The critical incident technique was used to identify desirable teaching and advising competencies for special education professors. (Author/DB)

Discussed are problems which impede the development and effectiveness of resource programs to serve mildly handicapped children in rural schools including lack of organizational readiness, system shock, interpersonal roadblocks, and the shortage of competent resource teachers. (DB)

Summarized were results of an analysis of placement factors with 7,427 children enrolled in primary and intermediate classes for the educable mentally retarded in Virginia during 1971-72. (DB)

Compared were the classroom behaviors of 45 first grade children in either low, middle, or high reading ability groups. (DB)

Examined are the roles and progress over the past 3 years of state councils on developmental disabilities, as established by the Developmental Disabilities Act of 1970. (Author/DB)

Speech sound discrimination was assessed using a bilingual perspective with 32 Black, 32 White, and 32 Puerto Rican first and second grade children from a lower socioeconomic background. (Author/DB)

Reviewed are the provisions of the Headstart, Economic Opportunity Community Partnership Act of 1974 which amended an earlier law to require that 10 percent of children enrolled in Head Start programs within each state be handicapped. (DB)

Thirty special educators were interviewed and asked to identify milestone events and pioneers in special education and to describe the development and role of teacher education, research, and The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) over the years. (DB)

The author examines the concept of advocacy as a new helping relationship. (Author)

An examination of special education practices relative to secondary work study programs for the educable mentally retarded reveals sex biases in favor of the male enrollees. (Author/SB)

The growth of special education is historically reviewed from the 19th century to the present. (SB)