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Show Educational Material At Resource Center Aids the Handicapped i tt By Gordon t rf Hannan to meet specific learning disabilities , she said. One of our most popular items Is kit for teaching social skills to mentally retarded children," she said. The kit, developed at Yeshi-vUniversity in New York, teaches the basics of such specific skills as eating, dressing, recognizing that persons may be tall and short and that violation of cetain rules set up by society may have unwanted consequences. Tribune Staff Writer A wealth of MURRAY educational material for handicapped persons is circulated by the Utah Learning Resource Center. And according to center specialist Joanne Gilles, providing technical assistance and workshops for instructors of handicapped students is the centers main priority. ' The center, 4984 S. 300 West, administered under the Special Education Section of the Utah State Board of Education, consists of more than $2 million in f r a Low-leve- books edu- handicapped-oriente- d cational material. Mrs. Gilles said the material, as well as training, is available to all 40 of Utahs school districts and other state and private educational institutions. Mrs. Gilles said the only other center of the type comparable to the Utah center is one in Texas. Most states have made some kind of effort to set up programs for the handicapped like this, but the scope isnt as large. She said the majority of the material at the center is given by publishing for testing and evaluation purposes. The publishers then send representatives to check into the effectiveness of the material and report on whether it should be released for nation-wid- e circulation, modified, or even discontinued. Teachers of handicapped rom-pani- children throughout the state, plus parents, may obtain the centers materials, she said. Books, films, cassette recordings, filmstrips and other educational media are available. These items may be checked out i',1' for up to two weeks and will automatically be renewed for another two weeks, she said. Theres been much change in the way the hand- icapped are educated in the few years, Mrs. Gilles, said. New federal legislation in the area of handicapped education is making things much better. The center was started in 1969 and, according to Mrs. Gilles, operates mainly on the philosophy of Dr. R. Elwood Pace, director of the Special Education Section of the state Board of Education. Dr. Pace believes in these kids and wants better she education for them, said. He wants what we do here at the Learning Resource Center to make a difference in their lives . Periodicals, professional journals and training manuals are also part of the centers collection, as are toys and games. Most of the material is directed specifically toward handicapped persons and may be adapted past high-intere- l, st are also in great demand, Mrs. Gilles said. Say a sixth- - grade boy has a second-grad- e reading ability. He doesnt want to read second-grad- e books. They have pink bunnies in them. What he does want toread is something to which be can relate. But it still has to be written for second-grad- e reading ability. She said there are also books for adults that have low-levreading ability. Many are true stories. Newspaper articles and photos are also compiled in book form for easy reading. The main idea, she said, is to give an adult something easy to read without insulting the reader because of simple content. The centers workshops for teachers inc iude instruction on short-terobjectives for handicapped students, modification of current material, correlation of instructional activities and educational material, matching m the characteristics of a specific handicapped condition with the characteristics of a specific media material and provide training on ways to use the available material to motivate, challenge and adjust behavior of handicapped persons. School Districts Hold Play Field Control Stripping Your Own Furniture 1378 Let Us 16, Do Any ANTIQUES Bought DAVID'S WHERE ITS CUT "THE THAT COUNTS" Salt The II '4 you have the March blahs, put a little fun in your life with a hair cut from DAVIDS "The man with the golden hand s ret Stripped From pairing THE STRIPPING WORKSHOP Open 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Sot. 9 to Noon 2759 So. 300 West Thf cut is the secret. It is not always on especially complicated style by h hii h a coiffure excels. 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