Two experiments involving 40 developmentally disabled children (7 to 13 years old) and 32 normal school children (from grades 2-5) were designed to produce a cognitive assessment tool, based on musical conservation tasks, which would be particularly useful with visually handicapped children. Implications from the research were that these tasks…

Examined were the effects of four teachers' use of a data-based behaviorally oriented planning technique on the verbal labeling performance of eight developmentally delayed children (2-5 years old). Teachers were introduced to a 10-tactic planning technique that included behaviors ranging from simply counting the number of correct and incorrect…

The manual (part of the training package, "Individual Program Planninq with Developmentally Disabled Persons", IPP) presents suggestions for administering training in individual program planning and for maintaining the IPP system. Discussed are the contents of the IPP training package, descriptions of the six training sessions, policies for the…

The basic sources and types of demographic data available for future planning for the developmentally disabled are reviewed and a frame work for data organization is suggested. It is explained that future forecasts may be undertaken by the following principles: trend forecasting or extrapolation; scenario construction; models, games, and…

Observations of current trends in advocacy and services for the developmentally disabled are presented. Discussed are the following four observable environments of the future in terms of the developmental disabilities movement: the systems and organizational environment; the socio-political environment; the technological environment; and the…

This book concentrates on activities to meet the needs of children and adults who are deficient in basic physical fitness components, who are handicapped in some respect: posture faults, poor flexibility, weight problems, or other inadequacies which interfere with their effective participation in physical education activities. It stresses…

Summarized are major federal regulations affecting the handicapped issued during 1976. Regulations are organized according to the following categories: health (such as long term care and home health services, health planning, and facilities construction); education (such as handicapped education grants to the states, early childhood education, and…

The teacher's manual is designed to help plan art experiences for children with developmental problems. Included are sections on pasting, cutting, crayons, clay, tempera, finger painting, paper tearing, crafts, and seasonal activities. Each activity is outlined with a list of materials and procedure to follow. Suggested in the introduction to each…

Presented is the second year report of a project designed to assist state advisory councils in evaluating services to the developmentally disabled. Described are the five project objectives (including providing assistance to new and existing regional committees), methodologies and results (including definition of services and questions to be asked…

Presented is a compilation of The Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act (P.L. 91-517) and its amendment, the Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (P.L. 94-103). The document contains three sections: an index to the developmental disabilities law as amended; the compiled legislation; and the Joint…

Described is the National Advocacy Project of the United Cerebral Palsy Association involving demonstration projects and model programs advocating the legal and human rights of the person with a developmental disability and his family. Goals and objectives of the project are listed as follows: improving the effectiveness of agencies and services…

The paper maintains that the preventive medical model is inappropriate for dealing with childhood developmental disorders. (Author)

Described is a system for providing comprehensive community residential living for the developmentally disabled. (Author/CL)

Seventy-five former residents (6-77 years old) of a public residential facility for the developmentally disabled were interviewed to determine their attitudes toward and impressions of living in the community as well as the degree to which their foster, group, or adult home conformed to the principle of normalization. (Author/CL)

An evaluation was made of the behavioral status of nine institutionalized developmentally disabled adolescents at the point of their entry into a community school program and after a 3-4-month follow-up period. (Author)