This study was an attempt to utilize creative dramatic with three groups of exceptional elementary school children: deaf, learning handicapped, and gifted. Each group consisted of, seven to ten children between ages 9-11. Seven sessions were conducted . . .

The Worcester Public Schools' Program for the Hearing Impaired has been in existence for more than thirty years. In the 1985-86 school year, the program served thirty-eight deaf students from in and around Worcester County, and practices the philosoph . . .

A study was conducted to determine the effects of a correctional reading program at a private reading clinic on the attitudes of elementary-age remedial reading students toward five selected concepts. The study also investigated the relationship betwe . . .

A survey of the literature is used to discover the attitudes and values of the Mexican American population. The background of this segment of our society was researched in terms of numbers, prejudice, economic factors and political factors both past a . . .

The purpose of this study was to discover some of the attitudes of the students to the standards of conduct at an evangelical liberal arts college. This was accomplished by conducting a survey of randomly selected students by means of a written questi . . .

This study investigated the relationship between a reading program devised by American Learning Corporation and implemented at a Los Angeles public school during 1972-75 and the reading achievement test scores of the participating students. The identi . . .

The Stull Bill, requiring uniform standards of evaluation in all California School Districts, became law in 1971. This study was designed to analyze the bill in terms of existing knowledge in the fields of teacher competence and evaluation, and to rev . . .

Open education, the integrated day, the develop- mental classroom, informal education: these phrases refer to an educational movement that began in England and that is now growing in the United States. The traditional classrooms which exist in . . .

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in the understanding of mental retardation, early identification and diagnosis, education and training, prevention and treat- ment, and research. However, most mentally retarded persons are said to . . .

The need for counselors to justify their existence in today's (1974) secondary school programs is for the most part unnecessary. School counselors have become accepted and integral members of the school staff. Evidence of this acceptance can be fou . . .

Research presented in this paper shows that a definite need exists for post-graduate inservice education in the area of the diagnostic and prescriptive teaching of reading. This paper describes the planning, initiation and implementation of a reading . . .

As early as 1925, Frederick Maurice Hunter, Superintendent of Schools, Oakland, California, indicated that principles of good school administration require the building principal to be the officer-in-chief of his school. The principal was to be rec . . .

Many parents have had no contact with deafness until they discover that their own baby does not hear. Grief and shock are natural reactions, often compounded by misconceptions they and their circle of acquaintances hold regarding dearness. More facili . . .

Education today is being held accountable for its many programs and activities it is using to educate its students. Community colleges' educational and vocational programs are constantly evaluated by using their graduates' successes as a measuring . . .

The pattern of attendance in American higher education is undergoing significant changes. Each year fewer students who graduate from high school in the spring enter college immediately in the fall and continue their enrollment on an uninterrupted . . .

The culture of the United States today puts a great amount of importance on sex. Contained in this society are people who buy, via sexualization, be it a new car or a type of deodorant, and at the same time "clear-cut information on typical contem . . .

This is an era of accountability, and science is an enigma to the general populace. Beginning with the first Sputnik in 1957, there was an almost overwhelming stress on science education. However, starting about 1968, the glow began to fade, and it . . .

This study was predicated upon the assumption that a better understanding of teacher and student attitudes toward elementary school subjects would assist educators in viewing more realistically the complexity of the educational experience in which . . .

American education must accept the professional task of recognizing and accepting culturally different students who enter our schools and promote an appreciation for these diverse cultures in this culturally diverse and complex society. Wayson (19 . . .

The identification and assessment of the self concept is a subject that has received considerable attention in theoretical writings and related research. Attention to this specific subject has not been limited to contemporary studies. Behavioral s . . .

The purpose of this study was to develop a home intervention program for preschool developmentally disabled children. The importance of early intervention, and procedures being followed to provide inter- vention and their effectiveness were inves . . .

With the growing emphasis being placed upon the creatively gifted student and the field of creativity in general, teachers are increasingly being asked to help their students realize their creative potential. Considerable research has been publish . . .

Recent events in the movement toward the upgrading or revision of high school graduation requirements in public schools in the United States have raised a number of questions concerning the status of high school graduation requirements in state reside . . .

In the following paper this writer will attempt to develop a rationale for teaching a comprehensive Deaf Studies Program. Our purpose will be to outline the historical implications that may have resulted because of failing to properly prepare deaf stu . . .

The acquisition of verbal strength starts long before the child begins his formal education, and the schools have little or no control over individuals or institutions who influence his language development. In the home, for example, a child learns . . .

The purpose of this study was to research and analyze the available literature, published since 1950, concerning three viewpoints of reading comprehension and three cognitive developmental theories. The findings of the research were organized and pres . . .

The theories of self-concept development proposed by social learning, psychoanalytic, cognitive-developmental. and ethnolinguistic writers are used as a foundation to examine self-concept development among black children. This thesis includes a survey . . .

Because innovative methods and materials alone, were inadequate to produce high quality experiences in education, the quality of communication between teacher and pupil was identified as a crucial and pertinent area for study. That humanistic, constru . . .

The purpose of this project is to present a model for the development of a comprehensive state plan for coordinated services for the hearing impaired in the state of New Hampshire in order to provide all hearing impaired persons in the state with the . . .

In the spring of 1972, Rincon Hall was serving approximately only one-half of its capacity for students. This is no earth shattering statement, considering that this is a problem which many dormitories across the country have encountered. The empty be . . .

The purpose of this graduate project is to create a comprehensive handbook that can also be posted as a website in a user friendly format for MFT graduate students in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at CSUN. This project is des . . .

The purpose of this project was to survey what has been done to desegregate school districts in California. This included an examination of guidelines, and a review of plans and procedures for implementing desegregation. The survey focused on four Cal . . .

The evaluation of Oakwood Continuation Junior High School during the school year 1975-1976 consists of delineating some, but not all, of the objectives considered to be of prime importance to the staff of this school and other staff employees of the s . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine how many residential schools for the deaf are currently screening their students for the Usher Syndrome and how many of these schools offer support services to the identified Usher Syndrome student and his fa . . .

The writer will attempt first of all to define supervision and to differentiate the roles that lend themselves to this awesome yet often quite specific definition. The duties of a supervisor are seldom limited to one definition because of the various . . .

This study was an investigation of attrition rates for hearing-impaired students attending California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Attrition rates for subsets of these students (males and females, first-time freshmen and transfer juniors) were . . .

Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, has as its basic purpose to assure that all handicapped children have available to them a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related servi . . .

The purpose of this study is to attempt to determine the relationship of current and future leadership qualities among deaf students. The study focused in on the examination of the extra- curricular activities of a sampling of high school deaf student . . .

This paper discusses the possible differences in personality characteristics between hearing-impaired students from residential and day programs. If there are differences, certain implications exist for educational and rehabilitative services. The Six . . .

The problem of choosing and enjoying meaningful work is one of the most difficult tasks facing young adults today. Studies were presented that show the increasing amount of job dissatisfaction, despite movements to "humanize" the workplace. The questi . . .

"The application of knowledge for socially useful ends often is preceded by the theoretical development of a science." Successful theoretical development in the sci- ences has led academic psychologists to search for the basic laws governing l . . .

The Comprehensive Services and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978, P.L. 95-602 recommends changes and additions in language in order to more appropriately serve the developmentally disabled. Significantly, new language speaks directly to ma . . .

We in this country currently live at a time and in a land that rings of a strange paradox. Tulare County, California, could be considered a prime example of this present day contradiction. On the one hand, it is a county that has been consistently am . . .

One of the most important and characteristic forms of human behavior is language; its importance in human affairs has been recognized since the beginning of history.When each of the social sciences developed, it encountered language problems within . . .

This is a comparative study of the roles of the secondary school principal in Thailand and in the United States. This investigator serves in Thailand as a school principal and manager. Sithammarat Suksa is the name of that school. It is one of the . . .

A study of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, Form Q, Level 4, was undertaken to analyze the following relationships: the relationship between the reading selections and the correct answers; and the relationship between the distractor statements . . .

The history of the education of the Hispanic hearing impaired is dismal. There has been little emphasis focused on the multifaceted needs of the population until recently. Still, there are few programs designed to specifically meet the specialized nee . . .

Recently, numerous books have been written and much research has been conducted in the area of student attitudes. Much of the material appears to indicate that, often times, students can be faced with alienating and dehumanizing experiences in the pub . . .

The writer became interested in the subject of differentiated staffing upon hearing a lecture in 1970 given by Bruce C. Newlin, then the new Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum for the Lancaster School District, Lancaster, California.(Dr. Newlin is . . .

In order to determine the predictors of academic success in foreign students, a study, based upon the premise that there are characteristics which differ between academically successful and unsuccessful students, was conducted at Los Angeles Pierce Co . . .