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Download full textMartens, Elise H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
The occupational adjustment of handicapped adults is a matter that vitally concerns the schools in which handicapped children are taught. It is not a problem that can be ignored until the child becomes of employable age or until he is ready to leave school to go to work. The years which he spends in the classroom must at least furnish the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Enrollment Trends, Physical Disabilities, Career Choice
Peer reviewedMuscott, Howard S. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1997
A study compared the characteristics of 473 students with emotional/behavioral disabilities in four sequential special education placements (resource rooms, special classes, special schools, and residential schools). Results found that secondary students in resource rooms exhibited more maladaptive behavior than younger resource room students, and…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Disorders, Elementary School Students
Newman, Lynn; Blackorby, Jose – 1997
This study examined the involvement of special education teachers with school-linked services (SLS) programs at their California schools. Telephone interviews were conducted with 25 resource and 8 special day teachers at 33 Healthy Start elementary schools, as well as from focus groups conducted with special education teachers at 2 case-study…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Ancillary School Services, Disabilities, Elementary Education
Sitlington, Patricia L.; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the adult adjustment one year after leaving school of 130 individuals with behavioral disorders who graduated from Iowa special education programs in 1985 and 1986; the adult adjustment of 70 dropouts was also investigated. Adjustment areas examined included: living arrangements, leisure activities, mechanisms used to cope…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Disorders, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1966
GUIDELINES COVER THE PLANNING AND OPERATION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN. PROCEDURES ARE STATED FOR DEVELOPING SERVICES FOR THOSE WITH HEARING, VISUAL, OR PHYSICAL HANDICAPS AND THE HOMEBOUND OR HOSPITALIZED. ACCOMMODATING THE CRIPPLED IN REGULAR BUILDINGS, PROVIDING PHYSICAL, OCCUPATIONAL, AND SPEECH THERAPY, AND ARRANGING…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Boarding Homes, Children
Naples, Victor J.; Todd, Joseph H. – 1968
The historical development of programs for orthopedically handicapped children, class units and hospital classes approved during 1967-68, and the number of therapy units established are presented. Tables give data on program population: enrollment for years 1962-68, percent of handicaps enrolled, and IQ distributions. Aspects of occupational…
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Objectives, Equipment, Etiology
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1967
In the school year 1966-67, 283 districts in California (24% of all districts) serving 77% of the state's school children offered special classes for 16,307 educationally handicapped minors, 0.38% of the total school population. Upon a listing of both favorable areas and problems, recommendations were made to provide a current apportionment of…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Administration, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Class Size and Teacher Load in High School English. New York State English Council Monography No. 8.
Wade, Durlyn E. – 1964
To determine the class size and teaching load of secondary teachers of English in New York state, the Research Committee of the State English Council mailed 1,093 questionnaires to chairmen of English Departments in the state's registered public and private secondary schools. The 694 usable replies--representing 4,410 full-time English…
Descriptors: Class Size, English Instruction, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Noninstructional Responsibility
Tompkins, James R.; Allen, Adaline, Ed. – 1968
Society's priorities and the history of federal activity with emotionally disturbed children are reviewed; the new Bureau of Education for the Handicapped is discussed; and the responsibilities of its three Divisions, Research, Educational Services, and Training Programs, are given. Expenditures for emotionally disturbed children are noted with…
Descriptors: Autism, Educational Attitudes, Educational Facilities, Educational Needs
Malpass, Leslie F.; And Others – 1967
Three hundred words were programed for presentation by teaching machine or by workbook to mentally handicapped, nonreading subjects selected from the public school system (69 subjects) and from an institution (30 subjects). Both groups were matched on chronological age, mental age, programed words known, Gray Oral Reading Test (raw score) and a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Conventional Instruction, Exceptional Child Research, Institutional Schools
Clifford, Miriam; McKinney, James D. – 1974
Evaluated in a 3-year project were the effects of three different classroom settings (a graded open classroom with a resource teacher, a multigrade open classroom emphasizing individualized instruction, and two self-contained special education classrooms) on achievement, self-concept, and classroom behavior of 30-38 educable mentally retarded…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Communications, Delivery Systems
Haring, Norris G.; Hayden, Alice H. – 1968
Sixteen papers are provided. B. F. Skinner discusses the arrangement of contingencies for learning: Lloyd Homme describes behavioral engineering; and Frank Hewett considers behavior modification in special education. Also treated are experimental education by Norris Haring, program evaluation by Arthur Lumsdaine, and administration of special…
Descriptors: Administration, Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Development
Vigo County School Corp., Terre Haute, IN. – 1968
Children having problems in adjusting to school are referred to the Center. An interdisciplinary team evaluates each child for possible placement in a controlled therapeutic classroom. Provided here as preliminary project evaluation are a sample psychological report and a psychometric summary sheet. Case studies are given for children in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis
Plowman, Paul D., Comp.; Rice, Joseph P., Comp. – 1967
A compilation of presentations on programs for the gifted includes the following: increasing opportunities for education, notes on Project Talent, talent development and national goals, talent identification in California, problems and recommendations in the area of the talented, innovations in talent development, issues and problems in modern…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Administration, Audiovisual Aids, Community Resources
Reger, Roger; And Others – 1968
Designed for administrators and special education teachers, the text describes how and why to establish a special education program. Areas reviewed are the educational program, responsibility of the schools for problem children, nature of special education and handicap, decision making, problems in special education, teacher preparation and…
Descriptors: Administration, Association (Psychology), Auditory Perception, Classroom Design
