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Sommers, Paul A. – 1978
Respite care for children with severe handicaps and their families has been developed to serve the rural, sparsely populated areas of upstate Wisconsin. Since its' inception, the program has provided a necessary outlet to the families of 51 children at a cost of $34.70 per day. The basic elements of the program lend themselves to being replicated…
Descriptors: Children, Cost Effectiveness, Program Descriptions, Respite Care
Download full textIsaacs, Mareasa R.; Goldman, Sybil K. – 1985
This monograph presents descriptions of 11 residential and day treatment programs serving seriously emotionally disturbed youth. Each program's description includes information about the program's origins, type of children served, guiding philosophy and treatment approach, services offered, work with families, linkages with other child-serving…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Day Programs, Delivery Systems
Barber, Eleanor – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1973
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Education, Hospitalized Children, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedBourgeault, Stanley E.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1977
Presented is the third article in a series describing the conceptualization, implementation, and results to date of the George Peabody College for Teachers' Model Center for Severely Handicapped, Multi-Impaired Children with Visual Impairment as a Primary Handicapping Condition. (Author/IM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Children, Conceptual Schemes
Goldman, Sybil K. – 1988
This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Programs, Community Services
Stroul, Beth A. – 1988
This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches, which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Programs, Community Services
Gall, Kathy – Bureau Memorandum, 1974
An interdisciplinary team has developed a planned sequential and individually appropriate educational program for seven trainable mentally handicapped children (3- to 10-years-old), from five rural school districts whose functioning levels are incongruent with IQ and who had never been exposed to a school setting. (GW)
Descriptors: Children, Daily Living Skills, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation
Moore, Gary T.; And Others – 1994
This paper summarizes a project which assessed and evaluated three alternative master planning alternatives and a final master plan for Children's Village, a residential center for children with severe emotional disturbances in Detroit, Michigan. The paper first presents an assessment of the current facilities and program of the center and then…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Facility Planning
Bochner, Sandra; And Others – 1988
Guidelines for assessing the current language skills of a language-delayed child and increasing the child's level of communicative competence are provided, based on experience at the Environmental Language Intervention Project at Macquarie University's Special Education Centre in Australia. The program is organized around five sequentially ordered…
Descriptors: Children, Class Activities, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Heckman, Iris; Rodwell, Mary K. – 1985
The purpose of the project was to develop an advanced, competency-based training program for residential youth service/child care workers providing services to children and adolescents with severe mental health or emotional problems. The program was designed in response to problems common to these workers in rural areas such as Kansas, including…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Burnout, Child Caregivers, Children
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1989
Described in this report is the Saturday Afternoon Free respite care program for moderately to severely handicapped children operated under the auspices of the Idaho State University (ISU) College of Education. In service for 4 years, it has been evaluated by parents and student participants as excellent. It was developed in response to the need…
Descriptors: Children, Family Caregivers, Family Involvement, Higher Education
Stroul, Beth A. – 1989
This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Community Services
Shawnee Hills Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center, Inc., Charleston, WV. – 1983
Descriptions of several programs of the Shawnee Hills Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center, Inc. (Charleston, West Virginia) are presented. Included in this document are: (1) a description of the Shawnee Hills Day Training Center, a cooperative program of Shawnee Hills and several county school boards for severely/profoundly impaired…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advertising, Children, Daily Living Skills
