The problems, frustrations, successes, and failures met by the Roseneath Centennial Public School in Roseneath, Canada, while attempting to respond to the unique needs of the community it serves are described in this paper. The school staff planned and implemented a program in cross-cultural studies in order to reduce the friction between the…

A collection of writings by 17 authors, the text includes the following discussions: general principles of diagnosis and management of mental retardation, neurologic evaluation of the infant and child, psychological evaluation, educational information, and treatment of pseudoretardation, communicative disorders, and metabolic and endocrine causes.…

Since the purpose of the schools is education, school size becomes important if it affects the educational opportunities available to students or the effectiveness of the educational program. The rationale for an extremely large secondary school rests on two assumptions--a large school can offer a broader educational program, and costs per student…

The manual attempts to bring changes into the way in which manual communication is currently used by deaf adults or in some schools for the deaf, in order to bring manual communication into a closer parallel to the English language so that signs can be used to teach English to the language handicapped deaf person and particularly to adult…

Programs in two southeastern communities were established to develop community resource persons who could facilitate the initiation of comprehensive manpower development and utilization programs. Major problems inhibiting the development of such manpower programs were fragmentation of social welfare program and lack of total community concern and…

The project, Pueblo Indian Education Talent Search Project, identifies problems related to Indian success in colleges. These problems, listed in order, are (1) poor communications (speaking, hearing, and writing English); (2) improper study habits in the first years; (3) lack of orientation to college life; and (4) the minority complex of the…

The Alaska Educational Program for Intercultural Communication is developing a method of needs assessment which is unique to the state, possibly to the nation. The staff is comprised of highly creative and interculturally sentient people, all uncredentialed in evaluation. Their task has been to develop structures which foster communication where…

Organizational communication includes all verbal and nonverbal stimuli affecting individual behavior and can be defined in terms of purpose, operational procedures, and structural elements. The fundamental element is the organization unit. Related to this unit are three other elements of organizational communication--communication networks,…

PL89-749, passed in 1966, included a number of provisions for increasing participation of consumers in the improvement of the health care delivery system, including development of training programs to equip consumers for participation in the health planning process. The evaluation attempts to ascertain the direct effect of training programs on…

In the first part of this document, several definitions of communication are presented, and some of the various concepts or theories of communication are introduced. The authors then review some of the barriers that tend to impede effective communication, such as social-psychological and sociological barriers. Next, they examine those factors that…

To overcome communications failures which tend to impede useful educational change and to achieve the goal of an educationally informed public, the feasibility of a Communications Coalition was investigated. Two other long term goals were identified: to promote a national concern for educational change and to design a system which would be…

The transfer of information through space and time in communication systems is often accompanied by significant delays which give rise to meaningful storage problems. Mathematical models have been developed for the study of these kinds of problems which are applicable to the design of manual, library-type, or mechanized information storage and…

The paper outlines a faculty developed communication skills training lab designed for students in a masters degree program in guidance and counselor education. The communication module, three voluntary, ungraded sessions offered during three of the final six class meetings, focus attention on (1) distinguishing between thinking, feeling, and…

This study was conducted to identify the language difficulties encountered by parents in working with 106 goal statements for elementary education. A sample of 13 parents from middle to low socioeconomic classes identified 1,265 words and phrases they did not understand. After the goals were rewritten, parents identified only 58 words and phrases…

This paper focusses on problems involved in adopting the newer modes of social science and professionalism. The complexities which precede these problems are recognized. It is mentioned that many recent entrants to these fields have made value commitments in their professionalism without very long detention at the portals of objectivity or…