P.L. 94-142 is the most significant federal legislation ever passed in regard to exceptional children. It mandates a free and appropriate education, including related services such as counseling (as needed), for every exceptional child up to age 21. The counselor's role may include direct work with children referred for behavioral social adaptive…

This document describes the development of an instrument to identify and diagnose developmental deficits at age 5 and the planning of a deficit centered training curriculum to prevent learning disabilities. An evaluation of the effectiveness of this curriculum, based on measures of the children's developmental growth and their academic achievement…

The monograph is concerned with the development of a prevocational training program that would (1) be therapeutic; (2) introduce activities which provide success; and (3) implement other activities for developing skills, abilities, interests, and social skills. Essential foundations of an effective program in prevocational skill training are…

Randomly assigned 246 African American adolescents either to an educational program or to an 8-week intervention that combined education with behavior skills training. Results indicate that, compared with the education program, youth in behavioral skills training lowered their infection risk to a greater degree, maintained risk reduction changes…

This monograph is intended to help in the creation of effective programs for adolescents with emotional/behavioral disorders (E/BD). Discussion covers techniques for dealing with students placed in special education programs within public school settings and those placed in specialized settings (e.g., day treatment centers). After an introductory…

Passive-aggressive behavior in an emotionally disturbed child affects the child's progress and affects peer interactions in classroom settings. Passive-aggressive personalities are typically helpless, dependent, impulsive, overly anxious, poorly oriented to reality, and procrastinating. The characteristics of passive-aggressive children need to be…

An account is presented of a 6-year-old British girl with Down Syndrome and the efforts of her parents to have her integrated into a regular school rather than segregate her from "normal" society in a special school. Discussed are: the girl's experience at a playgroup of nonhandicapped children; the attitudes and opinions of the parents…

This bulletin is produced annually in the interest of children with specific language disability, learning disabilities, or dyslexia. The 16 articles in this issue deal with the following topics: specific learning disabilities; lateralized tachistoscopic recognition, cerebral dominance, and dyslexia; language proficiency and lateral position in…

A two-year (1977-1979) program was developed to increase mental health services to students and their families in an inner city school. The counseling supervisor from the school district and the director of a mental health agency developed a mobile mental health program. Students and their families were not always able to go to the agency for…

The purpose of the Thresholds project was to encourage and enable mentally ill and/or emotionally disturbed young adults to utilize educational programs, becoming employable, productive, independent, and responsible community members. Part of the project was concerned with the introduction of teachers into the mental health setting teamed with…

This guide describes how to use art media to explore and discover unique personal qualities. Structures and techniques, which can be used in therapy with individuals or growth-oriented groups, are suggested. The book is organized into 10 chapters and 4 parts. Part 1 outlines the theoretical basis for gestalt art experiences. Part 2 discusses the…

This publication presents 98 papers reflecting the goals of the Association for Experiential Education, with roots in adventure education, which promotes the development, practice, and evaluation of experiential learning in all settings. Topics of the papers include: educational practices on all levels, recreation, outdoor adventure programming,…

Results of the 1981-1982 Rutland Center project in Athens, Georgia, which assists agencies in improving services to seriously emotionally disturbed children (2 to 8 years old), are presented, as are program materials, survey forms, and a newsletter. Outcome data are presented regarding therapeutic classroom services provided to 549 severely…

Educational therapy and the procedures for use with neurologically impaired children are discussed. Areas considered are educational evaluation, including information from parents, the actual evaluation, and interpretation of the results; and program planning, including home training of the preschool child and ways in which the child's behavior…

With a speech-language pathologist as consultant, volunteers provided language/concept enrichment to 22 kindergarten students who had low screening scores in the areas of articulation, language, and concepts. Microcomputer software programs were used to teach quantity, quality, time/sequence, nouns, and verbs. Teachers felt that 41 percent of the…