Provided is a practicum report on a travel training program initiated at the Ray Graham Training Center (Chicago, Illinois) for 40 trainable mentally handicapped young adults. The center is described in terms of the geographic area and clients served, staff roles, parent role, and curriculum. It is noted that a prime impetus for the development of…

Suggestions for curriculum development for educable mentally handicapped, visually handicapped students aged 13 to 18 years are presented. A discussion of communication skills includes the areas of listening, oral communication, reading, writing, and spelling and teaching methods for each. The goals of the computation skills sequence, basic…

The curriculum guide defines its organization and use, curricular approach, and the teaching methodology for special classes of slow learners (educable mentally handicapped) in the Cincinnati Public Schools. The instructional program is build around 12 persisting life problems; health, safety, communication, citizenship, family life, social…