Helpful techniques are offered for making bathtime easier, safer, and more fun for children who have cerebral palsy. Safety in the bathtub is stressed, both for the child who needs protection from slippery surfaces and extreme water temperature, and for the caregiver who must lift and carry the child without causing injury to the lower back.…

Developed as part of Delta College's Parent Awareness Program, this manual offers parents and family members of handicapped children explanations of the following conditions: mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, learning disabilities, and autism. In the first section, "Special Parenting Information," Gerri Caesar describes her own…

Intended primarily for library staff in a public library, the guide presents information about major types of disabilities. Information includes definitions and a discussion of characteristics, suggestions for interaction, lists of professional readings and books for children and adults, names and addresses of related agencies (including local…

A congenitally blind boy 2 months old, a Down's syndrome girl 4 months old, and a cerebral palsied boy 14 months old were studied in depth to evaluate the impact of an early intervention program focusing on parent training. All three children progressed and achieved near or above normal functioning for their ages within a 4 to 5 month period.…

The report contains 12 author contributed chapters concerned with special athletic opportunities for individuals with handicapping conditions. The monograph begins with a detailed treatment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 followed by descriptions of athletic programs developed by various groups. Remaining chapters are concerned…

This document contains the proceedings from the National Conference on Developmental Disabilities and Gerontology, a conference designed to develop guidelines for program development on national, state, and local levels; develop and disseminate a proceedings publication; and provide an interface between professionals working at national, state,…

Contingent social reinforcement was applied differentially to aid the behavioral and educational development of a 9-year-old severely retarded nonverbal female with quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy. Four behaviors prerequisite and collateral to beginning language development were defined and measured: eye contact, head control, initiative…

The directory identifies resources which provide services to cerebral palsied, epileptic, and mentally retarded citizens of Florida. Listed are names and addresses of Divison of Retardation facilities; private agencies such as the Florida Association for Retarded Children, the Epilepsy Foundation of America, and United Cerebral Palsy of Florida;…

This study hypothesizes that: (1) stereotypic attitudes which normal persons hold toward handicapped persons will be multidimensional; (2) some of the multidimensional components will be general across all handicaps while others will be specific to each handicap; and (3) those components of stereotypic attitudes towards handicapped persons which…

In a letter to her six-year-old's kindergarten teacher, a parent discusses the child's (who has cerebral palsy) use of communication devices for expressive language and ways in which the teacher can help the child adjust and learn in such areas as "wait time," spontaneous conversation, and peer relationships. (CB)

Parents describe how the Disabled Students' Program at the University of California-Berkeley supported their daughter with cerebral palsy in pursuing an independent college career. Two vignettes describing college students' (with muscular dystrophy and physical disabilities) adjustment at Boston University are presented. (CB)

Twenty-one papers on caring for children with cerebral palsy are organized into four sections, including: (1) cerebral palsy and the interdisciplinary team approach; (2) management of impairments related to cerebral palsy; (3) preventing disability by optimizing function of the child with cerebral palsy; and (4) preventing handicap by creating…

Discussed is the use of videotapes with cerebral palsied children as an evaluation measure in cases where standardized tests fail to indicate growth, as an ongoing source of relevant teaching material for teachers and students, and as a way of bringing parents to a realistic comprehension of their own children. (GW)

Home management students aid couple with cerebral palsy in solving home management problems with a systems approach. (AG)