Reported are the activities of the Inter Agency Committee on the Education and Vocational Rehabilitation of the Handicapped in New Jersey for the year 1974-1975. The purposes and functions of the committee are listed, and the Inter Agency conference held in October, 1974 is described. Included are copies of the invitation and the program,…

Analyzed were the consumer behaviors of 22 institutionalized retarded clients in a sheltered workshop token economy. (CL)

Reported is the accreditation process of a southern California mental health facility, which involved the aid of an external consultant. (BD)

The Gleaner's Project, a model for providing extended sheltered employment for severely retarded adults in rural areas, is suggested; and the advantages, both economic and humanitarian, of the proposed model over more traditional approaches are discussed. (Author/SBH)

A prevocational program was designed for 10 trainable mentally handicapped teenagers (14 to 19 years old) which simulated the tasks of actual sheltered workshops. (GW)

A social skills training program using self-instruction to facilitate the acquisition and generalization of two social behaviors in the work setting effectively increased the percentages of occurrence of target behaviors for five mentally retarded employees working in a sheltered workshop. The training generalized across work settings. (Author/CB)

The consumer behaviors of 22 adult institutionalized retarded clients in a sheltered workshop token economy were evaluated by changing prices in the workshop store. (Author/DB)

A scale was constructed to test Hershenson's 1968 formulation that in vocational development, self-differentiation precedes competence, which precedes independence, which in turn precedes commitment. Staff ratings on scale items related to each stage were made on 222 clients in a deaf rehabilitation project, who were divided into high- and…

Research was conducted to determine differences between groups of trainable mentally handicapped persons using the service of a sheltered workshop and groups which did not use the service, both of which were composed of persons who attended day school until they were 18 years of age. (GW)

This program at New York School for the Deaf serves students of average intelligence and slow reading ability between ages 15 and 21. The program gives students both the expertise available in a school for the handicapped and a practical education combined with a mainstreamed vocational setting and appropriate career guidance. (PB)

The article describes the efforts of Project PATH (Progressive Approach to Training and Habilitation) to design a comprehensive training program for moderately and severely retarded adults in a sheltered workshop setting. (SBH)