In order to determine whether speed listening practice could improve comprehension of pitch-altered rapid speech, 66 high school students blind since at least age 6 were divided into experimental (E) and control (C) groups, matched on the basis of age (range 15 to 19 years), IQ (range 85 to 130), and pretest comprehension of material presented at…

The Independent Living Rehabilitation Program provided non-residential community rehabilitation to meet the personal, vocational, and social needs of seriously mentally handicapped young adults. After both an initial and an 8-week evaluation period, 75 enrollees were admitted for up to 2 years of training. Of the 75, 57% were classified as…

The 35 years' followup of the Terman investigation on the gifted child is presented. In order to describe the gifted group of mid-life, a general information blank was mailed in 1950 (1,437 subjects) and in 1955 (1,424 subjects). The field study, completed in 1952, included personal interviews, the Concept Mastery Test, supplementary…

The report documents a 1974-1975 evaluation of Dade County, Florida's resource class program and the Early Childhood Preventive Curriculum (ECPC/LD) for learning disabled (LD) students. Data are said to have been obtained from regular class teachers, LD resource teachers, parents of LD students, student records, and scores from the Wide Range…

Summarized are findings and reported in tables are data from the 1975-76 evaluation of Pennsylvania's special education services for 2,308 trainable and educable mentally retarded, physically handicapped, brain injured, and socially and emotionally disturbed elementary and secondary students. It is explained that measures of student progress…

Presented are 20 author contributed papers on the status of deaf persons, their needs, and innovative procedures developed to meet those needs, and reported are research and demonstration activities in the field of deafness. Among topics covered in the papers are: economic factors in deafness, training needs of rehabilitative personnel serving…

Presented is the fifth in a series of reports on a 4-year longitudinal evaluation of preschool programs for hearing impaired children. It is explained that the seven programs studied emphasize either an oral-aural, Rochester (oral-aural plus finger spelling), or total communication method of instruction; and that the current report focuses on the…

Presented in the first of three volumes is a summary and evaluation of the Life Skills for the Developmentally Disabled Project which was designed to prevent inappropriate institutional placement and to assist in deinstitutionalization of individuals in Forest Haven, the District of Columbia's Center for the developmentally disabled. It is…

Existing instruments for assessing brain damaged physically handicapped children are examined, and research on test modifications in the cognitive, communication, and motor performance domains is reviewed. Noted is the lack of tests standardized on a physically handicapped population. Cautions and criticisms are cited for modifications which have…

Described is a project involving 37 severely emotionally disturbed, behavior disordered, or autistic children (4-16 years old) which focused on the provision of short term, intensive special educational class placement for children who otherwise would have been extruded from regular school programs into hospital or residential (psychiatric) school…

Seventy-two deaf Ss (10- to 19-years-old) were tested, employing the Test of Syntactic Ability (TSA), the language sub-tests of the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT), and analyses of written language samples, in a study of the influence of early language and communication environment on their later syntactic language ability. Ss were divided into…

Described in the final report is a project designed to develop, field-test, and disseminate a dual, compatible system of curriculum and criterion-referenced evaluation based on a sample of 40 trainable mentally retarded students (5-15 years old) in self help, basic language, number, and prevocational skills. Program summary information includes a…

To disseminate inquiry training methods and materials, the project produced instructional films on the methods, prepared a teacher's manual, and conducted an institute to train teachers and administrators in the procedures. Twenty educators from 11 school districts were enrolled in the summer institute as team members and were trained for 4 weeks…

The proceedings, as reported by a science writer, consider family components of retardation. Stephen Richardson presents some study findings on family components in mental retardation; Bernard Farber surveys the family relationships of institutionalized and non-institutionalized retarded children; and Irving Tallman discusses family theory as it…

To investigate the interrelationships between creativity and seven variables, 74 students in grades 4 through 8 plus the vocational group at a school for the deaf were tested. In addition to creativity, subjects were tested for intelligence, academic achievement, imaginative productions, perception by teachers, self-evaluation career aspirations,…