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Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Special Education. – 1977
Two advertisements and two brochures for the California Search and Serve program are presented in this excerpt from the California Search and Serve "Search Guidelines and Resource Manual." The materials are designed to promote community involvement in the identification of handicapped persons, from birth through age 21, so that they may…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Involvement, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Div. of Special Education. – 1977
This talk has been prepared as a model for presenters when seeking the support and involvement of organizations and volunteers for the California Search and Serve program. The paper has been designed to permit easy additions and changes for localization and for meeting the specific requirements of the audience. In its present form, the talk is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Involvement, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedOstertag, Bruce A.; And Others – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1986
Surveys of the 106 California community colleges resulted in a summary of services for learning disabled students including student evaluation and instruction, core services, and program evaluation. Findings indicated the most critical barrier to equitable services is the variability of identification criteria among campuses. (DB)
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems, Educational Needs
McCraven, Carol J. – 1976
Intended for parents, the manual presents information on existing legislation pertaining to handicapped children in California, and guidelines for effective child advocacy in order to identify and obtain adequate services. Chapters cover the following topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): diagnostic and evaluative procedures (including a…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Exceptional Child Services, Guidelines, Handicapped Children
Scheffelin, Margaret; Ballard, Tara – 1989
This legislative report presents the results of a pilot project conducted in eight suburban California school districts as part of an effort to develop a testing program identifying kindergartners with potential reading problems. The project was also intended to evaluate the program's effectiveness and gauge the feasibility of statewide…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Identification, Kindergarten Children, Pilot Projects
Kenney, Donald S., Ed. – 1981
Guidelines address California's procedures for the operation of programs for handicapped infants and preschool children. Legal requirements of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and the California State Plan are reviewed. Program guidelines focus on eligibility, child assessment, placement in the least restrictive…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis, Eligibility, Guidelines
Pillsbury, Charles A.; Maitland, Anne M. – 1983
The report updates aspects of the 1977 report on California's Master Plan for Special Education. Reasons are sought for the intense debate over state funding for special education, which has substantially increased over recent years while special education enrollments have increased only modestly. In visits to nearly 100 local education agencies,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accounting, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Chan, Wilma – 2002
This report of the Select Committee on California Children's School Readiness and Health, established in 2001, examines the relationship between the status of a child's health and its impact on school readiness and achievement. The report is intended to promote and facilitate continued dialogue, exploration, and research on student health and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Health Care, Attendance, Child Health
Winget, Pat, Ed.; Kirk, Joyce, Ed. – 1991
This monograph presents an overview of the current status of programs for students with serious emotional disturbances in California and makes recommendations for program improvements. An introductory chapter summarizes important themes including screening, prevention, and early intervention; definitions; eligibility issues; assessment;…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Definitions, Early Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education
Vasquez-Chairez, Maria – 1988
This handbook clarifies how to meet legal requirements when the same student population qualifies for both bilingual and special education programs. Legal streamlining of existing California-mandated requirements for bilingual and special education is emphasized. The handbook begins with a discussion of the difficulties encountered when providing…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Administration
Carroll, Andrea; And Others – 1976
The volume presents an overview of the secondary Resource Specialist Program for mildly and moderately handicapped students in California and reviews the most promising aspects of the program, directions in which the program appears to be headed, and some ideas on facilitating program growth and change. Included are five chapters with the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Identification
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1985
This report describes rationale, planning processes/tasks, and evaluation techniques of a 1985 workshop on special education needs of migrant handicapped students and findings and recommendations of workshop participant groups. The workshop was designed to analyze present policies relating to migrant handicapped students, to develop strategies for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Delivery Systems
Jones, Earl; And Others – 1980
Designed to assist California policy and decision makers with planning to meet the future educational needs of limited-English speaking (LES) and non-English speaking (NES) students, this study was undertaken: (1) to describe and analyze the implementation of all areas of the legislatively required services to LES/NES children, and the structures…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Ancillary School Services
Keaster, Charles W. – 1968
A description of programs for mentally gifted students covers types of programs, current status of the California program, and state apportionments for excess costs. Program characteristics listed are the objectives of three school districts, information program on program costs, school district participation, and district participation in a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Counseling Services, Educational Equipment, Educational Objectives
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. – 1969
Included in the report on special education services of Los Angeles schools are chapters on an overview of the special education branch programs; the educationally handicapped, aphasic, and trainable mentally retarded; development centers for handicapped minors; the aurally and visually handicapped; the orthopedically handicapped or other health…
Descriptors: Administration, Aphasia, Educational Programs, Enrollment
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