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A comparative study of the effect of intensive social training for mentally retarded adolescents
Get PDFAs children learn or develop social responses and social controls, it becomes necessary to train or channel these responses so that they are acceptable to the family and society at large. Mentally retarded children, unable to master the contents of a regular school curricula, need a special developmental program designed to meet their needs. Davies maintains that while it is impossible to increase the intellectual powers of the mentally retarded, it is possible to increase their social efficiency. Thus, the writer decided upon an attempt to formulate a social skills program which would improve the social competence of mentally retarded adolescents. It was hoped that through intensive training in social skills the social adjustment of these children would be facilitated. The present study is an attempt to determine the value of an intensive social skills program pertinent to the improvement of social development. It is hoped that through the medium of this study the answers to the following questions might be found: 1. Will an intensive program in social skills accelerate social development in mentally retarded adolescents? 2. Will a period of such training accelerate social development beyond that which is normally expected of children with social retardation? 3. Will this acceleration remain permanent in accordance with the child\u27s chronological age? Further longitudinal studies on accelerating social development would be of great value to educators and those whose duty it is to devise special educational curricula
The development of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. School for Exceptional Children, Palos Park, Illinois
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to describe the historical background and to evaluate the factors influencing the foundation, growth, and development of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. School for Exceptional Children, Palos Park, Illinois. To continue the account of the work of the Community of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi and its influence in the Catholic education and training of mentally retarded children is one of the prime objectives of this study. In order to report the growth that has taken place and because of recent developments in the areas of education, research, social services, and vocational rehabilitation of the mentally retarded, an evaluation of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. School is propitious. Therefore, the aims of this study are: 1. To describe the establishment of the second school for retarded children by the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi under the title of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. School for Exceptional Children at Palos Park, Illinois. 2. To show the development of the educational, social adjustment, and training programs as carried out at the school. 3. To discuss the role of the Administrators and staff members and their qualifications. 4. To indicate the policies and procedures of admission and release. 5. To describe the development of the physical plant. Consequently the purpose of this dissertation is to view comprehensively the present status and to emphasize the development and growth of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. School from its establishment as St. Coletta-of-the-Rockies to the present time, including the years from 1941 to 1964, thus continuing the account of the work of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi in the field of special education
Roermond Diocesan Directives for initiation to penance -- Part II.
Get PDFThe purpose of the present study is to clarify, in obedience to the mandate to promote liturgical education, some of the problems which an effective penance catechesis for children according to their age and condition involves
Roermond Diocesan Directives for initiation to penance - Part 1
Get PDFThe purpose of the present study is to clarify, in obedience to the mandate to promote liturgical education, some of the problems which an effective penance catechesis for children according to their age and condition involves
A study of the schools for mentally handicapped children conducted by the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
Get PDFThe major purpose of this study was to survey a group of schools for mentally handicapped children conducted by one religious congregation in five countries of Western Europe in order to ascertain and interpret specific characteristics and general procedures as well as basic educational principles which affect special education. The writer had a dual intent: (1) to place these schools within their own national setting and so to evaluate them; (2) to bring them into a focus with schools tor mentally handicapped children in the United States, and to point out aspects which seemed common to both systems and those which seemed unique or individual. The specific objectives or the study encompassed the following considerations: (1) the place of the retarded or handicapped child in the apostolic activity of the congregation, (2) the functioning ability and special needs of retarded children and the manner in which both are being served by the included schools, (3) the programs and the physical facilities, (4) the philosophy and the qualifications of the teachers and of the aides, (5) information concerning the national structure of the special school system, (6) the sources of financial income, and (7) after-school planning. Another objective was added during the study: (8) the variation in emphasis or attitude toward the child in special education as differentiated from that noticed here in America. Comparison was regarded as an end in itself and not as a tool toward an evaluation. In accordance with present attitudes toward comparative education, evaluation on the whole was avoided because reliable universal yardsticks are lacking
A comparative study of vocabulary concepts between mentally retarded and normal children
Get PDFThe retarded child does deviate from the normal child. This comparative study is to be conducted to investigate vocabulary concepts among normal and retarded children and to show to what degree such deviations exist in the children examined. By using the development of vocabulary of normal children as a basis of the study, the differences between the normal children and the retarded children will be ascertained as far as possible, and a scale of educational differences noted. By means of this comparison, an evaluation of the mental abilities of the retarded child will be shown in accordance with his degree of deviation from the performance of the normal child. A study of screening procedure for special educational services to mentally retarded children: 1. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships between the S-B Form LM and the PPVT, which is an easily administered procedure in screening. A second purpose is to determine the child\u27s proper educational placement. Our Lady of Confidence Day School, like so many schools tor the retarded, is in need of an immediate and brief screening procedure to evaluate the more upset and uncooperative children before entrance into school. This screening device would be helpful in determining the degree of deviation of any child who would be recommended for evaluation. Any child who screens below or at the 70 I.Q., would be tested on the S-B Form L, M, or LM. 2. This study should produce suggestions to help identify children in need of special educational placement and to make reasonably sure that only eligible children are placed in classes tor the retarded. 3. Those who seem to rate as retarded can be reconsidered for further extensive study, including individual verbal and performance psychometric tests, referral to social workers, case studies, and complete medical check-ups. The following null hypotheses will be tested: 1. The correlation between PPVT and the S-B intelligence quotients is not significantly different from zero. 2. There is no significant difference between the mean I.Q.\u27s of the two tests
Study of the administration of the Henrician Act of Supremacy in Canterbury Diocese
Get PDFTo give full and conclusive answers to these questions, we should not only have to have access to all contemprary documents, private and public, and especially to civil and ecclesiastical court records which are in any way relevant to the matter at hand, but we should also be able by some seer\u27s art to enter the innermost minds and hearts of the participants in the far-reaching drama of the early sixteenth century. In default of this, we can only examine the evidence contained in existing contemporary sources of one diocese, and from these fragments endeavor to reconstruct enough of that original picture to shed some light on what was actually taking place in England during the initial years of the reformation, and on the extent to which royal supremacy was acknowledged and supported there during the reign of Henry VIII