The study tested the effectiveness of Project LIFE, a programed language system, on a population of mentally retarded and/or learning disabled deaf children at Indiana State School for the Deaf. The perceptual training sequences and the thinking activities sequences of Project LIFE were implemented and evaluated. Pretest and posttest comparisons…

Nine conference papers focus on the following topics related to the deaf-blind and their education: pitfalls in the coordination of assessment and treatment of handicapped children, promotion of adaptive patterns in the handicapped child, use of hearing in deaf-blind children, etiology of hearing loss, and the educator's assessment of visual…

Described in depth is an educational program for multiply handicapped children aged 3 to 8 years as it is now operating and a model program which explains what a school district, county or other agency can do to develop and install a program for multiply handicapped children. Program description includes information on philosophy of program…

Proceedings of the conference of executives of American schools for the deaf consist of 27 papers and reports of 14 standing committees. Selected topics discussed include planning a new era at Gallaudet College, St. Paul Technical Vocational Institute's Technical Vocational Program for deaf students, current status of National Technical Institute…

Presented is a curriculum designed to provide the teacher of the young deaf child with learning disabilities with a description of developmental objectives and methods for fulfilling these objectives in the areas of gross motor development, sensory motor integration, visual analysis, attention and memory, and conceptualization. The objectives are…

The annotated bibliography on Severely and Multiply Handicapped--Teaching Methods/Assessment contains approximately 120 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1966 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education…

Developed for an occupational training program in bicycle repair for the multiply-handicapped deaf student, this curriculum guide is organized around three levels of achievement each having a specific terminal objective and corresponding to a predetermined employment entry-level skill. Level I is a general service level; Level II, advanced service…

Presented is the final report on the first year's activities of the Ochlocknee Multi-Handicapped Outreach Project to develop services for handicapped children (0-8 years old). It is noted that the project's first goal focuses on providing demonstration and dissemination of project information, outreach support, and replication services. A second…

Three exercises and four table games were taught through task analysis and data-based instruction to severely mentally retarded and multiply handicapped adolescents and adults. (CL)

An attempt was made to place 58 severaly disabled epileptic people in competitive employment. (Author/BD)

In order to maximize the development and generalization of social responses of two severely retarded, multihandicapped children (10 and 11 years old) and their classroom peers, a continuous observation system was used to select target responses. (Author)

For availability, see EC 104 061. Sensory stimulation, similar to that received during self stimulation, was administered to one autistic and one multiply handicapped child (6 and 4 years old) contingent upon correct response to a manipulative task. (CL)

Presented is the third article in a series describing the conceptualization, implementation, and results to date of the George Peabody College for Teachers' Model Center for Severely Handicapped, Multi-Impaired Children with Visual Impairment as a Primary Handicapping Condition. (Author/IM)