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Iverson, Ginny Salce; And Others – 1983
The fourth of six volumes on the Making Special Friends Project, an approach to promoting social interactions between severely handicapped students and nonhandicapped persons in the school and community, details procedures for implementation. The first section discusses a cornerstone of the project, the expanded Individualized Education Program…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction, Parent Participation
Epps, Susan – 1983
This manual, the second of a two-part study, addresses issues involved in behavioral interventions with low incidence, severely handicapped students. Initial chapters focus on selecting appropriate goals, writing behavioral objectives, and selecting observational systems to measure behavior change. General treatment procedures for increasing and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Program Development
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1982
Guidelines are provided for integrating the dependent handicapped student (DHS) into the regular school in Alberta, Canada. A short overview comprises the introduction. Identified are two types of integration: (1) incidental contact and (2) planned contact for social, recreational, and educational activities with other students. Noted are types of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Mainstreaming, Normalization (Handicapped), Program Implementation
Koegel, Lynn Kern; And Others – 1990
This manual, written in workbook form, presents a self-management program for individuals with severe disabilities. The program is designed to facilitate treatment gains in multiple settings and in the absence of a treatment provider. The steps in the program include: (1) getting ready (define behaviors, measure behaviors, choose a reward, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education

Eichinger, Joanne; Woltman, Sheila – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
This article reports the experiences of one school district as it moved from serving students with severe disabilities in segregated programs to a full inclusion model. Year one focused on getting started, planning, and beginning integration efforts and year two on implementation of a structured peer integration program. Applicability of the full…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming, Models, Multiple Disabilities
Arceneaux, Marcia C. – 1993
This paper describes the development and establishment of an inclusive education program on a junior high school campus. Although this is the documentation of secondary programming, with an emphasis on severe disabilities, these "phases" can be generalized to other program areas and levels of education. During phase I, a functional,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Educational Change, Junior High Schools
Piercy, David; Niems, Mike – 1983
This guide describes the development and implementation of a functional/vocational program for self contained severely and mildly handicapped students in grades K-12. The model emphasized instruction in skills needed by students to live as adults in the least restrictive way. Elementary children receive instruction in self contained classrooms and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Mild Disabilities, Prevocational Education

McDonnell, Andrea; And Others – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1991
The Utah Elementary Integration Model places students with severe disabilities in neighborhood schools that provide supported integration in age-appropriate grade-level homerooms, peer-referenced and community-referenced curriculum, a transdisciplinary team approach, and data-based training in natural settings. Twenty-seven participants achieved…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Ferguson, Dianne L.; Baumgart, Diane – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1991
This article reanalyzes the principle of partial participation in integrated educational programing for students with severe or profound disabilities. The article presents four "error patterns" in how the concept has been used, some reasons why such error patterns have occurred, and strategies for avoiding these errors. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns

Caro, Patricia; Derevensky, Jeffrey L. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
A family-focused intervention model was implemented with 16 families having young children (birth to 3 years) with moderate or severe disabilities. Individualized Family Service Plans were formulated and implemented, resulting in high levels of parental satisfaction, accelerated rates of progress by the children, and acquisition of functional…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Individualized Programs
Akridge, Robert L. – 1992
"Jobs Rally" is a community event that can be coordinated by a human service program or institution to help communities become more responsive to the independent living and career development needs of people with severe disabilities. This manual outlines how to conduct a jobs rally. The manual begins with a very brief four-step community…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Community Action, Community Development
Voeltz, Luanna; And Others – 1983
The manual describes the Special Friends Program, an approach to prepare handicapped and nonhandicapped children for social interactions with one another. The program emphasizes social, play, and leisure interchanges that facilitate social skill development by both severely handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Following a review of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Friendship, Interaction, Interpersonal Competence
Karasoff, Patricia; And Others – 1992
This review of effective practices in state-wide systems change was conducted as part of the PEERS (Providing Education for Everyone in Regular Schools) Project, a 5-year collaborative systems change project in California to facilitate the integration of students with severe disabilities previously at special centers into services at regular…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Rhodes, Larry; Drum, Charles – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1989
A survey of 10 states indicated the presence of hiring procedures that discourage or limit public-sector supported employment for persons having severe disabilities. Survey results, and recommendations for state system change to promote supported employment, are presented in 4 areas: civil service examination requirements, job classification…
Descriptors: Adults, Eligibility, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. Div. of Special Services. – 1988
The Employment Training and Transition Model is presented as a comprehensive classroom model whose goal is to prepare students with severe handicaps to work, live, and recreate in their home communities while in high school and after graduation. The model is built on the assumption that high school programs should be integrated, age-appropriate,…
Descriptors: Adults, Daily Living Skills, Education Work Relationship, High Schools
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