The author expresses his fear that current practices designed to meet federal regulations regarding education of the handicapped may be merely surface compliance efforts. (CL)

Interviews with 11 teachers, specialists, and administrators focus on development of individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped students. (CL)

The author comments on the effect of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, on special education and introduces nine articles (EC 103 480-EC 103 488) dealing with individualized education programs. (CL)

The article reviews curriculum areas, team roles and approaches, and the transdisciplinary approach in developing individualized education programs for physically handicapped students. (CL)

Discussed are the rationale and procedures for developing individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped young children. (CL)

The article reviews the implications for secondary level handicapped students of legislative mandates requiring individualized education programs (IEPs). (CL)

The article discusses 11 steps involved in good teaching and in developing individualized education programs for handicapped students. (CL)

Public Law 94-142 requires, in part, that an individualized educational program for each handicapped child be prepared in a joint conference involving, at the very least, a parent, a teacher, and an administrator. (PHR)

The process of "functional assessment" is recommended to establish a basis for individualized behavior management programing for students with special needs. The approach is based on identifying the functions of the challenging behavior and involves systematically collecting information about the behavior and developing an intervention…

The author describes a resource room program to help junior-senior educable mentally retarded students in a modified open classroom designed to facilitate learner involvement on an individualized basis and to emphasize affective growth. (SBH)

Critical elements and best practices in school-to-work transition programs for disabled youth are identified. Noted are local factors, individual student choice, shared resources, vocational rehabilitation counselors in the schools, and school-business linkages. Best practices include individualized transition planning, community-based…

This case study demonstrates the effective use of functional assessment, with a 13-year-old student with autism functioning at a level of severe retardation. The process involved identifying and defining target behaviors (clothes touching and tearing), gathering information, forming and verifying the hypothesis, and implementing an intervention.…

This case study demonstrates the use of functional assessment to improve the classroom behavior of a 10 year old with mild mental retardation. The process involved conducting a brief prefunctional assessment, identifying variables for hypothesis testing, and developing and implementing an intervention based on the hypotheses. (DB)

This article highlights the importance of parents as intervention agents for young children with special needs. It describes individualized training in behavioral strategies for parents, explains procedures for helping parents gain skills that foster their children's development, and suggests that parents will maintain the skills and generalize…

This article provides an assessment tool and guidelines for creating instructional programing in aquatic skills development for children with disabilities functioning below levels required for most adapted beginning aquatics programs. It covers individualized goals and objectives, adjustment to the water, and specific aquatic skills. (DB)