A mobile unit was used over a 2 1/2 month period to demonstrate that a mobile tutoring program for eight infants with Down's Syndrome (12 to 18 months old) had certain educational, economic, and logistical advantages. The vehicle and camper body were said to have been chosen according to the following criteria: sufficient height to permit an adult…

This volume is the second of two documents concerning a performance-based undergraduate program for teacher education at Brooklyn College. Appendixes relating to the first volume are presented. These appendixes include position papers on teaching-learning centers, the campus media center, design for counseling services and affective education, the…

This booklet evaluates teacher education in Prince Edward Island and recommends some immediate changes. The evaluation was occasioned by the changing role of the teacher in the world today from being "the prime source," a position that causes inadequacies and insecurity, to being the guide of individual children through appropriate…

The regionalization of the University of Washington Medical School represents a beginning in addressing the problem of maldistribution of physician manpower in the states concerned-Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WAMI). The WAMI experiment uses the faculties and facilities available in the universities of these states to teach first year…

This volume contains an inventory of programs of national organizations which offer manpower services to veterans of the United States Armed Forces. The programs and components described offer employment opportunities, job referrals, and employability development or counseling. The inventory presents both Federal programs and programs operated by…

This study of chronic illness in the home originates in theoretical and practical questions posed by physicians, nurses, and biometricians. The study covers the following elements: The research plan, the patient sample, providing continued care, interviewing, classification of disease and mental status, effect of treatment program, classification…

This paper describes methods developed by the University of Wisconsin Regional Rehabilitation Research Institute (UW-RRRI) to help identify difficult and challenging rehabilitation cases before services begin. Several scales are described in the paper; the first, the Handicap Problems Inventory, a forerunner to UW-RRRI measurements, is published…

The portable videotape recorder has made television a fast and cheap medium which can be used in social change and community development. This collection provides a practical handbook for planning a community development project in the form of detailed references and a programed test. Techniques for setting up a project and working with the…

The summary report and recommendations of the Ford Foundation studies in income contingent loans for higher education are presented. Recommendations regarding the pay-as-you-earn concept concern the role of credit in financing higher education; the search for more manageable debt; capitalizing a loan plan; institutional loan plans; short-term…

The use of career-based adult basic education to achieve rehabilitation in persons in correctional insitutions is discussed in this report. This program, based on a model design developed by corrections personnel, is a cooperative effort in teacher training, experimentation, demonstration, operation, and evaluation. Goals are defined, the model is…

Thirty-three Parent-Child Centers (PCCs) are grouped into five clusters according to thematic orientation of content or intent for parents' and children's programs in order to provide models which may be viewed as strata in selecting Centers as sampling points for Phase II of the national PCC evaluation--an in-depth study of project impact on…

Some procedures, costs, and results of the Pilot Special Events Child Development Programs in Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1971 and 1972 are reviewed. The program was designed to provide an innovative and stimulating experience for the children of parents attending a political conference. A chapter describing equipment needed includes toys for…

This paper contains reports prepared by counselors and teachers of the mentally retarded. The thesis of this paper is that the opportunity for the handicapped student to lead a productive life can only be accomplished through proper education, guidance, and counseling. Included are reports on the following: elementary counseling of educable…

Five segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this problems and solutions book for use as the first part of student course work. The subject-matter topics are related to significant digits, vectors, dimensions, dot and cross products, speeds, velocities, problem solving procedures, projectiles, Newton's laws, and…

Five segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this problems and solutions book for use as the second part of student course work. The subject-matter topics are related to circular motion, work, power, kinetic energy, potential energy, conservative forces, conservation of energy, spring problems, center of mass, and…