Rehabilitation caseload feasibility in an expanded vocational rehabilitation program was the focus of this study. The general purpose was to investigate the possibility of expanding services to include a wider range of vocationally handicapped persons without lowering the feasibility level of the agency caseload. Two groups of clients received…

The audiological assessment of 50 deaf blind children, 6 months to 14 years of age, in an outpatient setting is described, as are testing procedures and results. Etiological factors are given which include maternal rubella (accounting for 27 children), meningitis, prematurity, neonatal anoxia, and Rh incompatability. Discussed are the following…

The eight major papers from the Workshop on Diagnosis and Evaluation of deaf-blind children focus upon the roles of various professionals who may be involved with deaf-blind children at the diagnostic stage. Topics covered in the role of the pediatrician in diagnosis and evaluation of the deaf-blind child, the role of the ear specialist…

The report describes the Summer Sessions for Preschool, Rubella, Deaf-Blind Children conducted in 1970 and 1971 by the Northwest Regional Center for Deaf-Blind Children in Vancouver, Washington. The summer programs were primarily designed to evaluate preschool deaf-blind children in a learning and living situation. The report is intended not only…

The demonstration project assessed an innovative approach to the provision of remunerative work for evaluation, training, and employment purposes in sheltered workshops for 291 blind individuals who also were limited by vocationally significant intellectual, physical, emotional, and/or social disabilities. The multiply handicapped subgroup of the…

Nine selected proceedings from a study institute discuss program alternatives for the education of deaf mentally retarded (MR) children along with such related issues as identification, size and scope of the problem, instructional approaches, curricular planning, instructional media, program funding sources, and vocational rehabilitation. The…

Presented is the script for a slide show on staff role and training, with emphasis on parent education, in an educational program for preschool children who are educable mentally handicapped and who have at least one other handicapping condition from the areas of hearing, vision, speech, orthopedic, or emotional disturbance. The main project…

Presented is an evaluation of a pre-placement program designed to improve the performance of 15 multi-handicapped blind children (4-10 years old) in activities of daily living, and to involve the parents in the children's education. Among findings reported are that all but one of the Ss improved in activities of daily living as measured by the…

Presented is the final report of a 3-year project to establish a prototype program for the preparation of specialists in the education of deaf-blind multihandicapped children. Brief sections cover the following topics: program objectives (primarily to prepare specialists in deaf-blind education to operate in a variety of roles and work in a…

Subtest scores on the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children did not clearly distinguish learning disabled children from other children in a study; a diagnostic model is proposed here which considers how a child organizes information in order to distinguish between content and behavioral deficiencies. (Editor/MM)

An evaluation of an intensive training program for 44 multiply handicapped adults who could not use other rehabilitation programs is described. (Author/BD)

The article describes the use of an electrical communication system (the Cocom Center Model 25) to establish communication with and more accurately assess an apparently profoundly retarded, nonverbal, 28-year-old spastic quadriplegic female. (Author/PHR)

The Pitch, Loudness, Rhythm, Time, and Tonal Memory subtests of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents were administered to 31 learning disabled (LD) children (10-15 years old) in order to formulate their musical profiles. (Author/BD)

The article presents eight lessons for teaching practical signs to deaf-blind individuals. (CL)