Two newsletters focus on alternatives for community living and approaches to teaching social skills to children and youth with disabilities. The first issue provides information on some family support services and community-based living arrangements that are currently available for children with severe and profound handicaps or chronic illnesses.…

The working draft of the teaching guide is intended for use with secondary students with learning and behavior problems and focuses on the development of three school coping skill areas: behavior control, teacher pleasing behaviors, and study skills. Each area is divided into teaching components with terminal objectives and related instructional…

An unsuccessful attempt was made to facilitate study behavior of Athabasca University learners through instruction in behavioral methods of self-control. The general procedure consisted of providing each student with a package containing instructions and materials for the self-application of the strategies of self-monitoring and standard setting.…

This paper describes the research and evaluation efforts of the Navy Substance Abuse Prevention Program at the University of Arizona. The importance and usefulness of formative and summative evaluations are discussed and specific evaluation tasks are identified. The first of these tasks is associated with personnel selection; the functions and…

Identifies an epistemological bias in current psychological research in family planning and population change that contributes to its lack of relevance in providing solutions to problems: population psychologists simply must get on with the business of effecting changes in problem behaviors. (Author/JM)

Children in three film treatment groups emitted more delay choices on a posttest than did control group children. Although, after four weeks, treatment effects were still in evidence for two groups, the greatest magnitude of change occurred in subjects who viewed films showing modeling and persuasive (verbal) cues in combination. (Author/SDH)

A behavior modification program in a rehabilitation center requires a staff member skilled in behavior modification, as well as considerable inservice training of staff who work with clients. A workshop without walls approach also requires a staff heavily involved in employer contacts and follow-up of clients. (EA)

A continuous reinforcement, delayed classical eyelid-conditioning paradigm in combination with the peripheral vasomotor response of digital vasoconstriction was employed to examine the hypothesized attention deficit for 10 15-year-old educable mentally retarded and same-age nonretarded Ss. (Author/MC)

In an attempt to reduce classroom misbehavior and encourage positive accomplishments among congenitally deaf children, a democratic theoretical model based on the concepts of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs was applied with 27 deaf children (ages 4 to 9 years) in four classes. (LC)

A video tape showing behavior of a deaf blind child was used to demonstrate behavioral change in unstructured, stimulus, task analysis, and interpersonal orientations over a 4-year period. (Author/MC)

A program to teach the techniques of behavior modification to attendants working with severely and profoundly retarded institutionalized residents has been developed and tested. (Author)

A highly structured language instruction program was used for 4 months to accelerate the verbal development of 10 Down's syndrome children 4- to 7-years-old. (DB)

Described is the program of the Model Preschool Center for Handicapped Children in the Experimental Education Unit at the University of Washington which is currently serving 44 Down's Syndrome children ranging in age from 5 weeks to 5 1/2 years. (DB)