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Download full textAmerican Society of Allied Health Professions, Washington, DC. – 1983
Selections from proceedings of a 1982 forum on collaboration between health and education groups serving disabled students and their families include an overview of the state of the art and suggestions for future cooperative ventures. In the keynote address, Senator L. Weicker, Jr., cites damaging effects of cutbacks in federal funds for special…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Allied Health Occupations, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Humphrey, Fred, Ed.; And Others – 1980
This document contains selected papers from the 1979 National Forum on Leisure Counseling. The initial paper is designed to guide the efforts of the Forum participants and to facilitate a more efficient use of time and resources by providing an historical review of literature relevant to certain issues in leisure counseling. The next paper…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Ethics, Human Services, Interdisciplinary Approach
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Office of Special Education. – 1981
Six presentations and a discussion summary are included from a 1981 symposium on educating handicapped infants. N. Johnson, "Assessment in Infant Education: Paradigms and Problems," notes shortcomings in current assessment approaches and addresses the importance of diagnosis, identification of educational goals, and evaluation of child…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Handicap Identification, Infants, Interdisciplinary Approach
Freedman, Aviva, Ed.; Pringle, Ian, Ed. – 1980
The 19 conference papers in this collection deal with the relationship of various rhetorical theories and their practical applications to the rhetorical traditions that they are superseding. The papers deal with many topics, including the following: (1) a multidisciplinary approach to writing instruction; (2) the importance of writing as a human…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Hofman, Helenmarie H., Ed.; Miller, F. Gene, Ed. – 1979
Reported are the proceedings of a conference of practitioners of energy education including classroom teachers, curriculum experts, administrators, and representatives from industry and government. Participants worked in six groups to produce papers and recommendations. Topics addressed by each group included: (1) State-of-the-Art and Needs…
Descriptors: Conferences, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Energy
Brown, Catherine Caldwell, Ed. – 1983
The booklet summarizes proceedings from a conference on prenatal and perinatal factors associated with learning disabilities and neurological problems. Many of the papers report data from the Collaborative Perinatal Project of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, a longitudinal study of pregnancy…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Birth Weight, Clinical Diagnosis, Diseases
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. – 1981
The following position papers are presented: (1) "Foreign Language Curricula and Materials for the Twenty-First Century," by Robert C. Lafayette and Lorraine A. Strasheim; and (2) "Global Education: An Area for Fruitful Collaboration between Foreign Language and Social Studies," by Judith Torney-Purta. The first paper discusses the necessity of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development
Mathes, J. C., Comp.; Pinelli, Thomas E., Comp. – 1981
The 42 papers in this volume discuss a variety of technical writing topics. The following are some of these topics: (1) industry's views on new directions in technical communication, and the technical writing skills that industry needs; (2) an interdisciplinary approach to teaching technical report writing in the community college; (3) designing…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Higher Education
Sih, Paul K. T., Ed. – 1978
The document consists of 15 papers presented at a conference to determine how much attention American institutions of higher education gave to Chinese studies from 1958-1978. Presented by representatives of American graduate and undergraduate institutions who are also members of the American Association for Chinese Studies, the papers reflected…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese Culture, Conference Proceedings
Peterson, Charles R., Ed. – 1991
This document is prefaced with a descriptive introduction to the "Access to the Arts Through Assistive Technology Project." The contents that follow are organized in 5 parts. Part 1 includes: "Introduction" (Betsy Foley), and "My Voice Has Wings" (Jeff Moyer). Part 2, "Major Addresses," presents: (1) "Welcome from the Wisconsin Department of…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Therapy, Assistive Devices (for Disabled)
Parker, Leann, Ed. – 1978
Four papers resulting from the fifth of a series of conferences on bilingual education are presented. "Current Perspectives" (L. Leann Parker, Shirley Brice Heath) discusses the status of bilingual education policy and related issues, including the problems of definition and goals, assessing bilingual education's effectiveness, program…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Children, Court Litigation, Curriculum Development
Brown, H. Douglas, Ed.; And Others – 1977
A selection of 27 papers presented at the 1977 TESOL convention is presented. Part one contains the four plenary-session papers which present: a comprehensive view of the teaching-learning process and related interdisciplinary research; the scope of research on language teaching; some of the larger issues in bilingual education; and a perspective…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Design
