The paper explores issues related to the provision of year-round schooling for gifted learners. Noted are individual differences among gifted learners, the trend toward providing differentiated curriculum in all content areas, and the importance of curriculum articulation. Reasons are offered to explain why many of the best gifted programs operate…

This paper traces the three stages of development of gifted programming in Taiwan, services that are now available in gifted education, and continuing challenges in gifted education. Critical events that shaped gifted education during 1973-79, 1980-81, and 1982-89 are described, including gifted programming for elementary students, junior high…

This report analyzes, via site visitations and telephone interviews, a sample of 23 well-established training programs which serve young hearing-impaired children, for compliance with Public Law 99-457. The programs represent 16 states and the District of Columbia, with several of the programs being recommended for the study by federal government…

This paper describes the philosophy and development of the Extracurricular Centres for Highly Gifted Children in Transvaal, South Africa. The centers' concepts of "gifted" and "highly gifted" are defined, and characteristics of gifted children are listed. The centers offer enrichment and acceleration classes in subjects outside…

Three papers present views on women in technology programs and occupations, and on Corning Community College's (CCC's) program to encourage women to enter technological fields in which they have been historically underrepresented. First, Edward F. Herman presents the historical background to the development of CCC's Women in Technology program,…

In October 1983 Pathfinder, an organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was awarded a federal grant to develop a community network model serving children with chronic health conditions and their families. This document describes the model, demonstrated at four sites in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The model is based on four key assumptions: (1)…

Ocean County College (OCC) has had a long-standing commitment to serving all those who might benefit from higher education. One of its efforts to serve the disabled is its Telecollege Program for Confined Adults, which began in fall 1978. Through the program, homebound students select and schedule courses through a counselor, who also arranges for…

The implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) has placed an enormous financial burden on local districts. In order to create special education programs that combine cost effectiveness and high quality, a regional model has been developed. The Therapeutic Residential Experience for Emotional Stability (TREES) in…

This presentation identifies factors which contributed to the rise of gifted/talented education programs in California from 1960 to 1987, factors contributing to the demise of such programs, and recommendations for improving the California Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Program. Recent years have brought about a lessening of the program's…

This paper presents management considerations for planning an in-school suspension program applicable to handicapped students and reviews relevant court rulings affecting formation of suspension and expulsion policies. The Supreme Court's 1975 decision in "Wood v. Strickland" established that a student cannot be deprived of the right of…