Annotation Should handicapped children attend ordinary schools? The Warnock report' has raised many issues relevant to child health. Among these are the arguments for and against the integration of handicapped children into ordinary schools. This aspect has been given topical prominence by the affirmation of the Secretary for Education of his support for the implementation of section 10 of the ...

The sociological study of institutions has developed considerably in the past two decades. It has moved from the case studies of mental hospitals (e.g. Stanton & Schwartz, 1954; Belknap, 1956) and the graphic, speculative typology of Goffman (1961) to empirically based comparative studies of facilities for both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped (Hewett et al. 1975; Wing & Brown, 197...

The Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped leads a co-operative network of specialized libraries and ancillary agencies that are delivering a successful programme of reading and informational services to blind, visually impaired and handicapped users. Its unique position within the Library of Congress and the benefits which emanate from this relati...

Of the many types of classes provided for the handicapped children in the Philadelphia Public School System the present survey covers the orthopedic, sight-saving, deaf, and nutrition-tuberculous. This work is under the supervision of Dr. Gladys G. Ide, Director of Special Education. The aim of this investigation is to show to what extent the physical handicap interferes with ability to earn a ...

lmage Recording Is a cooperative project Involving the local museum, the County Authority for Work, and the Swedlsh Folk High School, among other interest groups. (The Swedlsh Fdk High Schod is a democratic school for adult education that dates from the late nineteenth century.) To make the project worthwhile, we needed to find the place where all these different interest groups, and others, in...