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SPEVACK, HARRY – 1961
ABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE.
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Emotional Disturbances, Guidance Programs, Institutional Schools
LEE, JOHN J.; AND OTHERS – 1959
THE EDUCATION AND SUBSEQUENT SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT OF RETARDED CHILDREN AND YOUTH OF WAYNE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL AND SPECIAL CLASSES IN DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE INVESTIGATED. DATA FOR THE 400 MENTALLY RETARDED AND 100 NORMAL SUBJECTS WERE OBTAINED FROM INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRES, RECORDS FROM SCHOOLS, POLICE, EMPLOYERS, SOCIAL AGENCIES, AND THE…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Improvement, Graduate Surveys, Institutional Schools
Download full textKRIDER, MARY A.; PETSCHE, MARY – 1967
THREE GROUPS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WERE ESTABLISHED IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT ON ACHIEVEMENT OF PROVIDING SOME CHILDREN WITH A PRESCHOOL PROGRAM AND SOME CHILDREN WITH NO SUCH PROGRAM. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF HEAD START CHILDREN WERE MATCHED ACCORDING TO SEX, RACE, GENERAL LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE, AND PARENT'S OCCUPATIONAL LEVEL WITH A…
Descriptors: Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Disadvantaged
THOMAS, JOHN W. – 1966
THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE NEWARK STATE SCHOOL ARE CLASSIFIED AND RELATED TO SUBJECT AREAS IN A PREFACE TO TWO SEPARATE CURRICULUM OUTLINES FOR SOCIAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ADJUSTMENT. FOR EACH UNIT, SUGGESTED TEACHING CONTENT IS CORRELATED WITH GENERAL AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CATEGORIZED FOR EACH AGE LEVEL--PREPRIMARY (5-8 YEARS), PRIMARY (9-12),…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Curriculum, Curriculum Guides
DODSON, DAN W.
PARENTS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY IN REARING THEIR CHILDREN TO BECOME MATURE, RESPONSIBLE, AND USEFUL CITIZENS. CHILDREN SHOULD SEE AND UNDERSTAND HOW GROUPS BECOME DIFFERENTIATED. PARENTS CAN ALSO HELP CHILDREN BECOME SECURE WITHIN THEIR OWN GROUP, THEREBY LESSENING THE THREAT OF CONTACT WITH PEOPLE OF OTHER GROUPS. MAKING THE CHILDREN LOVED, WANTED,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Community Involvement, Emotional Development
deJung, John E.; Reed, Daisy M. – 1978
The document describes a project (with an initial sample of 384 Ss and a followup sample of 200 Ss) to develop improved measures of occupational and social functioning of mildly retarded young adults in their postschool environments. Section I provides background information on the project and a project overview. The first part of Section II…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Followup Studies, Mild Mental Retardation
Sharp, Kay Colby – 1979
The relationship between interpersonal problem-solving training and behavioral adjustment was examined for 54 black, low-income preschool children. Pre- and post-testing was done with two interpersonal problem-solving measures designed by Shure and Spivack, Shure and Spivack's Hahnemann Preschool Behavior Rating Scale which classroom teachers were…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Black Youth, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
Irvine, David J. – 1968
Evaluation of education involves assessing the effectiveness of schools and trying to determine how best to improve them. Since evaluation often deals only with the question of effectiveness, performance indicators in education are designed to make evaluation more complete. They are a set of statistical models which relate several important…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Characteristics, Educational Objectives, Evaluation
Peer reviewedRoss, Alan O.; And Others – Child Development, 1965
The Pittsburgh Adjustment Survey Scales were developed to meet the need for the objective evaluation of the social behavior of elementary school-age boys using the observations of classroom teachers. An initial item pool was reduced to 94 items by an extreme-group procedure (202 subjects). A factor analysis (209 subjects) of the inventory resulted…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
McGivern, Patrick – 1976
Career educators have the awesome responsibility to provide realistic, practical, and effective preparation for the exceptional population to work in a world where all the opportunities and advantages of our society can be available to them in spite of disabling characteristics. On-the-job exploration or some kind of involvement with one who has a…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Decision Making, Employment Practices
Watson, Rollin J. – 1975
The Essex Community College (Maryland) full-time college program for maximum security inmates at the House of Correction at Jessup evolved as a natural outlet for numbers of the high school graduates which the prison secondary school was producing. Students proved to be well prepared, highly motivated, and well received by other inmates and the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling
Dahl, Barbara B.; And Others – 1975
The present study, based on data gathered after the first year of a longitudinal investigation, was designed to compare the second generational effects of long-term father absence on children whose fathers are classified as "missing in action" and children whose fathers were held prisoners during the Vietnam War but returned to their…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Armed Forces, Children, Fatherless Family
Lomen, Lynn D. – 1975
This study is a compilation of some of the published material on the social readjustment of widows and widowers plus a sampling (26) of personal interviews which the researcher conducted. The loss of a spouse is a traumatic experience. The emotional turmoil that follows, caused by the personal mode of living, circumstances of the death, treatment…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Death
Sinick, Daniel – 1975
The focus of this monograph is on three areas of counseling with older clients: career counseling, retirement counseling, and counseling regarding death and dying. The portion on career counseling includes reasons older persons change careers, obstacles they are likely to face when seeking employment, myths surrounding the employability of older…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Counseling, Career Change, Death
Kinsbourne, Marcel – 1975
Hyperactivity in children is explained in relation to behavioral characteristics, precipitating factors, and stimulant medication therapy. The basic mechanism of hyperactivity is seen to be impulsive style in motility, attention, and socialization. Problems caused by impulsivity are noted to include feeding problems, school difficulties, and peer…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Conference Reports, Drug Therapy
