These four issues discuss issues in the education of children with disabilities. The Spring 1992 issues focuses on developing transition systems. Articles include: "Vocational Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Transition: Service Delivery and Professional Issues" (Edna M. Szymanski et al.); "Personnel Preparation To…

This article describes programing modifications and transition techniques for educators planning for the reentry of a child with a head injury. Discussion addresses: gathering information about the child; preparing school staff; preparing the student for the return; providing homebound instruction; modifying schedules to alleviate physical…

This manual is intended to provide teachers of young children with disabilities with guidance in facilitating the independence of young children with and without disabilities and in making the transition from preschool to public school. The manual has three sections. The first describes the components of the teaching process and presents…

This guide is an introduction to head injury and to educational resources in the field. An introductory section describes traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a federally recognized disability category and provides its federal and Idaho definitions. The following section introduces the unique characteristics of students with brain injuries. A section…

This booklet introduces Project Prepare, a competency-based model for inservice or preservice personnel preparation in early childhood special education. Each of the nine Project Prepare modules focuses upon a cluster of competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes/values) needed by personnel working with young children who have disabilities.…

These two theme issues of "Impact" discuss inclusive education for children with disabilities at the preschool to first grade level and at the kindergarten to grade 12 level respectively. The articles present different ways that families and professionals include children with and without disabilities in educational and child care settings, with…

This manual is designed to be a practical guide for designing, implementing, and evaluating instruction and services for students with disabilities. The first section, "Leadership and Collaboration," offers a conceptual framework for program leadership, a program vision and descriptions, strategies for interagency collaboration, and…

This document consists of five consecutive volumes (19 issues) of the newsletter of the New York State Federation of Chapters of Council for Exceptional Children, covering the 5-year period 1987-1991. Selected major articles from the last three years are are follows (only first author noted); (1) "Whole Language and Special Education"…