Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1969: Hearings ... 90th Congress, 2d Session, Parts 1-2

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Page 270 - This work was supported by research grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health...
Page 326 - Specific learning disability" means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.
Page 327 - Kirk's retirement from the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children at the University of Illinois.
Page 55 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 326 - These may be manifested in disorders of listening, thinking, talking, reading, writing, spelling, or arithmetic. They include conditions which have been referred to as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, developmental aphasia, etc. They do not include learning problems which are due primarily to visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, to mental retardation, emotional disturbance, or to environmental disadvantage" (National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children,...
Page 406 - Secretary shall review the procedures utilized by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other Federal departments or agencies engaged in research and development and shall also actively solicit recommendations from research organizations and members of the general public.
Page 270 - Health and a member of the Committee on the Interplay of Engineering with Biology and Medicine of the National Academy of Engineering.
Page 51 - This program, which is designed to provide support for demonstrations of improved methods of care, treatment, and rehabilitation of the mentally ill and mentally retarded in public institutions, has been of substantial assistance to our hospitals.
Page 314 - I would like a draft copy of our first report to accompany this statement. This report proposes a plan of action to correct any inferiorities that may exist in racially imbalanced schools. The Society for Excellence in Education firmly rejects the Commission's suggestion that "changes in the social class or racial composition of schools would have a greater effect upon student achievement and attitudes than changes in school quality.
Page 302 - ... significant this year because of the proposed budget for fiscal 1963 which has been submitted by the administration. I would like to make it very clear to this committee that the American Association of Dental Schools is vigorously opposed to the proposed 1963 budgets for support of the extramural programs of the National Institute of Dental Research and the Division of Dental Public Health and Resources. These budgets would permit only token increases for the support of research grants and dental...

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