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Coordinating Director of tht
project.
Over a period of five years
Mrs. Tannhauser, in cooperation
with her teaching, clinical and ad
ministrative staff of Special Ed
ucation, has explored and tested
out in classroom situations wide
variety of teaching techniques
methods and approaches to the
problems of children with specia.
learning difficulties and schoo.
adjustment problems.
AS result of this experience
it was recognized that there was
great need for public school sys
TENS to initiate, within their own
framework, Internationally orient
ed research projects.
The Syracuse -Montgomery
County cooperative research prof.
ect is considered by the country's
educators tangible evidence of the
Importance Of irnplementing this
philosophy.
The purpose of the present re-
search will be to investigate with
in the public school framework
the reliability, effectiveness and
generalized applicability of a spe-
cialized teaching methodology
previously confined to laboratory
and clinical settings.
Classrooms, under the expert
mental set-up will be "non-stimu-
lating," free of distractions and
completely uniform as to color.
In addition to traditional methoN
and techniques, the teachers wi
be provided with specially de-
signed teaching equipment.
1t is hoped that as result of
this project it will become posi-
BILE to adapt a number of tech
niques and basic teaching pr,inci-
pies previously used with individ-
uals and small groups Of children
to the public school clasgrooms
and the learning problems of
children currently enrolled in spe-
cial education classes.
In order for the research staff
to evaluate the usefulness of the
specialized teaching methods,
each child viii receive a complete
diagnostic work-up thus enabling
clinical conSultants to know as
much as possible about the causes
of learning problems and school
adjustment difficulties.
At present, research associates
have been appointed in the fields
of neurology, pediatrics, psychia-
try, speech and hearing, social
work and psychology.
Participants on a parttime con-
sultant basis are DR.. Bushnell
Smith, Georgetown Hospital, De-
partment of Neurology; DR..
Christine Kehne, Director of Psy-
chiatric Youth Services, Mont
gomery Health Department, and
DR.. Miriam Pauls, Speech and
Hearing Clinic, Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
DR.. Harold Mitchell, Director
of School Health Services in the
county, is acting as liaison mem
Der to the research staff. DR.. VIII
liam People s, Montgomery's
Health Officer. is supervising the
use of Health Department Clinic
space and facilities.
Montgomery's Director of Ed.
vocational Services, Maxwell Bur
dette, is acting as liaison between
the Board of Education and SYRIA
cuse University so far as admin
istrative responsibilities are con-
cerned that are inherent in inte-
grating a research project into
the public school system.
DIR. Cruickshank has enlisted
the professional assistance of DR..
Harry Bice, nationally known ex-
pert on the problems of children
with cerebral palsy, as consult
ant to the research psychologist
and other staff members.
Frederick Katzebrug, previous
ly professor Of psychology at New
York State Teachers College, will
be a full-time resident psycholo-
gist for the duration of the prof.
ect.