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The Micro-TOWER System of Vocational Evaluation includes work samples for assessing vocational skills, presentations of occupational information, behavioral observations, and group discussions focusing on vocational goals and related concerns. It has been field tested on over 1,200 persons at eighteen sites, including rehabilitation facilities, psychiatric hospitals, correctional facilities, and a school for the mentally retarded. Thirteen work sample tests are designed to measure five skill areas: Verbal (Want Ads Comprehension, Message Taking), Numerical (Payroll) Computation, Making Change), Motor (Bottle Capping, Packing, Electronic Connector Assembly, Lamp Assembly), Spatial (Blueprint Reading, Graphics Illustration), and Clerical Perception (Mail Sorting, Filing, Zip Coding, Record Checking). This report presents data comparing the performance of a variety of special disability groups to the performance of the general rehabilitation group, which includes all of the individuals who participated in the field testing. Performance data are summarized for groups of the physically disabled, emotionally disturbed, educable mentally retarded, brain-injured, adult offenders, ex-alcoholics, Spanish-speaking, visually handicapped, and deaf. (Author/BW)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert