Study findings are presented and discussed in terms of program characteristics, student characteristics, staff characteristics, program quality, support services, program effectiveness, and suggested developments. (Author/DLS)

The article describes the art therapy program for the mentally handicapped at St. Lawrence's Hospital in England. The program, which also serves those retarded patients who are physically handicapped, functions as a diagnosic and assessment aid, direct therapeutic aid, part of an integrated treatment program, means of employment for some patients,…

Explains search commands for SERIDU, an online bibliographic search system developed at Brussels Free University. These commands and output formats are compared with Euronet commands (from which they were derived), with existing INFODOC storage system commands, and with the planned BIDULE system commands. An evaluation of SERIDU is included. (SW)

Describes school workshops in which parents and their children work together on learning activities designed to familiarize parents with what goes on in the school. (JM)

The program was shown to be effective in increasing students' knowledge about epilepsy and fostering positive attitudes about those with epilepsy. (DLS)

The article discusses the rationale for mainstreaming handicapped children into preschool programs and describes some of the mainstreaming strategies used in the University of Oregon's Center on Human Development Preschool Program for mainstreaming handicapped children. (DLS)

Describes an "Aggressive Adoption" program designed to combat the problem of foster care "drift" by expanding the availability of adoption resources for children in the care of a small, public child welfare agency. (RH)

Under a "Youth Grant in the Hunamities" from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ten culturally different gifted high school students studied the lives of American heroes whose actions provoked controversies in the period from 1870-1950. (SBH)

A student tutoring program in which nonhandicapped secondary students worked with their handicapped peers is described as a successful experiment in reverse mainstreaming. (CL)

Ten games and activities designed to teach basic vocabulary to primary grade children are described. Basic Bingo, Word Hunt, Categories, and Scrabble are among the activities presented. (CL)

A model is presented to facilitate the movement of children from a residential center to community schools. The purpose of the model is explained to break the reintegration process into incremental steps which are expected to make the child's adjustment to a new school situation easier and more successful. (Author)

Describes the growth of service through program improvement and technical development at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) of the Library of Congress. (MBR)

Details are given for the use of the mixed effects multivariate analysis of variance table provided by the BMD12V computer program to compute raw generalized variances and hence the U and F statistics for the mixed effects model. (Author/JKS)

The process of setting up a Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program in a local elementary school is described. (DS)

Describes a project--"Curriculum: School Administration"--developed to fill the need for formal preparation of supervisory and school-level administrators. A prognosis for future developments is given along with the caution that it is too early to predict how training programs might become institutionalized. (Author/IRT)