Reported are the results of informal telephone interviews with staff members of four research and development centers serving handicapped children. (DB)

Discussed are implications of litigation concerned with the accountability of professionals serving handicapped persons. (DB)

Reported is a survey of 30 practicing teachers enrolled in a graduate level competency based special education teacher preparation course. (DB)

Compared were the effects of small group instruction and cross-age tutorial instruction on 29 learning disabled, educable retarded, or emotionally disturbed elementary school children in a resource room setting. (Author/MC)

Described is an educational program to serve a heterogeneous population of mentally retarded children excluded from other treatment programs. (Author/MC)

Summarized are problems and procedures involved in the 3-year development of a competency based graduate level instructional program to prepare curriculum consultants for the education of exceptional children. (MC)

The study determined the sociometric status in elementary school regular classes of 40 former special class educable mentally retarded children who participated in an integrative resource room program. (Author)

The sexuality of exceptional persons is examined in relation to changes in social attitudes and reasons for providing sex education and guidance. (MC)

Reported are ideas, issues, and concerns discussed by 40 participants in a work conference on the culturally different gifted child in South Carolina, September, 1973. (MC)

Six trainable and six educable retarded children demonstrated television preference by pressing keys to select "Sesame Street", "Misterogers' Neighborhood", "Captain Kangaroo", and no program. (MC)

Thirteen high school students were trained by an undergraduate psychology student daily in 6-hour sessions for one week and subsequently modified behaviors of five severely retarded children. (MC)

Twenty-nine 10-year-old educable mentally retarded Ss in a resource room program were matched on age, intelligence and reading level (preprimer) with 41 special class controls to determine the efficacy of the resource room as an alternative to special classes. (MC)

Two special classes, each containing eight educable mentally retarded students, 9 and 10 years of age, respectively, played a group discussion game twice a week for 3 consecutive weeks in which the teachers presented a discussion topic and reinforced specified good discussion behaviors with high points. (MC)