report highlights the importance of good…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline Problems, Elementary School Students, Individualized Instruction
Dearborn Public Schools, MI. – 1970
Compared is the post high school adjustment of graduates of two types of special education programs for the educable mentally handicapped: a self-contained, vocationally oriented program separate from general education (School A) and a program integrated into the general high school, where job experience is concurrent with general education and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Educational Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Followup Studies
Gottlieb, Jay; Budoff, Milton – 1972
The social position of integrated and segregated educable mentally handicapped (EMR) children in a traditional school building was compared to that of EMR children in a no-interior wall school. The results indicated that while EMR children in the unwalled school were known more often by their nonEMR peers, they were not chosen as friends more…
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Classes (Groups of Students), Exceptional Child Research, Mainstreaming
Peer reviewedBak, John J.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1987
Students in grades four to six (N=77) judged the capabilities of peers traditionally labeled as "learning disabled" or "educable mentally retarded" but depicted in written vignettes only as attending either a resource room or special classroom. Students in special classes were judged significantly less capable than students in resource room…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Intermediate Grades, Labeling (of Persons), Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedZabel, Robert H.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1988
Teachers (n=233) of behaviorally disordered students in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska were surveyed concerning time spent on: evaluation, teaching, preparation/planning, consultation, and indirect support to students. No significant differences were found between resource and self-contained classroom teachers, nor in the use of time between 1980 and…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction
Peer reviewedSpear, Beatrice Sandra; Kretschmer, Robert E. – Special Services in the Schools, 1987
In simulated cases, the placement decisions of professionals serving hearing-impaired students were compared to the decisions of members of New York's Committees on the Handicapped, both as committees and as subgroups of administrators, psychologists, special education teachers, or parents. Results showed that the groups placed relatively…
Descriptors: Administrators, Committees, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
