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Potter, Cindy – Exceptional Parent, 2010
Almost everyone enjoys a walk through a garden, bending to sniff a flower, enjoying a fresh air breeze, listening to water bubbling from a fountain, and watching sunlight dapple through trees and plants. At Allegheny Valley School (AVS), the emphasis on multisensory environments (MSE) for individuals with intellectual and developmental…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Physical Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Residential Institutions
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2007
The California School for the Deaf's Fremont campus will soon start offering a day program for adolescents with a daunting set of educational challenges: autism or severe developmental disabilities, in addition to deafness. The new class is part of a legal settlement between the school and the parents of a 15-year-old student who believe their…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Deafness, Day Programs, Developmental Disabilities
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Logan, Ellis – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
The present paper gives an overview of some of the modular day courses offered and, in some cases, developed by tutors at a former hospital school providing education to adults with severe learning disabilities. The aims of the courses were cognitive and personal development, as well as aesthetic and spiritual enrichment. Art history was offered…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developmental Disabilities, Art History, Playwriting
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Schalock, Robert L.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1993
The current status of state mental retardation/developmental disability agency information systems related to day and employment programs for persons with disabilities is described. Data regarding the number and characteristics of persons served in various day-employment programs and the funding sources are summarized. Suggestions regarding data…
Descriptors: Agencies, Data Collection, Database Design, Day Programs
Colorado State Dept. of Institutions, Denver. Div. of Developmental Disabilities. – 1994
This report presents the 1994 update for a 5-year plan developed in 1992 which emphasizes changes resulting from restructuring Colorado state government and its departments. The first section presents the mission statement of the Division for Developmental Disabilities, a statement of the Division's operating principles, and a statement of desired…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Day Programs, Decentralization, Developmental Disabilities
Winbaum, Stephen – Exceptional Parent, 2006
In this article, the author talks about three special needs camps--Camp Kirk, Camp Talisman and Camp Caglewood. Camp Kirk's philosophy is to encourage their children to take risks in a structured setting, like high ropes courses, rock climbing wall, martial arts, and traditional activities like swimming, arts and craft, drama, and others. Once…
Descriptors: Resident Camp Programs, Summer Programs, Attention Deficit Disorders, Learning Disabilities
Graham, Jennifer M. – Camping Magazine, 1996
A cooperative camp program trained three teenagers with developmental delays to be counselors-in-training (CITs) for a children's day camp. Trainees learned about the basic chain of command at camp, first aid and emergency care, child development, and behavior management. The program was deemed successful in increasing job opportunities for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Camping, Children, Cooperative Programs