How a university-based research and development center (Center for Innovation in Teaching the Handicapped, Indiana University) deals with the problems of disseminating its products with a lack of funds for dissemination activities is explained. (BD)

The author, the parent of two severely mentally handicapped children, describes her sons' (11 and 13 years old) needs and how they could be met by media materials and functional aids. (BD)

Presented at the First Northwest Special Remedial Education Workshop at Terrace, November, 1977, the article discusses, in light of the increasing trend toward mainstreaming, written individualized education programs (IEPs), which the author feels should be provided to all handicapped children in need of special education and related services. (D…

Presented is a synopsis of three studies still in progress on the achievement of hearing impaired students in British Columbia, covering reading and mathematics, spelling, and syntactic ability. (DLS)

Discussed is the trend in British Columbia, Canada, towards diversification of secondary special education programs, which in the past were restricted to occupational programs that became "dumping grounds" for all types of problem students. (DLS)

Presented is a review of past research on the effects of teacher behavior on student achievement and attitudes, along with implications for special education programs. (DLS)

Two autistic boys, ages 6 and 10 years, whose imitative responding was functionally inaccurate and whose performance generalized poorly, were trained to imitate accurately using a reinforcement-extinction strategy. (DLS)

Discussed is the role in special education of behavior therapy as an effective technology for dealing with the problems presented by a physical handicap. (DLS)

Presented is a paradigm for teaching basic and semibasic arithmetic facts to children with arithmetic difficulties, in which the student progresses from the use of concrete materials such as blocks, to the use of diagrams such as tally marks, to a reasoning process, to responding in an automatic manner. (DLS)

The article, an abridged version of the keynote address to the CORE Conference, May, 1977, discusses the ultimate ends, motives, and goals of special education, which the author believes to be an ignored but crucial topic. (DLS)

The author details differences in programs for emotionally disturbed children among three communities of different size and socioeconomic status. (SBH)

Questionnaires were sent to classroom teachers and parents of children (5-14 years old) in the Vancouver City (Canada) school system to determine the unmet need for psychiatric services. (SBH)

The article outlines five steps to follow in implementing a successful tutor program for children with special educational needs. (SBH)

The paper looks at perinatal and school programs for preventing the occurrence of handicapping conditions that are in operation in some European countries, and discusses what is currently taking place in British Columbia through medicine and education. (Author/SBH)