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Best Practices for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities: A Rural Retrospective
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Collins, Belva C.; Ludlow, Barbara L. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
The field of special education's focus on moderate and severe disabilities (MSD) has undergone a number of changes in the past five decades. Some have been philosophical, some based on research, some based on mandated practices through U.S. law, and some based on the development of better technologies. While pioneers in the field first established…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Severe Disabilities, Severity (of Disability), Special Education
Conducting an Analysis of Community Work Environments Relative to the Employment of the Severely Handicapped. Working Paper 85-4. COMPETE: Community-Based Model for Public-School Exit and Transition to Employment.
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Easterday, Joseph R.; Sitlington, Patricia L. – 1985
The purpose of Project COMPETE is to use previous research and exemplary practices to develop and validate a model and training sequence to assist retarded youth to make the transition from school to employment in the most competitive environment possible. Described in this project working paper is a system of analyzing community work environments…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Job Analysis
Integrating Preference Assessment within the Transition Process To Create Meaningful School-to-Life Outcomes.
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Lohrmann-O'Rourke, Sharon; Gomez, Ophelia – Exceptionality, 2001
This article discusses the inclusion of systematic preference assessment within transitional planning as a way to accurately interpret the preferences of students who use limited symbolic or nonsymbolic communication means. By using person-centered planning as a framework, it illustrates how to embed preference assessment within transitional…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Decision Making, Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Methods
Valley Transitional School Project, Final Report, October 1, 1984-September 30, 1987.
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Virginia State Dept. of Rehabilitation Services, Richmond. – 1987
The final report of the 3-year Valley Transitional School Project, serving Augusta, Staunton, and Waynesboro schools, all located in Augusta County, Virginia, contains information on the project accomplishments, population characteristics, evaluation activities, dissemination activities, replication, products developed, and conclusions and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Implementing and Maintaining an Effective Early Childhood Comprehensive Technology System.
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Hutinger, Patricia L.; Johanson, Joyce – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2000
The Early Childhood Comprehensive Technology System (ECCTS) was a 3-year collaborative project designed to implement and maintain a comprehensive technology system through on-going training, follow-up and technical support for teachers, team-based technology assessment for children with moderate to severe disabilities, technology integration into…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Design
Young Children with Disabilities in Natural Environments: Methods and Procedures
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Noonan, Mary Jo; McCormick, Linda – Brookes Publishing Company, 2006
With its comprehensive coverage of instruction and intervention practices in natural environments, this is the essential methods textbook for preservice educators and therapists preparing to work with young children who have disabilities. Focusing on children from birth to age 5, this text gives future professionals a wealth of specific, practical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Group Instruction, Disabilities, Young Children
Assessing the Transition Needs of Young Adults with Dual Sensory and Multiple Impairments. Assessment Guidelines, Volume 3.
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Everson, Jane M. – 1996
The purpose of this manual is to guide Individualized Education Program (IEP)/transition planning teams in assessing the transition needs of individuals with dual sensory or multiple impairments, who are between the ages of 14 and the mid-20s. It presents a person- and family-centered approach that develops a personal profile of the individual in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Community Education, Deaf Blind