EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED, HANDICAPPED, OR SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED CHILDREN CANNOT BE SUCCESSFULLY AND EFFECTIVELY EDUCATED IN A REGULAR SCHOOL. A PROGRAM ESTABLISHING SEPARATE SCHOOLS, TO BE KNOWN AS "600" SCHOOLS, WAS ESTABLISHED FOR THESE CHILDREN. A THERAPEUTIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, NONPUNITIVE IN APPROACH, IN WHICH ANTISOCIAL, DISRUPTIVE…

Areas of social behavior are reviewed in terms of the increasing emphasis on mainstreaming and normalization for children with special needs and the resulting concerns of psychologists and educators with the social interaction difficulties of learning disabled children. These areas of social behavior that contribute to a child's peer interactions…

A number of social, home adjustment, and self concept measures were administered to 200 physically handicapped adolescents in British special schools. No significant differences were found in terms of self concept, family relations, social adjustment, or attitudes toward the disabled between the 100 dayschool Ss and the 100 residential school Ss.…

Provided in Volume II of a final report on the status of California educable mentally retarded (EMR) students reassigned to regular classes as a result of legislation are appended forms, instruments and project reports. Included are letters of introduction to various project phases, project data collection forms (including teacher questionnaires),…

Described is Project PRICE (Programing Retarded in Career Education), for educable retarded students from kindergarten through grade 12. Dealt with in three sections are a review of the literature and a discussion of such critical issues as the work ethic vs. the life ethic (concerning the major program emphasis in career education. It is…

Presented as a part of Project PRICE (Programming Retarded in Career Education) for primary through secondary age educable retarded persons, are behavioral objectives for 22 competencies in the areas of daily living skills, personal social skills, and occupational guidance and preparation. It is explained that the competencies should comprise the…

The Social and Prevocational Information Battery (SPIB) consists of a series of nine tests designed to assess knowledge of skills and competencies widely regarded as important for the ultimate community adjustment of educable mentally retarded students. The nine areas are purchasing, budgeting, banking, job related behavior, job search skills,…

Cognitive effects in children's learning of altruistic behavior were tested with an adaptation of Aronfreed's test design and machine. Children in grades 1-4 were presented with a machine with 2 levers. One lever, when pressed, released bubble gum, and the other turned on a light. For two of the three groups the experimenter exclaimed delightedly…

The purpose of the study was to examine reading gains of Job Corps students receiving instruction individually or in small groups, and to compare the differential effects of these gains on social and personal adjustment of the students. Thirty girls were randomly assigned to each of two experimental groups; individual instruction (II) and small…

This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of two types of vocational education programs in improving students' social and vocational adjustment and success. In a comparison between dropout rehabilitation and high school vocational graduates, 92 graduates of the Oklahoma City Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Youth Program…

Presented is a longitudinal followup study some 4-10 years later of 569 mentally handicapped adults discharged from the Pineland Hospital and Training Center. Described are the setting in which the research was done (the institution, the field, and the State of Maine), relevant literature, the methodology of the data collection and analysis, and…

The first section of the handbook lists clinics, centers, schools, and camps (both public and private facilities) offering services for emotionally disturbed children in Massachusetts and nearby areas. Descriptive information for each facility includes: location, director, type and number of clients, services offered, professions represented on…

The relationship between client perceptions and counselor effectiveness in a group setting was examined. An attempt was made to identify client-perceived counselor qualities which are related to outcome (change in grade point average) in a group counseling program designed to effect academic recovery with probationary students. The students,…

This book describes a series of studies included in a 5-year program of research on the social adjustment of school children in the third through sixth grades. The sample consists of a total of 40,000 children from Texas and Minnesota, including a small subsample of 5,000 used in a 4-year longitudinal study. Peer acceptance-rejection scores…

This book deals with methods that individuals use to feed information and opinions back to mass communication systems. Typical examples of mass media and "information centers" were used to study feedback and environmental adjustment. Specifically, the feedback channels investigated are letters to the editor in newspapers, the urban newspaper…