The annotated bibliography on Gifted--Handicapped/Disadvantaged/Underachievers contains approximately 65 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1957 to 1976 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources…

Third in a series of workshops for personnel dealing with severely multiply handicapped students, the inservice package is intended to teach potential trainers to provide effective inservice programs. The package focuses on group process skills (four modules) and organizational skills needed for planning and conducting a workshop (six modules).…

A modified before-after, control-group evaluation design was employed to assess the impact of a demonstration program for 30 multiply handicapped retarded children (mean age 5.6 years). (Author/PHR)

The paper outlines an educational scheme whereby teachers of severely mentally retarded and multiply-handicapped children (including deaf/blind children) can assess the prelanguage levels of children on a hierarchical language schedule, which culminates in the acquisition of natural gesture. (Author)

The article describes a program in which students from Boston University's Department of Movement, Health, and Leisure, enrolled in the course "Motor Learning Theory and Laboratory," assist in assessing and providing individually tailored programs of motor training for deaf-blind children at the Perkins School for the Blind. (DLS)

Satiation, over-correction and differential reinforcement of other behavior resulted in the elimination of chronic clothes ripping by six institutionalized mentally retarded emotionally disturbed adolescents. (CL)

The authors discuss concerns and practical suggestions involved in the education of multiply handicapped children in the following problem areas: first aid, emergency care and disaster planning; sanitation; environment; safety in routine and supplemental activities; therapy procedures; and staff protection, training, orientation, and special…

Thirty-eight mentally retarded persons who failed audiometric screening at school were evaluated tympanometrically. (JG)

Survey responses from 63 administrators of programs for hearing impaired students indicated a lack of criteria for identifying hearing impaired students with additional learning disabilities, limited resources for appropriate assessment and programming, and a lack of properly qualified teachers for this population. (Author/DB)

The case study describes various treatments implemented over a three-year period to reduce and eliminate multiple and severe self-injurious behaviors in a 45-year-old retarded and psychotic institutionalized man. Nonaversive intervention and community involvement was associated with positive behavior change and eventual community placement. (DB)

A review of existing emotional disorder assessment techniques confirmed that they are inappropriate for most children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and pay inadequate attention to affective symptoms in these subjects. A new instrument designed to evaluate mood and affect which has shown good interrater agreement is described.…