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Download full textJones, John Walker – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Blind children are entering the Nation's schools in larger numbers than ever before. In addition to those blinded by usual causes, a new eye condition primarily affecting prematurely born infants swept the Nation between 1945 and 1955, leaving thousands of visually handicapped children. Most of these are attaining school age at this time. There…
Descriptors: Human Body, Blindness, Special Needs Students, Residential Schools
Foster, Emery M.; Iedell, Julia E.; Smith, Rose Marie; Martens, Elias H.; McLeod, Beatrice – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This bulletin provides the sixth chapter of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1930-32, which has been published in separate chapters dealing with specific segments of the educational system. This document explores the impact of the economic depression on the education of exceptional children. Special day schools and classes for exceptional…
Descriptors: Day Schools, Residential Schools, Disabilities, Special Schools
Foster, Emery M.; Martens, Elise H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
For the past decade the Office of Education has periodically compiled statistics dealing with special schools and classes for exceptional children. During that time the importance of adjusting instructional procedures to meet the needs of individual boys and girls has been increasingly stressed in the general philosophy of education. Inherent in…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Teaching Methods, Special Schools, Special Classes
Martens, Elise H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
There are four groups of handicapped children for whom residential schools are generally considered indispensable. These are the blind, the deaf, the mentally deficient, and the socially maladjusted or juvenile delinquents. While each of these groups presents conditions and problems quite distinct from those of the other three, they are all marked…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Physical Disabilities, Epilepsy, Educational Needs
Jones, John Walker – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
Information about developments in the field of education of visually handicapped children and about resources available to assist educators in their efforts to initiate, extend, and improve educational programs for these children appears in a wide variety of pamphlets and professional journals. An attempt is made in this bulletin to summarize…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Vision Tests, Parent Counseling, State Departments of Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
There are three types of schools for the deaf included in this bulletin: (1) Those controlled and supported by the State; (2) Those controlled and financed by private organizations; and (3) Those operated as a part of the city public-school systems. This bulletin provides information for the schools for the deaf from 1917 to 1918. Contents…
Descriptors: Educational History, Special Education, Special Needs Students, Special Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
Volume IV of the 1916-18 Biennial Survey of Education covers the following topic areas: (1) Statistics of Normal Schools; (2) Statistics of Public High Schools; (3) Private High Schools and Academies; (4) Private Commercial and Business Schools; (5) Summer Schools; (6) Nurse Training Schools; (7) Schools and Classes for the Blind; (8) Schools for…
Descriptors: High Schools, Summer Schools, Nursing Education, Public Schools
