Andy Rumsey sat in a wheelchair and watched his fellow fourth-graders play dodge ball in the gym at Tohickon Valley School. Because the 11-year-old is severely and profoundly handicapped, he couldn’t ...

The fourth-graders in Christine Chalone’s class have a new way to educate themselves. They tutor profoundly mentally handicapped children and they say it’s quite a learning process. The students’ ...

Severely and profoundly handicapped people, who traditionally have been institutionalized, can be integrated successfully into public schools, according to a Philadelphia School District administrator ...

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 26, 1974: Lawrence School District 497 was to begin identifying what it termed “profoundly handicapped” children and hoped to begin programs for them ...