Presented are results of a 1975-76 survey on the characteristics of residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children, with attention given to comparison of statistics with earlier findings. Statistical data is presented in table form for the following areas: type of ownership, average caseload, expenditures, staffing, geographic…

The annotated bibliography on child abuse contains approximately 75 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1963 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is explained that titles were…

Summarized in the final report is product development of the 5-year Conceptual Project in Child Variance which attempted to organize the literature on emotional disturbance in children through a review of theories and models of child variance, extant interventions, major care delivery systems, and implications for the future. Listed are…

Research papers on behavior modification, presented at the 94th annual meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency, are cited in Volume 2 of a two part series. Presentations by James Gardner, Maurice Dayan, Luke Watson, Robert Wahler, and Robert Conrad are given. Volume 1 (EC 031 272) deals with theoretical papers and complements…

A collection of highly technical scientific articles by international basic and clinical neuroscientists constitutes a review of their knowledge of the brain and nervous system, particularly the aspects related to loss of brain function control and its explosive discharges which cause epileptic seizures. Anatomy, biophysics, biochemistry, and…

The annotated bibliography on research in the area of the gifted and talented contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents selected from the computer file of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Center and published from 1959 to 1973. It is explained that the abstracts are chosen according to…

The study was undertaken to develop casefinding criteria for identifying deaf-blind children. Referral sources and investigative potentials were obtained from a demographic survey of 164 cases of deaf-blind persons in Louisiana. Inquiry sheets on the possible sources of casefinding twice were sent to and ranked by a panel of 20 persons, including…

Presented in the form of 30 tables are statistics on blindness in 16 states which have agreed to uniform definitions and procedures to improve reliability of data regarding blind persons. The data indicates that rates of blindness were generally higher for nonwhites than for whites with the ratio ranging from almost 10 for glaucoma to minimal for…

Presented is a programatic organization model which is applied to research needs in special education. Major advantages of the model are given to be that of providing for several research activities which focus on one common problem, reducing the duplication of research effort, providing greater efficiency in use of research personnel and…

The study investigated achievement motivation of children with learning and behavior problems and examined effects of various types of verbal instruction on performance tasks and the resulting relationships of these verbal instructions to achievement motivation. The subjects were 48 third and fourth grade children diagnosed as having learning…

Eye movements of 18 male and seven female dyslexic children and 10 normal children were evaluated to determine if eye movement disorders may be the cause of some of the symptoms associated with dyslexia. Data on eye movements were collected while Ss moved their eyes from one fixation point to another in a nonreading situation. Errors in vertical…

The bibliography of research on the visually handicapped covers approximately 1,300 entries published between the years 1953 and 1971, inclusive. Only those references containing reports of research on the visually handicapped in which empirical data of some kind were collected are included. Studies of single cases are included, with most studies…

Reported are results of a needs assessment study of handicapped children in Oregon undertaken to provide the Oregon State Department of Education with information concerning the most pressing educational needs within each handicapping group as defined by state law. Needs are summarized for each handicapping category, and across handicapping…

The selected bibliography of research on the educable mentally handicapped contains approximately 100 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of July, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the…

Investigated with 110 university students taking an introductory gifted education course were the relationships between sex, three instructional levels (elementary, secondary, and special education), and reasons for taking the course. Data was collected over a 4-year period. Six reasons for taking the course were identified, which included that…