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Reid, Dennis H.; Parsons, Marsha B.; Green, Carolyn W. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
Observations in 100 congregated community and institutional day-program sites for individuals with severe disabilities indicated that approximately half of consumer time was spent in purposeful activity, 75 percent of which was age-appropriate. In 20 percent of the sites most activity was age-inappropriate. Recommended program evaluation and…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adults, Age, Day Programs
Download full textTexas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Evaluation. – 1971
The 1970-71 report for the Texas Child Migrant Program evaluates: participants; pupil personnel services; age-grade discrepancy; participation in major emphasis areas; parental involvement; migrant program personnel; summer institutes; staff development; the impact of Title I Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Migrant Funds upon pupils…
Descriptors: Achievement, Day Programs, Dropouts, Language Acquisition
Schiffman, Gilbert B. – 1969
Greatest emphasis should be placed on the developmental and preventive aspects of the reading program, and the talents, skills, and responsibilities of the reading specialist should be redirected. At present too much time is spent by reading specialists in remediation work. To combat this and to work toward a total language arts program the author…
Descriptors: Day Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Arts, Preservice Teacher Education
Rammler, Linda H. – 1987
Principles and characteristics of program quality review are described as one means of evaluating values-based outcomes of day programs for persons with mental retardation. Program quality review may be distinguished from other evaluation systems in its focus on program outcomes--what actually happens to the people in the program--rather than on…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Role, Day Programs, Delivery Systems
Lakin, K. Charlie; And Others – 1990
The second of five volumes of a report on instructional programs for handicapped children and youth in day and residential facilities, this document describes methodologies and results of the first of four components of the study, a national survey of separate facilities for handicapped children and youth which yielded responses from 1,315 day…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Programs, Disabilities, Educational Change
Stephens, Susan A.; And Others – 1990
The third of five volumes of a study of instructional programs for handicapped children and youth in separate day care and residential facilities, this document presents the results of an analysis of State education agency (SEA) procedures and the impact of these procedures on special education services and practices within the targeted…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Programs, Disabilities, Educational Change
Stephens, Susan A.; And Others – 1990
The purpose of this study was to carry out the mandate of the Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1983 and 1986 which called for an analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness of procedures undertaken by state education agencies, local education agencies, and intermediate educational units to improve programs of instruction for handicapped…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Day Programs, Disabilities
