A method is presented which permits teachers to use volunteers to conduct programed instruction and use behavior modification methods in preschool settings for severely handicapped children. (KW)

Investigated were the effects of visual or complete seclusion on the academic task performance of brain injured mentally retarded, cultural familial mentally retarded, and normal children of comparable MA. (KW)

Described are uses of ceramics in educational programs of broad application to handicapped, particularly, mentally retarded, children. Benefits in social, emotional, and mental growth are identified. (Author/KW)

Previewed are two products: Dimensions II, based on responses of the 50 state directors of special education queried about special education services and problems in their states, and Speaking Over Barriers, a program for teaching telephone skills to the mentally retarded. (KW)

Discusses a program conducted at 50-50 High School" in Brooklyn which utilized non-print materials to teach basic literacy skills. (Editor)

Reviews current adolescent literature and finds the emphasis is on the theme of alienation. He puts it in the context of larger society and examines examples of the trend- which turn out to be most of the substantive titles of recent note. (Editor/RB)

Reviews McDougal, Littell's Language of Man", and finds it to be perhaps the best language series developed for the secondary market in recent years. (Editor)

Includes 9 articles: Cultural Changes and Leisure Time; Leisure and the American Worker; Communication/Interpretation; New Concepts of Leisure Today; The Innocence of Leisure; Charter for Leisure; Retirement as Leisure; The Year Round School and Recreation; The Community School and Recreation. (NQ)

Suggests how to get classes to interact and participate in an experience together through the use of an Exploration Grid. (RB)