Resource Programing for Emotionally Disturbed Teenagers

Abstract

In order to help severely disturbed teenagers to more successfully make the transition from day care to public school experiences, personnel from the Technoma Workshop and the Pittsburgh Public Schools combined efforts in 1965 to develop a supportive and preventive educational plan, resource programing. This plan, utilizing a Technoma Workshop teacher within the facilities of a local high school, was designed to provide a flexible means of modifying a student's learning difficulties, protecting him from crises as he gradually assumes increasing responsibility for his education, and also providing support for the school staff in their efforts to educate this student. Programing purposes and techniques are discussed and illustrated.