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Simulation Activities As A Means Of Changing Attitudes And Transmitting Knowledge Of Adaptations And Techniques For Handicapped Individuals To Teacher Trainees, Jo-Alyce K. Peterson

Dissertations

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The Design, Implementation, And Evaluation Of A Program To Train Educational Advocates, Sue Ann Carpenter

Masters Theses

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Resource Room Students' I.Q. Scores As A Factor In Reading Gains During And Following Treatment, Paul John Olivas

Special Education ETDs

Statement of the Problem

The purpose of this study was to compile and analyze reading achievement test scores and I.Q. test scores taken by students in a resource room program and in a one year follow-up period to determine if I.Q. was a relevant factor in sustaining long-term achievement gains.

The Qualifications Of Special Education Teachers In New Mexico, Carol M. Garland

Special Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of training of the special education teachers in New Mexico in 1973-74, The certifica­tion files of the New Mexico State Education Depart­ment, Division of Certification were utilized to determine how many teachers were teaching on letters of authority and how many were fully certified.

The state was divided into four areas for comparison. The northeast region had 23.2% of the teachers under letters of authority; the southeast had 23.3% of the teachers under letters of authority; the southwest had 27.8% under letters of authority; and the northwest had 29.7% under …

The Relationship Of Divorce To Recidivism Of Adjudicated Juveniles In Bernalillo County, Audrey M. Lietzow

Special Education ETDs

Because educational treatment or educational provision will not always be predicated on etiology, this investigation has sought to provide inquiry into some of the reasons children may deviate. The education of the exceptional child is at times not complete as the cause of the emotional disturbance is not dealt with. The concern of this study is the home from which emotionally disturbed youngsters emanate. When underling reasons for the emotional disturbance have not been handled, often youngsters will deviate and come before the courts. If intervention is imposed in the school setting, but the basic problem has not been managed, …

Self Reporting Of The Student's Self-Concept Concerning His Academic And Social Interactions In The Boy's Correctional Institute Of New Mexico, Edgar Wayne Briggs

Special Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic and social self-concept by means of a self-reporting basis among a sample of teenage boys, ranging from 13 to 18 years, in the New Mexico Boys School. The population was randomly selected from boys placed in the Materials Resource Lab for those functioning in at least one or more deficit areas below the fifth grade level. The diagnostic tests relied upon for placement in the resource lab were the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) and the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT). These boys came from all over the state …

The Efficacy Of A Systematic Eye Contact Program As Applied To A Class Of Trainable Mentally Handicapped Students, James D. Raborn

Special Education ETDs

The importance of an operantly structured eye contact program for the severely emotionally disturbed, trainable mentally handicapped, and profoundly mentally handicapped has been overlooked by researchers and teachers alike. Intensive literature searches reap but a handful of related material, of which only a few provide a viable means of teaching eye contact skills. One question that has been repeatedly neglected by researchers, and epeciall teachers, is “why” teach eye contact. The basic need of eye contact in communication is known to all of us. It must be realized that in most instances the young trainable mentally handicapped student requires eye …

The Philosophy And Goals Of A Farm-Living Group Home For Mentally Retarded Citizens In The State Of Washington: A Working Plan Of Implementation, Max R. Grimmett

All Graduate Projects

Group homes were established as a result of House Bill #465 passed by the Washington State Legislature in 1969. The purpose of this bill was to make it possible for some people living in state institutions to move into smaller and more "homelike" places.

The purpose of the study was to determine what has been done in the area of group homes under the Washington State Guidelines. A study was made of the existing group homes and the programs offered at the present time. After collecting data, a plan was developed to create a proposed farm-living group home for mentally …

Comparison Of Special Education Teachers' And Elementary Education Teachers' Attitudes Toward Specific Class Labels, Louis Denti

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Optimum Learning In Regular Classrooms Project In Charleston, Illinois, Patricia Tucker Chaney

Masters Theses

The Optimum Learning in Regular Classrooms Project is an adoptive-adaptive ESEA Title IV-C project with two purposes: (1) to provide more effective educational service to children with special needs through training the mainstream teacher to diagnose these special needs as well as implement solutions for such children on an ongoing basis, and (2) to provide more efficient support services to the mainstream teacher in his/her efforts to meet the special needs of exceptional children, whether handicapped or gifted.

Four main aspects of the project are examined:

Classroom organization. All classrooms were organized at least in part into learning centers. This …