The collaborative efforts of clinic and school district personnel to provide comprehensive evaluations in children with severe learning disabilities are described. Reasons for mixed success of the program are discussed. (CL)

The article proposes a cooperative assessment strategy with language impaired children to assist the interdisciplinary psychoeducational evaluation and planning team to function as a unit by (1) agreeing on a theoretical framework, (2) cooperating in planning the assessment, (3) raising questions for the assessment, and (4) making cooperative…

Major objectives of the teacher workshop are to increase the empathy and knowledge of the regular teacher concerning the characteristics and problems of the LD student, and to work out communication problems and increase the dialogue between the resource learning center teachers and the regular classroom teachers. (SBH)

Defines and describes the consultation, collaboration, and teaming models that have been implemented for educating students with learning disabilities. Delineates how these models contribute to interactive teaming, outlines the key features of the interactive team, and provides some guiding principles for successful implementation of this model.…