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Mann, James W.; And Others – 1984
The paper summarizes major national federal programs paying benefits to handicapped children. Programs addressed include Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Maternal and Child Health Services, Crippled Children's Services, Developmental Disabilities Services, vocational rehabilitation, and housing and transportation.…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Federal Programs, Financial Support
Peer reviewedNava, Carolyn – Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1998
A psychiatric-hospital administrator describes how she agreed to be a foster parent for a troubled girl who was medically fragile. Together, and with community help, they formed Golden Buckets, an organization that provides therapeutic foster care for medically dependent children and their families. (MKA)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Involvement, Disabilities, Foster Care
Peer reviewedPowers, John T.; Healy, Alfred – Exceptional Children, 1982
A nationwide project (Physicians Serving Handicapped Children) to provide continuing medical education to primary care physicians who provide office based health care to handicapped children is described. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Continuing Education, Disabilities, Inservice Education
Download full textChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA. – 1982
The booklet presents papers from a December 1982 workshop on specific problems in caring for ventilator-dependent children (children with respiratory distress due to prematurity, low birth weight or developmental immaturity). Following excerpts from the keynote address by C. Everett Koop, the U.S. Surgeon General, model programs from Pennsylvania,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Educational Needs, Financial Policy
Leon, Loretta Tong – 1978
The paper describes the medical and education components of FIND (Florida Institute of Neuro-Dynamics), a private, nonprofit medical facility serving severely learning disabled, behaviorally disordered, autistic, and schizophrenic young adults. The program is reported to include a medical approach to etiology, with emphasis on allergy testing. The…
Descriptors: Allergy, Autism, Conceptual Schemes, Disabilities
Sciarillo, William G. – 1989
The report relates existing State Title V programs based on the Social Security Act to implications of Public Law 99-457 (the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1986), especially Part H which authorizes comprehensive coordinated statewide early intervention delivery systems for infants and toddlers with handicaps. In section I,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Community Programs, Compliance (Legal)
Gunzenhauser, Nina, Ed.; Caldwell, Bettye M., Ed. – 1986
Participants in this pediatric round table met to (l) detrivialize child care; (2) advance the concept of child care as a continuum of services; (3) establish the role of health care professionals in the design and implementation of high quality child care; and (4) develop action guidelines for use by professionals attempting to provide high…
Descriptors: Day Care, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
