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Show Conference Held In Denver For Educators Education for exceptional children chil-dren was the subject of the recent re-cent educational conference held at Denver, Colorado. The three-day three-day convention was sponsored by the Council for Exceptional Children, an organization whose main function is to improve educational edu-cational opportunities for children, child-ren, who, because of some deviation de-viation from the normal, require special opportunities. They include in-clude the emotionally disturbed, socially maladjusted, non-reader, mentally gifted, mentally retarded, retard-ed, and physically handicapped. Educators from the United States and Canada visited schoolrooms school-rooms in the Colorado city to observe ob-serve practices there. The subject sub-ject of the gifted child received prominnce. New emphasis is being placed on special education throughout the United States and Canada. Alpine Sohool District is one of ithe areas in the State of Utah that is forging ahead. The need of providing eduoationaJ. opportunities oppor-tunities for every child to succeed suc-ceed is being recognized. Representing Alpine School District at the convention were Dan Peterson, Central office; Dean Worlton, representing high school principals; Donna O. Ash, representing- elementary school principals, and ElDene Taylor, and Christine Yorgensen, Special Spec-ial Education teachers. |