A reading program utilizing five components (a shortcut to phonemic awareness, Adapted Dolch words, Bridge lists and the Bridging process, reading comprehension, and American Sign Language development/language experience stories) resulted in dramatic gains in the reading levels of 48 elementary students at a residential school for the deaf.…

L3 is an intertribal residential school enrolling approximately 200 students in grades 5-8 from tribes in the northern Midwest. As a result of successful grant-writing which espoused Circle of Courage and Asset-Building, the school built up an impressive configuration of programs funded by a variety of sources, including a cadre of mental health…

This food manual for small Idaho residential child care institutions with 10-15 students and no full-time cook, is designed to help directors serve meals that promote healthy eating behavior in their residents, serve meals that meet the USDA's Healthy School Meals Initiative, and manage the food service to assure the fiscal integrity of the…

In a question-and-answer format, this pamphlet offers a rationale for having students with dyslexia attend a junior boarding school. The information focuses on: criteria for determining appropriateness of a specialized boarding program; most appropriate age for referral; helping parents deal with their anxiety; benefits of a boarding school over…

The paper is a description of how one teacher structured a classroom for five seriously disturbed violent boys (ages 5.5 to 8 years) at a private residential and day school for emotionally disturbed students. Anecdotes are reported as well as the teacher's reflections. Changes in the teacher's original planned class structure while maintaining the…

To determine the feasibility of establishing model residential vocational schools to serve the needs of disadvantaged youth between the ages of 14 and 21, self evaluation questionnaires and on-site evaluations designed to gain information on organization and administration, instruction, student services, and finances and staff were administered at…

Described photographically and textually in the brochure are the educational, vocational, and social needs of deaf mentally retarded (DMR) children and adults. The DMR person is discussed in relation to the double handicap which precludes educational benefits from a traditional program, secondary problems such as visual handicaps, and incidence…

The relationship betwen different rates of compressed speech and learning efficiency was examined in 35 blind residential high school students. (Author/BD)

The article describes the history of educational programs for deaf children, predicts that deaf education will become more closely aligned with general education, notes shifts in student placement from residential to public mainstreamed settings, and describes several Gallaudet University programs involved in research, training, and outreach to…

Administrators from 98 residential schools for mentally retarded students, surveyed about parent participation, reported that 43 percent of parents participated in education programing. A sizable core of administrators believed that parents should not be involved in admissions (22 percent), medical decisions (19 percent), program monitoring (24…

The Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF), based in Ottawa (Ontario), works with Canada Native communities to reduce incidents of physical and sexual abuse, children in care, suicide, and incarceration among residential school survivors and their families. This guide has been prepared to help communities evaluate their AHF-funded activities in the…

Financial statements from public residential schools in all 50 states (some states list more than one school) give tabular data concerning income, expenditures, enrollment, estimated per capita cost, teaching days, and teachers' salaries for 1972-1973. (MC)

Described is a college course involving clinical teaching in a residential setting by seniors majoring in the education of socially and emotionally maladjusted children. (GW)