The Trainable Workshop is a vocational training program for secondary level trainable mentally handicapped students in a rural public school setting. The key component to the program is the development of students' sense of worthiness through accomplishment. The supervisor's role is to manipulate the workshop environment to reinforce and develop…

The paper describes services in the Memphis (Tennessee) City Schools serving autistic and emotionally disturbed students. Two separate programs are identified and described: a day program for emotionally disturbed students 6-14 years old, and a residential program for autistic students 4-21 years old. The day program is designed to help students…

Two current approaches to the conceptualization and treatment of depression have received considerable attention from the scientific community. The cognitive approach (Beck) posits that depression derives from negatively distorted beliefs that must be challenged in the context of cognitive therapy until they are replaced with positive and…

Two groups of 20 mentally retarded boys (10-to 14-years old) were presented with an adapted version of the Royal Canadian Air Force Physical Fitness Training Program. (GW)

The study investigates the relative efficacy of self-monitored and externally imposed reinforcement in intrinsically motivated and extrinsically motivated children, grades two through five. Results show the importance of individual differences in children's dispositions to respond to incentive conditions. (JH)

Describes a method of positive reinforcement used by school social worker to increase a child's ability to follow directions. Not only did the child become a better student, but she was also able to interact more with her peers, something she had not done before. (HMV)

Suggests more stringent use of task analysis in identifying and teaching reading subskills and the use of reinforcement contingencies which make it worthwhile for the child to tolerate frustration when teaching remedial reading to children with low frustration tolerance levels. (TO)

Suggested for improvement of academic and social behaviors of learning disabled elementary school children is the Home School Communication Program (used successfully with over 1,000 children in kansas city), which involves teacher assessment of student behaviors daily on 10 cards and parental dispensing of privileges to students for satisfactory…

Presents a study which investigated the sources of control over behavior: internal or environmental. Results are discussed in terms of the Theory of Propositional Control. (DP)

The study evaluated the effectiveness of positive social teacher approval contingent upon prosocial behavior by two abused preschoolers toward peers with similar background. Using a single subject ABAB research design, results supported the relationship between positive social teacher approval and increased positive student behavior, decreased…

This paper briefly describes a parent education program in a private pediatric office, including some of the concerns parents have brought to the program and their perception of the advice received. Some of the main problems include negative behaviors, toileting, developmental delays, school problems, sleeping difficulties, personality problems,…

Students in four university classes in educational psychology were used as the target population to study the effect of two factors, degree of effort exerted studying a subject, and written feedback from the instructor, on the cognitive and affective attitudes these students formed toward the subject and their assignments. The students, unaware…