Evaluated is a regional model employing eight curriculum resource teachers (CRT's) in mainstreaming exceptional children from three rural Virginia counties. Described are the project's performance objectives and delivery system (including policy formulation, referral system, screening, and intervention based on needs assessment). Issues raised in…

The article raises questions about the resource room model as an educational delivery system for handicapped students. (Author)

Examined with 343 handicapped and 202 nonhandicapped elementary grade children was the relationship between exposure to a stratistician-generalist program and scores on measures of teacher ratings, self-concept, student perception of classroom climate, academic achievement, as well as grade level, sex, and classification. The 17…

The manual provides information on procedures--the videotape recording procedure (VTR), the mobile resource center (MRC), and the child services specialist (CSS)--developed and used in the Cooperstown (New York) Head Start Program, a 3-year experimental project for developing ways to deliver services to rural area preschool children with special…

The Saskatoon Region Special Services Project is a cooperative effort to implement the Standards for Educators of Exceptional Children in Canada (SEECC) model, which stresses special education service delivery for rural areas through regular and resource teachers rather than extensive use of consultants and special classes. It emphasizes…