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Link, Patricia W. – 1979
The paper describes the Lafayette Parish Homebound Program (Louisiana) for students in grades K-12, with particular emphasis on the program's services for pregnant girls. Procedures for admitting students into the program, objectives for the pregnant girls (12-18 years old), and program components are considered. It is explained that the special…
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Home Instruction, Homebound, Nontraditional Education
Download full textSprawls, Helen; And Others – 1984
A transcription is presented of a conference sponsored by Rio Salado Community College (RSCC) to provide information on the use of audio teleconferencing to offer live, interactive classes for the homebound. After an introductory statement on RSCC's Homebound Project, Jan Baltzer provides an overview of the SUNDIAL network, RSCC's audio…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Educational Needs, Home Instruction
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Teachers College. – 1974
This document describes a training program for in-service homebound teachers and pre-service (master's degree) students designed to reduce teacher isolation from other professionals, and to define and maintain standards in a field with a rapidly changing pupil population. Purposes of the project are presented in four components: (1)…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Homebound
Peer reviewedPage, Ann E. K.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1988
A required eight-week rotation in ambulatory medicine at three clinics that included house calls by medical students is described. The students' evaluation of the curriculum provided information on the effectiveness to teaching strategies and the success of transmitting knowledge about the homebound elderly. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Family Practice (Medicine), Geriatrics
Peer reviewedFreed, Benjamin; Kirstein, Mark – Optometric Education, 1995
A mobile eye care service is offered to homebound elderly residents of New York City (New York) by the State University of New York's College of Optometry. Fourth-year students are required to participate, learning techniques with hand-held equipment to examine a population with a high rate of ocular disease who might otherwise not receive…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Coogle, Constance L., Ed.; Finley, Ruth B., Ed. – 1994
A program was developed in Virginia to train Black and rural family caregivers of persons with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease. This final program report begins with project briefs that summarize major products and findings, program objectives and accomplishments, and dissemination activities. Chapter 1 addresses issues related to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alzheimers Disease, Blacks, Community Resources
Anderson, William R.; And Others – 1981
A summary of the original 14 federally funded Regional Education Programs, which served as models of ways in which postsecondary campuses can provide services to disabled students, is presented, along with recommendations for an effective program, annotated bibliographies, and four fact sheets designed to answer specific questions about…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Ancillary School Services, Blindness
