China has initiated experiments on "Learning in Regular Classrooms" (LRC) since the mid-1980s in response to the international trend of inclusive education and the domestic need of serving large numbers of children with disabilities. LRC is the main strategy to promote compulsory education for youngsters with disabilities. Despite the…

Twenty-six scholarly papers and ten abstracts comprise the content of the thirteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The…

More than 10 years have passed since the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) came into effect for employers of 15 or more employees. Americans with disabilities continue to be more unemployed and underemployed than their nondisabled peers. Small businesses, with fewer than 500 employees, continue to be the…

Art galleries, theaters, and museums are often communicatively inaccessible to people with aphasia. This article describes how a group of people with aphasia and a group of health and arts service providers worked together to develop an arts access initiative that involved people with aphasia in accessing museums and arts courses in the community…

Deaf individuals seeking substance abuse recovery are less likely to have access to treatment and aftercare services because of a lack of culturally and linguistically specific programs and insufficient information about existing services. Previous research indicates that Oxford House, a network of resident-run recovery homes, serves a diverse…

The brochure provides suggestions for adapting or building approaches and entrances to the home to provide full accessibility to persons with mobility limitations due to disability or age. Briefly described are modifications for ramps, landings at the top and bottom of a ramp, and door openers and locks. This publication lists 13 sources for…

The report describes a project designed to test the feasibility of adapting off-the-shelf educational software to a speech synthesizer compatible with Apple personal computers for visually impaired students. Fifteen visually impaired children were administered pretests and posttests for auditory discrimination, computer literacy, keyboard…

The guide was developed to assist physically handicapped persons in using South Carolina State Parks. It describes some of the accessibility problems identified in a 1986 Inventory of Handicapped Accessibility in South Carolina State Parks and Welcome Centers. It is noted that building construction since 1967 has met handicapped design criteria…

The report contains the information provided at the national hearing of the Architectural and Transportation Compliance Board regarding recreation for the handicapped. The bulk of the document consists of abstracts of testimony which included both written statements and cross examination questions from such individuals as John H. Davis, executive…

Individuals with disabling conditions have rights to participate in recreational activities. Full participation for disabled participants can be a reality if consideration is given to facilities, programs and activities, and people. (MT)

Two studies of 300 elementary schools in 52 California school districts (all schools had computers for instructional use) found that two-thirds allowed learning handicapped (LH) students access, that only half provided computer instruction to LH students, but that the more microcomputers a school had the more access LH students had. (Author/DB)

The author, a woman with cerebral palsy, discusses her experiences with adapting microcomputers to her functional skills and describes the inception and growth of the Committee on Personal Computers and the Handicapped (part of the Congress of Organizations of the Physically Handicapped). (CL)

Discusses a study that examined the perceptions of school life among physically disabled students aged nine to twelve. Also discusses implications for designing more appropriate school environments for mainstreamed physically disabled students. (JOW)

Information from three directories of U.S. postsecondary institutions was analyzed and estimates were made of the percentage of blind and visually handicapped college students, and settings in which they were enrolled special services (such as readers and brailling services) were identified as well as scholarship sources. (CL)

Six constraints on equal opportunity for visually impaired persons to access microcomputers include abscence of (1) standard computer braille code, (2) a standard system for the audio encoding of braille, (3) a means for accessing unique disk-operating system copy-protected programs, (4) reasonably priced equipment, (5) an interactive tactile…