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Download full textMcPherson, Hoyt; Stephens, Thomas M. – 1964
A work experience program for educable mentally handicapped youth in special classes included 215 students, 138 of them in 11th grade (105 boys, 33 girls) and 77 in 12th grade (47 boys, 30 girls). Their mean chronological age was 18-6 years and their mean IQ was 73 with a range of 52 to 82. The program coordinator of the Ohio State Department of…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Child Care Occupations, Custodian Training, Employer Attitudes
American Foundation for the Blind, New York, NY. – 1962
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS CONCERNING RESEARCH WITH THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED ARE CONTAINED IN THIS BULLETIN--"SELECTED IMPAIRMENTS BY ETIOLOGY AND ACTIVITY LIMITATION, UNITED STATES, JULY 1959-JUNE 1961,""AN EXPERIMENT USING REVISED STIMULUS PRESENTATION" BY S. KARP, "EXPERIMENTS IN TACTUAL PERCEPTION" BY S. KARP, "A STUDY OF BRAILLE CODE REVISIONS" BY…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Blindness, Braille
Goodman, Elizabeth M.; Gill, Fobola M. L. – 1966
In 1963, the Washington, D.C. Public School Department began a special demonstration project on the secondary school level, the Webster Girls School Program, to reduce the number of dropouts due to pregnancy and recidivism. An interagency, multidisciplinary plan was devised to provide comprehensive services to the girls. Social case work, academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Child Care, Community Programs
Taylor, Lloyd A. – 1967
Mentally retarded children were studied for their conceptual development and movement from the ability to perceive persons as separate entities but not in significant interaction (aprasia) to group activity. A quasi-projection technique was used to test six groups of 20 boys each, including institutionalized and family-based normals (aged 6 and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Robinson, Jacques H.; And Others – 1966
The usefulness of paced auditory presentation combined with simultaneous visual presentation of lesson material was examined as a technique of improving reading skills in the educable mentally handicapped. A 30-day instructional period involved four groups of students (IQ's 58 to 86, ages 12-11 to 17-11). The groups were as follow: a machine audio…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Instruction, Aural Learning, Educational Technology
Gallagher, James J.; And Others – 1967
A research project attempted to identify and classify productive thought processes of gifted junior high school students and their teachers. Subjects were 176 gifted high achieving students of both sexes with a verbal IQ range of 127.21 to 136.35, a nonverbal IQ range of 122.88 to 134.59, and a chronological age range of 12.50 to 14.63 years. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Miller, Rozelle J. – 1967
Sixty-four emotionally handicapped elementary school students with no neurological defect or subnormal intelligence were randomly assigned to four experimental regular classes, and two contrast special classes. The experimental classes received a modified curriculum utilizing the simulated environments technique through the unit approach in social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Behavior, Behavior Change
Kaufman, Martin J.; And Others – 1973
Project PRIME (Programmed Re-Entry Into Mainstream Education) is concerned with evaluating the effectiveness of programs that aim at integration of handicapped children into regular classrooms. The main goals of the project are to determine which handicapped children can benefit from integration and under which conditions would it prove the most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior, Educational Development, Elementary Education
Schmidt, Paul; And Others – 1962
A 4-year demonstration project at Indianapolis Goodwill Industries applied work adjustment knowledge, methods, and techniques to assist 200 clients, ages 17 to 58 years, mean IQ 90, who were severely disabled with handicaps including mental retardation, epilepsy, emotional disturbance, and/or physical handicaps. After a diagnostic evaluation…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administration, Behavior Rating Scales, Career Counseling
Begab, Michael J. – 1968
To determine the effects of educational experiences on the knowledge of and attitudes toward mental retardation, 279 newly admitted graduate students and 288 graduating students in seven schools of social work completed a personal data sheet, semantic differential rating scales, a knowledge inventory, and a client preference rank order scale.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Educational Experience, Exceptional Child Research
Walder, Leopold O.; And Others – 1968
A program to teach behavioral analysis principles and applications to parents and other caretakers of disturbing children (normal, retarded, neurotic, psychotic, and others) was developed while serving 50 families. A nine-family study was then done comparing three 12-week treatments (minimum contact 1, nonoperant 1, and operant 1) in terms of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Exceptional Child Research
Greenough, Diane – 1968
The ability of 31 institutionalized trainable mentally retarded mongoloid and nonmongoloid subjects (mean IQ=27.5) to comprehend and imitate verbally presented sentences of varying levels of grammatical complexity was examined. Eight stimulus sentences were spoken for four pairs of pictures, simple declarative or kernel, negative, passive, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Deep Structure, Difficulty Level
Zubin, Joseph, Ed.; Jervis, George A., Ed. – 1967
The proceedings include 33 papers and two addresses on the psychopathology of mental development. The following six subject areas are considered: genetics and neurophysiology, socio-cultural and paranatal factors; epidemiology; behavior characteristics and learning; observational techniques and measurement of intelligence; and diagnosis and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biochemistry, Clinical Diagnosis, Congenital Impairments
Bower, Eli M. – 1969
Directed to teachers and other school personnel, the text presents screening procedures to aid in the early identification of the emotionally handicapped. The nature of preventive mental health, emotional handicap, and problems in early identification are considered; also considered are the direction and trends of past research. A study in early…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attendance, Behavior Rating Scales
Thomas, Alexander – 1969
To study the home environment of the Puerto Rican as it relates to the children's academic achievement, 45 working class families were interviewed and these variables were investigated: achievement, classroom behavior inventory in relation to academic achievement, the effect of bilinguality on academic achievement, the influence of examiner…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Bilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
