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Homebound instruction

Here are entered works on education for children confined to their homes by illness, physical injury, or emotional condition, provided by an itinerant or visiting teacher. Works on the education of school-age children in the home setting rather than in a traditional private or public school are entered under Home schooling.

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• Special education

• Domestic education
• Home instruction
• Homebound education

• The Parents' Manual: or, Home and School Training, by Hiram Orcutt (page images at MOA)
• Parent and child, a treatise on the moral and religious education of children (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1910), by Oliver Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline. (James R. Buffum, 1826), by Mrs. Hoare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocational education program in cooperation with the emergency relief. ([Washington, 1934), by United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parents and children; a sequel to "Home education," (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1897), by Charlotte M. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parents and children (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1904), by Charlotte M. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints on child-training (J. D. Wattles, 1893), by H. Clay Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aids to mental development (Key & Biddle, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of child-nature from the kindergarten standpoint (Chicago Kindergarten College, 1895), by Elizabeth Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The junior instructor for the parent and child ... providing for home instruction in harmony with school methods, and having the purpose of bringing the home and school into closer relations with each other: containing suggestions and methods prepared especially for it by noted writers and specialists in their various departments ... (F.A. Owen Publishing Company, 1921), by Walter Julius Beecher and Grace B. Faxon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and law in child training : a book for mothers (M. Bradley Company, 1910), by Emilie Poulsson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father's book (G. and C. Merriam ..., 1835), by Theodore Dwight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home education : a course of lectures to ladies, delivered in Bradford, in the winter of 1885-1886 (K. Paul, Trench, 1886), by Charlotte M. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming generation (D. Appleton, 1913), by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Education of Exceptional Children: A Consideration of Public School Problems and Policies in the Field of Differentiated Education (New York and London: The Century Co., 1924), by John Louis Horn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Differences in the cognitive functioning of normal, mentally retarded & emotionally disturbed subjects : implications for school relevant differential diagnosis (University of Michigan, 1967), by Philip L. Safford (page images at HathiTrust)
• School organization and the individual child: a book for school executives and teachers, being an exposition of plans that have been evolved to adapt school organization to the needs of individual children, normal, supernormal and subnormal. (The Davis Press, 1912), by William Henry Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The intelligence of school children, how children differ in ability, the use of mental tests in school grading and the proper education of exceptional children (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Lewis M. Terman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art for the academically talented student in the secondary school. (National Education Association Project on the Academically Talented Student, 1961), by Washington Conference on Art for the Academically Talented and Edwin Ziegfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The exceptional child. (Center for Applied Research in Education, 1963), by Walter B. Barbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The education of exceptional children : its challenge to teachers, parents, and laymen / Arch O. Heck. - (McGraw-Hill, 1953), by Arch Oliver Heck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special talents and defects : their significance for education / by Leta S. Hollingworth. (Macmillan, 1923), by Leta Stetter Hollingworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special education for the exceptional. (P. Sargent, 1955), by Merle E. Frampton and Elena D. Gall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Administrative and instructional provisions for rapid and slow learners in Catholic secondary schools. (Catholic University of America Press, 1956), by Thomas Joseph Frain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Boston way; plans for the development of the individual child (The Rumford press, 1921), by Boston (Mass.). Special class teachers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What can the teacher do for the deficient child? A manual for teachers in rural and graded schools (State board of education, 1918), by Arnold Gesell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diagnosis and remediation of psycholinguist's disabilities (Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, University of Illinois, 1966), by Samuel A. Kirk and University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Institute for Research on Exceptional Children (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gifted classroom (Illinois Gifted Program Evaluation, 1971), by Illinois Gifted Program Evaluation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abnormal children : nervous, mischievous, precocious, and backward : (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner ;, 1916), by Bernard Hollander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regents' program for meeting needs in science, technology and education of the talented. (Albany, 1958), by University of the State of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children with special needs. ([Baltimore], 1958), by Maryland. Superintendents Committee on Curriculum and Supervision and Maryland. State Dept. of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• An experimental program in education for academically talented pupils in elementary school (School District of Kansas City, Missouri, 1961), by Marjory J. Farrell and Clyde J. Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A demonstration: assistants for teachers of exceptional children (Syracuse University Press, 1957), by William M. Cruickshank and Norris G. Haring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The individualized education program : key to an appropriate education for the handicapped child; Annual Report (U.S. Dept. of HEW, Office of Education, 1977), by United States. National Advisory Committee on the Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston way (The Rumford press, 1921), by Boston. Special class teachers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The exceptional child (C. Scribner's sons, 1917), by Maximilian Paul Eugen Groszmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston way (The Rumford press, 1917), by Boston. Special class teachers (page images at HathiTrust)
• School organization and the individual child; a book for school executives and teachers, being an exposition of plans that have been evolved to adapt school organization to the needs of individual children, normal, supernormal and subnormal. (The Davis press, 1912), by William Henry Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to conduct a self-survey of special education needs (International Council for Exceptional Children, 1958), by T. Ernest Newland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mid-year statement of the National Association for the Study and Education of Exceptional Children (The Association, in the 20th century), by National Association for the Study and Education of Exceptional Children (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace Corps in special education and rehabilitation (Peace Corps, Information Collection and Exchange, 1984), by Gregory L. Dixon, Katherine Davis, Partners of the Americas (Organization), and Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and Exchange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Professional preparation for teachers of exceptional children: an overview (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1960), by Romaine P. Mackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Placing handicapped students in the least restrictive environment : an adapted model for decision makers / [Cindy Terry, editor] (Illinois State Board of Education, Dept. of Specialized Educational Services, 1980), by Illinois. Dept. of Specialized Educational Services and Cindy Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• LD or not? (Illinois State Board of Education, 1984) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delaware's program for the education of exceptional children. ([Dover?, 1957), by Delaware. Department of Public Instruction and Delaware (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gifted child; identification, program planning, instructional materials, guidance, evaluation. (Center for School Experimentation, Ohio State University, 1960), by Ohio State University. Center for School Experimentation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rules of special education (The Department, 1977), by Iowa. Department of Public Instruction and Iowa. Special Education Division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Postschool adjustment of slow learning children : a study of persons previously enrolled in special classes in Ohio schools (Bureau of Special and Adult Education, Ohio State University, 1955), by Viola M. Cassidy, Harold Robert Phelps, and Ohio State University. Bureau of Special and Adult Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers on the early identification of exceptional children (State of Illinois, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1971), by Gloria Calovini and Illinois. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide-- directing the education for exceptional children in a local school district (Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction], 1956), by Illinois. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and Illinois Association of School Administrators (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Physically handicapped children's education act of 1950: hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, second session, on S. 3102, a bill to enable the States to make more adequate provision for special services required for the education of physically handicapped children of school age, and for other purposes, May 16, 17 and 18, 1950. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Education of Physically Handicapped Children (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special education programs for American Indian exceptional children and youth : a policy analysis guide. (Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Education Division, Office of Education], 1979), by Council for Exceptional Children and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of Illinois report on Title 1, Public law 89-10 ([Division of Supervision and Instruction, Department for Exceptional Children, Educationally Disadvantaged Children Section], 1974), by Illinois. Educationally Disadvantaged Children Section. Program Review and Documentation Unit and Connie Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special health care in the school (Council for Exceptional Children, 1991), by Terry Heintz Caldwell, ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, and Council for Exceptional Children (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternatives in program development for exceptional children. (Illinois Office of Education, Educational Media and Information Service, 1976), by Illinois Office of Education. Educational Media and Information Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Compendium of interagency agreements : vocational education, special education, and vocational rehabilitation (Leadership Training Institute/Vocational and Special Education, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981), by L. Allen Phelps, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Leadership Training Institute/Vocational and Special Education, and United States. Office of Special Education. Division of Personnel Preparation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illinois Instructional Materials Center : final technical report (U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Education, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, 1974), by Illinois. Instructional Materials Center and Gloria Calovini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teachers' problems with exceptional children (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1933), by United States Office of Education, Elise H. Martens, and Beatrice McLeod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special education for exceptional children, curriculum guide ([Dallas], 1953), by Dallas Independent School District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special education of atypical children in Maryland; report of the committee appointed by the Maryland State Board of Education. ([Baltimore], 1956), by Maryland. Committee to Study the Educational Needs of Atypical Children (page images at HathiTrust)
• Here's the job for your future : [a career in special education of exceptional children] : a career booklet. ([Springfield], 1949), by Illinois. Division of Education of Exceptional Children (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Society's committee on the education of gifted children (Public School Pub. Co., 1924), by National Society for the Study of Education. Committee on the Education of Gifted Children and Guy Montrose Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illinois plan for special education of exceptional children; children with social and emotional problems, school social work ([Springfield, 1960), by John C. Nebo, Ray Graham, and Jane Wille (page images at HathiTrust)
• The challenge of the retarded child. (Bruce, 1959), by Sister Mary Theodore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language differences or learning disabilities? : identifying and meeting the needs of students from non-English-language backgrounds (ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, 1993), by Sandra H. Fradd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directory of California administrators of special education programs (Sacramento : California State Department of Education, in the 20th century), by California Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special education for exceptional children; curriculum guide for physically handicapped. (Dallas Independent School District, 1963), by Dallas Independent School District (Tex.) (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.