European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes february care of school phobic to Eslingen blazes Trail in innovative Dodds program Story and photos by Elijah Cosier staff writer Germany adaptive behaviour modification is new to the education and for department of defense dependent schools Dodds its a two Montgold infant at the elementary school the program Here was the first undertaken in the american school system in eur said Earl principal at the to Clingen elementary Only two schools in Europe currently conduct the special the Nuernberg elementary school 2 is the and the High school there is set to begin a program when a teacher is Accord ing to a Dodds spokesman in children who enter the program Are not mentally deficient or physically Handi Lamb he said the classes Are not at All related to special education programs geared to retarded in Lamb All of the students in the class Here have average and above inability to fit they arc referred to the class because of an inability to fit into a Normal classroom Lamb he Calls it class room phobia or school which he defines As an Al encompassing term for children who have a fear of being placed with a Large group of the children who Are school phobic have real and serious Lamb the degree of phobia varies from child to child and there arc children who Are school phobic who can remain in regu Lar he Michele Ryder teaches the four Stu dents in the adaptive behaviour class at she gave an indication of the Type of problem children referred to her class might experience by citing typical reactions of two of her pupils when faced with minor difficulties she is Overly he might react to getting a wrong answer to a math problem by picking up something and dropping or punching something or the other has the opposite Hes Overly he would react to the same wrong answer by just not doing any More ryders examples indicate the difficulty she faces in giving each of the children individual and Basing that Atten Tion on her knowledge of each Childs prob lems and because each Childs behaviour is differ Lamb and Ryder feel that the Maxi mum number of students one teacher could effectively handle is More than that would require the help of a full time they ryders class is expecting a fifth student within the next the class Here receives students referred from elementary schools at Robinson bar Patch ludwigs Burg and the class accepts children in grades 3 through which in the Stuttgart Community schools includes almost Stu the possibility that the number of students referred to the program could exceed class capacity is not parents have deciding vote the process through which a child is referred to adaptive behaviour is far from As described by it leaves Little room for the possibility that a child who Doest need the class being hastily referred to in parents have the deciding each of the schools has a child study Lamb the child is initially referred to that committee where a counsellor and a with the help of a psychologist and Reading write an individual education program Iep for the the Childs records Are then sent to bomb Lingen elementary school and a Consulta Tion with the parents is the school invites the parents and specialists from Dodds South Headquarters to join them in writing another Iep based on their collective the Parent then indicates with his Sig nature whether he accepts the the parents involvement Doest Stop continuous dialogue be tween parents and school keeps both cur rent on changes in the Childs behaviour at Home and in a minimum of one conference per grading period is and any changes to the Iep must be approved by the Lamb said the children in the program share an inability to fit in with groups of and As a they Are some times tagged by other he re emphasized that the tags dont fit and that some of the children Are ahead of their Peers the first thrust of the class is to remove the stigma of the tag and improve the Childs the children know that there not crazy or at the same they know they dont fit in with the rest of the Lamb these children understand that they have a they May not be Able to verbalize that but they do under stand that they do have a he feel no stigma because they Are aware of their prob Lamb they attach no stigma to being in a special in Lamb said the opposite is they feel so comfortable in this he that they achieve in a greater degree than in Normal its like a patient who goes to a he knows he has a but he has Confidence in so when he receives his its like a psychological boost to it was Luck for the to Eslingen school that Ryder was already in the area when the program was Lamb said he is impressed with her qualifications and her she said she is filling a role Shes wanted to play since High where she developed an interest in speech therapy and special referring to the Progress Shes made in her she its taken a Long time to get this and till take awhile to go she indicated she wants to be there for the rest of the the to Eslingen program is too Young for Lamb or Ryder to predict its tractor Ryder observes the efforts of a Pupil As he climbs a Rig designed to improve a persons balance and instructor Michele Ryder gives Pupil his individual assignment for next or give a percentage rate for students working themselves out of adaptive behaviour and Back into regular Lamb says the entire adaptive behaviour Field is so Young that the Range of its implications Are still he has High expectations for the refugee wants official charged with murder Berlin up an East German who last year fled to the West has charged East German defense minister Heinz Hoffmann with murder for his to Border troops to shoot a human rights group Falko Vogt scaled the Berlin Wall last but his Marienetti was felled by communist guard bullets and later died of her wounds in an East German the West Berlin human rights group in a formal note to West German Justice Vogt charged Hoffmann with saying the defense minister was responsible for his girlfriends death be cause he had issued the orders to open fire on a human rights group spokesman said Vogt had no Hope a Legal Case could be but had filed his charges to dramatize his protest against East Germany Bor Der two thirds of parliament Are College graduates London a two out of three of the 635 members of the House of com the elected chamber of the British Are College Accord ing to a new parliament and information by Der Mot Deputy librarian at com also discloses that 240 maps went to Oxford or Cambridge traditional Breeding ground for the British Stab