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Hermanns, Jo – 1979
This study attempts to identify potential school problems in preschool children in order to facilitate the provision of relevant information for systematic screening and early guidance. Data from the first 14 months (to the end of the preschool period) of a longitudinal study extending from 4 1/2 years of age to the end of second grade are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development
Hale, Alan N. – 1979
The Hawaii Bound School seeks to provide a significant physical and emotional wilderness experience to those participating in its course. For 24 days a group of 12 students live together and are exposed to a wide variety of wilderness experiences. Among the places visited are the Kohala Mountains, Mauna Loa, Ka'u Desert, and the ocean itself.…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum
Download full textBRADLEY, NOLEN E.; MARTIN, PAUL R., JR. – 1967
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES A PROJECT WHICH IDENTIFIED COMMUNITY PROBLEMS IN TENNESSEE BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA. ACTION RESEARCH WAS DIRECTED TOWARD (1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STAFF MEMBERS, (2) THE IDENTIFICATION OF OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES CAPABLE OF…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Action, Community Needs, Community Problems
ERICKSON, MARION J. – 1965
BACKGROUND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED TO ENABLE TEACHERS AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE EDUCATION OF MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN TO RECOGNIZE AND TO MEET EFFECTIVELY THE CHILDREN'S NEEDS. EIGHT TOPICS ARE CONSIDERED--(1) NATURE AND CAUSES, (2) IDENTIFICATION, (3) SERVICES (PERSONNEL), (4) PROGRAM PLANNING, (5) PRESCHOOL PROGRAM, (6) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Responsibility, Curriculum, Elementary Education
Albizu-Miranda, Carlos; And Others – 1966
To study the prevalence of mental retardation in Puerto Rico, the proportional distribution of successful retardates, and the processes accounting for success and failure, a random sample of 4,771 adults between the ages of 23 and 49 was screened by the Stanford Binet Form L and a vocabulary test. From this sample, the estimated retardation rate…
Descriptors: Adults, Demography, Disadvantaged Youth, Education
Bricker, Diane D.; And Others – 1968
To facilitate the use of operant audiometry with low functioning children (psychotic, severely retarded, or multiply handicapped), a procedures manual was developed containing definitions of terms, instructions for determining reinforcers, physical facilities and equipment needs, diagrams, component lists, and technical descriptions. Development…
Descriptors: Audiometric Tests, Auditory Evaluation, Behavior, Clinical Diagnosis
Minkin, Rita – Foreign Languages News Bulletin, 1968
Special features of teaching Spanish to the Spanish speaking are identified and compared with objectives of teaching Spanish as a second language. Described are the (1) feasibility of achieving effective ability placement through a listening-comprehension test designed for use in Albuquerque Public Schools, (2) linguistic and motivational problems…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Audiolingual Methods, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
BARATZ, JOAN C. – 1968
THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXPERIMENT WAS TO COMPARE THE LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR OF STANDARD AND NONSTANDARD ENGLISH SPEAKERS WHEN ASKED TO REPEAT STANDARD AND NONSTANDARD SENTENCES. THE SUBJECTS (47 THIRD AND FIFTH GRADERS AT A NEGRO SCHOOL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND 30 OF THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS AT A SUBURBAN MARYLAND SCHOOL) WERE ASKED TO REPEAT 30 TAPED…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Black Dialects, Black Youth, Blacks
Florida State Interagency Committee on Mental Retardation Planning, Tallahassee. – 1965
Information is provided on Florida's mental retardation facilities and programs, and specific recommendations and guidelines are given for the expansion and improvement of services. The following are specified: basic principles for the care of the mentally retarded; recommendations for legislative action, training centers, research, community…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Coordination, Exceptional Child Education
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation. – 1968
Superseding the 1966 issue of "Mental Retardation Publications" and its supplement of 1967, this bibliography annotates 189 items. No publications of private agencies or state and local governments are included. The bibliography is organized into the following sections: general; legislative and federal programs; specific hand capping conditions…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Clinical Diagnosis, Employment, Exceptional Child Education
Barbe, Walter B. – 1965
An overview of educational and psychological literature concerning the gifted is presented in 55 papers with editorial comments. The historical development of the study of the gifted and cultural attitudes are first considered. Discussions of the effectiveness of various screening methods for identifying the gifted include evaluation of creative,…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Achievement, Administration, Advanced Placement
Semmel, Melvyn I.; And Others – 1968
Methods to evaluate central hearing deficiencies and to localize brain damage are reviewed beginning with Bocca who showed that patients with temporal lobe tumors made significantly lower discrimination scores in the ear opposite the tumor when speech signals were distorted. Tests were devised to attempt to pinpoint brain damage on the basis of…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests
President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, DC. – 1967
Yearly statistics are provided to show the increase in services, programs, or personnel for the mentally retarded in the areas of training programs, special education classes, vocational rehabilitation, the foster grandparent program, and diagnostic clinics. The status of 18 programs and their financial need, the decrease in retardation due to…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Day Care
Johnson, Barbara, Ed. – 1977
The handbook provides a compilation of presentations and papers on the development of potential leadership in the education of gifted and talented students. Chapter I, "Certain Criteria Lead Toward Leadership" (P. Judkins), discusses identification of potential leadership characteristics. In Chapter II, "Leading Leaders" (J. Olivero), leadership…
Descriptors: Community Role, Creativity, Definitions, Exceptional Child Education
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. – 1977
Outlined is a state plan to individualize the education of the gifted and talented students in the public schools through acceleration, enrichment, or a combination of both. Sections cover the following programs components: needs assessment, definition of gifted and talented children and youth, the Hawaii Department of Education position…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Budgets, Conceptual Schemes, Educational Policy
