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Download full textBergeth, Robert L. – 1973
The Bryant Youth Educational Support Center (YES) was established in the fall of 1968 to meet the needs of Bryant Junior High students who were socially maladjusted and/or academically underachieving. The primary objectives of the center are to improve basic skills achievement and to modify inappropriate behavior. Approximately 50 students attend…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Education Service Centers
Souma, Alfred M.; And Others – 1974
Presented is a social living curriculum for educable retarded secondary students. Outlined are procedures for teaching the following eight units: self concept and social attitudes, leisure time, communications, safety and first aid, health and physical fitness, citizenship participation, money and financing, vocational and occupational needs, drug…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Exceptional Child Education, Leisure Time, Marriage
Lamphere, Louise – 1975
As we reach the mid-point of the 1970's, we find women in many different positions: working and non-working, middle-class and working class, urban and rural, black and white. There are women with strong ethnic ties or religious orientations, first generation city dwellers and suburbanites. Three factors -- increased female labor force…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Employed Women
Savage, Richard Alvin – 1975
The purpose of this study was to research the effectiveness of a skill building course upon the educational and social survival of black students at a predominantly white middle class suburgan high achool. The subjects involved were two groups of students (N=50) who volunteered for the skill building course. These subjects were identified from…
Descriptors: Adjustment Counselors, Black Students, Counseling Services, Doctoral Dissertations
Myers, James K. – 1976
The effectiveness of the special school, special class, and regular class in the education of low IQ (49 to 70) and high IQ (71 to 85) educable mentally retarded pupils (n=120) (all between the ages of 7 and 12 years) was investigated. Effectiveness was determined by academic achievement, self concept, and social adjustment within school settings…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Differences
Silvernail, Jean Marie – 1974
Coping is defined as the process by which the child attempts to control, synthesize, and make his world manageable. Coping behaviors found in the literature and observed in five preschool classrooms were behaviorally defined to facilitate their identification and observation by trained adults. An instrument designed for use in observation of these…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Coping
Scheer, Ralph M.; And Others – 1969
Education of institutionalized mentally handicapped adolescent males in adjustment to adulthood is explained; program curriculum and evaluation by attendants is reviewed. Course content is outlined in the following areas: grooming for males, social hygiene and sex education, communication and transportation, the individual and the law, current…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, Dating (Social), Exceptional Child Education
Anderson, Robert M., Comp. and Ed. – 1969
The proceedings include explanations of the conference's purpose in the student teaching program at Illinois State University. George Richmond considers the goals and objectives of that program and Cecilia Lauby discusses philosophy, theory, and principles of supervision. Group discussions are reported regarding mentally, physically, visually, and…
Descriptors: Conferences, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Boger, Robert P.; And Others – 1969
This study tests the hypothesis that disadvantaged children learn more from interaction with advantaged children in Head Start classrooms than when grouped solely with other disadvantaged children. Subjects were 32 disadvantaged children who were assigned to two experimental groups of eight each and a control group of 16. Eight advantaged children…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Clapp, William Ford – 1968
This study investigated the relationships between parental treatment of thirty-two 4-year-old girls and the girls' relative competence and dependence. The conduct of the girls and their parents was observed. The parents' child-rearing attitudes were assessed from questionnaires. The following classification scheme was created: parents who treated…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development, Child Rearing
Rigby, Mary E.; Woodcock, Charles C. – 1969
To design a residential school program for multiply handicapped blind children and to develop identifying procedures for prospects for this type of program, 15 children (ages 5 to 13, legally blind, educationally retarded, multiply handicapped) of both sexes were enrolled in a 12 month program. The curriculum was based on a systematic presentation…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Activities, Multiple Disabilities
Maloney, Joseph F. – 1969
Our main difficulty in bridging the generation gap and establishing and maintaining effective communication with youth is our failure to recognize that the accelerated pace of change has resulted in young people being members of a culture substantially different from our own. The effective means for the total control of the environment is now…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Child Rearing, Communication Problems, Cultural Differences
Schools Council, London (England). – 1970
A film, photographs, and this booklet describe a five-week course run for sixty young school leavers or less able students in the summer term of 1967. It took place in a Welsh county borough on a large campus of a working class boys and girls non-selective secondary school. The booklet is in two parts: the first part describes the aims,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Citizenship, Community Schools, Experiential Learning
Keach, Everett T., Jr.; And Others – 1970
The process and concept of social control provide the organizing element around which this unit's activities are centered. In developing the activities, the authors have chosen situations which would help bring the process of social control to the child's consciousness. In teaching this unit, the teacher should realize the tripartite emphasis upon…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Affective Objectives, Early Childhood Education, Group Dynamics
National Consortia for Bilingual Education, Fort Worth, TX.
The Readiness Checklist is a 69-item instrument that provides a measure of the psychomotor development of children. It covers seven main areas: general health, movement patterns and muscular coordination, auditory skills, visual skills, speech and language, personal independence, and social adjustment. The checklist is designed to measure a…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Behavior Patterns, Bilingual Education, Child Development
