This analysis sought to determine the extent to which therapeutic recreation service is indeed a service as compared to a theoretical model of service delivery. (MM)

A group of 18 mentally retarded adults from a private residential facility were transferred to a transitional living environment before possible deinstitutionalization. (Author)

The differential diagnosis of learning disabilities (LD) and emotional or behavioral disorders is complicated by the high incidence of concomitant emotional or behavioral disorders in LD children. (DB)

Examined practice of grade retention and its effects in two Utah school districts in 102 students recommended for retention. Showed retention did not benefit the children academically, personally, or socially. Reanalysis showed retention did not benefit these subgroups of children: children receiving supplementary instruction, children of average…

Three models of intentional therapeutic communities for troubled youth are described: psychiatric communities, communities with a spiritual orientation, and collectives inspired by A. Makarenko. Applications of the Makarenko model with adolescents having problems of substance abuse and serious social maladjustment in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark…

The author reports results from the Bristol Social Adjustment Guide and the Rutter Children's Behaviour Questionnaire for 42 hearing-impaired children aged 7 to 16 years who attend public school. Results are compared with those of hearing students and with those of hearing-impaired children in special school. (CH)

Describes case study approach that developed a profile of incarcerated Mexican nationals in a Federal Bureau of Prisons correctional facility as intelligent, complex, highly motivated, and resourceful. Examines Mexican inmates' social and cultural adaptation to prison and suggests that institutional staff be trained to recognize life essence of…

An approach to planning and teaching that emphasizes individual success in music could begin to provide the necessary social antidotes to inappropriate mainstreaming situations. Such an approach is discussed. (RM)

Books can help children develop a positive self-image and feelings of self-confidence. To aid in the development of a child's shades of self (personal, social, and ideal), a list of books is offered. (DF)

Interviews conducted with 30 disabled adults having varying degrees of orthopedic and spinal cord disabilities, deafness, and severe visual impairments revealed that 50 percent of the congenitally disabled would choose surgery guaranteed to completely cure the disability, and 50 percent opted for no surgery, fearing change in their satisfying…

Describes the situations children face when their families move and suggests how teachers and program developers should arrange activities to help children adjust in the new society. (CI)

Investigated how individuals perceive others who systematically vary in both level of disclosure and disclosure flexibility. Subjects were 52 students rated high or low in self-disclosure and disclosure flexibility. Found a similarity effect for disclosure flexibility and highest ratings for medium-high disclosure and high disclosure flexibility…

The development of new information sources of matriculating college freshmen follows the general pattern of initially desiring academically related news and within a month desiring campus social news. During the freshman year, an increase in the consumption of general news nearer the student's campus residence occurs. (Author)

This paper examines the hypothesis that residential mobility is disruptive of social relations; and it seeks to identify patterns of adaptation which emerge from that disruption. Women who moved between 1966 and 1969 were more frequently sociable both before and after their move than those who did not move. Spatial mobility, does exert changes on…

Studied was the functioning of 12 retarded married couples in which both partners evidenced some degree of mental retardation (IQs ranged from 40 to 84). (DB)