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The paper examines issues involved in providing instruction to severely handicapped individuals in their natural environments. Factors that influence the arrangements made for instruction in community environments are classified according to student factors (such as chronological age, post-school projections, and unique learning and performance characteristics); activity factors (complexity level and the extent to which features of the environment can be replicated); and logistical factors (staff-to-student ratios, transportation, and cost). A model is presented to provide a systematic strategy for determining natural cues and teaching procedures. Five steps in the model are identified: (1) selecting the skills to teach, (2) deciding whether a natural consequence should serve as the sole corrective procedure, (3) selecting relevant natural cues, (4) determining the types of teaching procedures to use in community environments, and (5) determining the data collection procedures that will result in meaningful programmatic change. (CL)

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