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Slade, David – Academic Therapy, 1984
Teachers and parents can help learning disabled students make transitions to mainstream settings by preparing them for change in physical conditions, instructing them in organization and time management, teaching them interpersonal skills through role-playing, and assisting them in identifying and responding to a variety of emotions. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
Forum, 1993
These four issues discuss issues in the education of children with disabilities. The Spring 1992 issues focuses on developing transition systems. Articles include: "Vocational Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Transition: Service Delivery and Professional Issues" (Edna M. Szymanski et al.); "Personnel Preparation To…
Descriptors: Conferences, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Methods
Rugg, Deborah – 1989
The directory provides an annotated listing of 208 projects funded under the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Secondary and Transition Initiative since 1984. Data were obtained from a 1989 questionnaire of project characteristics as well as from original project grants and previous years' profiles. The introduction describes the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Gerber, Paul J. – Education Unlimited, 1981
Children traveling from the mainstreamed classroom to the resource room or to related services may need special attention and psychological support to smooth the transition. The resource teacher can help prevent problems by such actions as watching for behavioral cues of stress or crisis. (CL)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming
Streitmatter, Janice L.; Santa Cruz, Rafaela M. – Pointer, 1982
When seriously emotionally disturbed students from an institution are placed in public schools, transition programs are critical. Responses of public school teachers and institutional teachers to a questionnaire identified communication and long range planning as major concerns. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Program Development, Public Schools
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deFur, Sharon H. – Exceptionality, 2003
This article presents a model for integrating transition planning into the Individualized Education Program (IEP) with a focus on developing quality student-centered strategic plans. Strategies for developing effective transition practices, following meaningful processes, and creating efficient and effective IEP products are described. (Contains…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs
Alliance: The Newsletter of the National Transition Alliance, 1996
This theme issue provides four articles that address family involvement in the transition of youth with disabilities from school to work. The first article, "Family Involvement" by Marge Goldberg and Shauna McDonald, offers evidence of the importance of family involvement at this stage of the individual's life, reports on families' experiences,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bloomer, Joan M. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Tips are offered on how to ease the transition of students from elementary to middle level or junior high schools. A teacher-advisor program is proposed, and staff development modules are suggested to help teachers assist students in the transition process. (TE)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Middle Schools, School Readiness, Staff Development
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George, Nancy L.; Lewis, Timothy J. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1991
This program for reintegrating students with disabilities into the mainstream involves data-based decisions during the following phases: long-range planning, assessing the less restrictive setting, approximating new placement routines, assessing student readiness, the transition, followup, and evaluation. A checklist for assessing the less…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Steensma, Mary – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1992
Head-injured students making the transition back to school need to relearn how to learn. Strategies are offered for helping these students deal with such problem areas as organization skills, abstraction, attention and concentration, making transitions, writing, and information processing speed. (JDD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Head Injuries, Learning Strategies
McElroy, Meg; Gilmer, Debbie – 1993
This annotated bibliography on student outcomes was developed as part of a Maine project studying the effectiveness of transition programs for students with disabilities. The 75 citations are listed alphabetically by author and date from 1985 through 1993. (DB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nevin, Ann; Thousand, Jacqueline – Planning and Changing, 1986
Based on an extensive literature search, this paper identifies key actions school administrators may take regarding systems that limit or avoid student referrals for special education services. Findings indicate that referrals may be limited by early intervention strategies and overall improvement of the mainstream educational system. Includes 93…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
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O'Shea, Dorothy J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1994
This article highlights transition issues in terms of sending teachers' or receiving teachers' actions in preparing for transition movements, linking the preparatory and receiving environments, and facilitating students' participation in the receiving environment. For each issue, the steps used by sending teachers and receiving teachers to address…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Cooperation, Educational Planning, Educational Practices
Frey, Laura; Lane, Cindy – 1995
The Bridges Program of the Wyandotte Comprehensive Special Education Cooperative in Kansas works to have students with chronic aberrant behavior in alternative school settings function successfully in a self-contained setting in the student's home school. The program works to create an environment which will address the curriculum needs and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education
Black, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1999
Researchers say transition programs need to last longer than just the first few days of a new school year. Most transition programs consider only one thing helping students adjust to their new school. Schools need to go through a transition process of their own, paying serious attention to the research on transition, adjusting to the students, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, School Organization
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