American Indian Enrollment in Classes for the Educable Mentally Retarded and Educationally Handicapped.

Autor/in	Miles, Marilyn
Institution	Humboldt County Schools, Eureka, CA.
Titel	American Indian Enrollment in Classes for the Educable Mentally Retarded and Educationally Handicapped.
Quelle	(1972), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	American Indians; Enrollment; Mental Retardation; Mild Mental Retardation; Moderate Mental Retardation; Programed Instruction; Programed Instructional Materials; School Surveys; Special Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? American Indian; Indianer; Einschulung; Geistige Behinderung; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen
Abstract	To determine the current status of American Indian enrollment in special classes, the 24 elementary schools, with from 13 to 741 pupils, serviced by the Northern Indian California Education Project (Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act) were surveyed during the 1971-72 school year. The survey covered the type of programs in existence, the number of children being serviced, the number of Indian pupils enrolled in such programs, and, if no programs existed, the number of children needing special services. All 24 target schools responded to a 3-page survey. In most cases, the survey was completed by the school principal with the assistance of the special education teachers (the breakdown by individual schools is contained in Appendix A). As a follow-up to this survey, the results of the survey and their implications were discussed at a 1-day meeting of school psychologists and psychometrists in the service area. Within the 24 target schools, 1,250 students of the total 8,025 student population were Indian, indicating that within the schools surveyed there was not a disproportionate enrollment of Indian pupils in Educable Mentally Retarded (EMR) and Educationally Handicapped (EH) classes. It is stated that this report undoubtedly contains some inaccuracy in the identification of students as being a member of one ethnic group or another; however, this report does represent a good sample of the total number of Indian pupils enrolled in programs for EMR (10) and EH (23) within the 24 target schools surveyed. (FF)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC