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A Study Of The Educational Opportunities Offered Handicapped Children By The Public Schools In New Mexico, Pearl Esther Thompson Apr 1956

A Study Of The Educational Opportunities Offered Handicapped Children By The Public Schools In New Mexico, Pearl Esther Thompson

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The purpose of this study is to survey the educational opportunities provided for handicapped children by the public schools in New Mexico in 1954-1955.

This study also seeks to list the legal regulations governing the establishment of such school programs for handicapped children in different cities and towns in the state; the number of children who are receiving instruction in the different school districts within the state; to evaluate the present facilities in regard to their adequacy of educational training for these children; and to determine what five selected cities in the United States are doing for handicapped children in …