This publication is intended to help local school systems plan, implement, and expand programs for secondary aged handicapped students in Maine's public schools. An introductory section examines four major factors: assessment, curriculum, personal and career development, and graduation. The next section contains detailed descriptions of 10 program…

Presented is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's master plan (1974-75) for the education of blind, deaf, mentally retarded, crippled, and health impaired children. A reexamination of the educational service system for the disabled is said to have resulted from a plan to enroll all disabled children who express the wish to be enrolled in school,…

This final report describes activities and achievements of a federally supported 3-year program to train school guidance counselors and rehabilitation counselors to provide transition services for students with disabilities. The report is organized around the program's five goals: (1) develop, refine, and implement a training program to develop…

The Black Hills Special Services Cooperative provides innovative and model practices for serving individuals with disabilities in a rural area of South Dakota. This article reviews the program's history and background, curriculum development, evaluation, and transitional and supported employment utilizing an entrepreneurial model of partnerships…

This publication on planning to meet vocational needs is the fifth in the Self-Help series of five booklets designed for Alaska administrators and teachers to improve vocational services provided to handicapped pupils. It begins with a checklist of implications for administrators and teachers. These discussions and/or materials are provided: (1)…

This paper begins with an overview of the population of adolescents and young adults with deafness. More detailed information is then provided on the characteristics of lower achieving deaf persons and those with multiple disabling conditions. School-to-community transition experiences of these groups are then discussed, with special focus on the…

This publication contains 60 abstracts of projects funded by the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education, to provide innovative preservice and inservice training initiatives for personnel in the area of career/vocational education for handicapped persons. Program areas covered in the abstracts include preservice and…

This fourth annual compilation contains resumes of ongoing projects in career education, vocational education, and education and work that are funded by contracts and grant awards administered by the following agencies: the U.S. Department of Education's Division of Career Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, National Institute of…