Described are techniques and activities for introducing the concept and teaching the use of the metric system to upper elementary learning disabled, educable mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed students. (CL)

Efforts to open up the Lexington School for the Deaf have been aided by such actions as offering the use of school facilities to community groups, incorporating trained volunteers into the program, mainstreaming students into regular public school classes, and enrolling normally hearing children in the Lexington School classes. (CL)

A teacher describes her experiences in attempting to reintegrate elementary grade learning and behavior problem students into the mainstream of school activities, and emphasizes the importance of positive attitudes toward exceptional children in the school. (CL)

Sample poems written by blind, deaf, physically handicapped and severely retarded students are provided to demonstrate that handicapped children can complement their functional learning experiences with creative writing activities which may incorporate sensory stimulation and creative dramatics in a small group setting. (CL)

Described is a reading program designed to extend and refine the reading skills of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders who were already competent readers through units on study skills, the newspaper, speech, social studies, science, poetry, the short story, and drama. (GW)

Discussed is the use of videotapes with cerebral palsied children as an evaluation measure in cases where standardized tests fail to indicate growth, as an ongoing source of relevant teaching material for teachers and students, and as a way of bringing parents to a realistic comprehension of their own children. (GW)

Identified are misconceptions of behavior modification procedures according to which behavior modification is connected mistakenly with noncontingent reinforcement, partial change of a teacher's behavior, decelerations of inappropriate behaviors only, dependency producing technology, teacher dominated activity, a single type of classroom…

An activity center was established in a special school to give educable mentally retarded adolescents and primary level children experience in social competency, money, time, and measurement skills. (MC)

A guide for special teachers to use in selecting instructional materials contains nine steps. (MC)

Disadvantaged, language handicapped, or visually impaired children can make puppets in class and use them to improve language development or raise self concept. (MC)

Fifteen administrative staff members in Prince George's County Public School System, Maryland, volunteered to teach a senior high special education class for one day after receiving an invitation from the Special Education Department. (MC)

The parent of a 2 1/2-year-old language handicapped boy describes the therapist's and her own prescriptive teaching techniques during a 1-year period. (MC)