The aim of the article is to describe the assessment model adopted by the SCINTILLA Project, a project in Italy aimed at the online vocational training of young, seriously-disabled subjects and their subsequent work inclusion in smart-work mode. It will thus describe the model worked out for evaluation of the training program conceived for the…

Major elements of independent living programs for the severely disabled are described, existing programs are cited, and a hypothetical program model is offered. (SBH)

The newsletter describes the development of a vocational training model for severely handicapped and deaf blind adolescents. The need for innovative vocational models in the secondary school is discussed. Three stages of the vocational training model are presented--assessment in five job samples (food service, groundskeeping-agriculture,…

The Pennsylvania Training Model's Educational Planning System for teaching the severely/profoundly handicapped is described. (Author)

The article describes the Active Response Inservice Training Model (ARITM), a classroom-based one-to-one instructional approach for teachers of severely handicapped students. (CL)

Described are the conceptualization, implementation, and results to date of the George Peabody College for Teachers Model Center for Severely Handicapped Multi-impaired Children with Visual Impairment as a Primary Handicapping Condition. (Author/IM)

The document provides information on the Lexington School for the Deaf inservice training project, COTTA (Community Oriented Teacher Training for Adolescents), which stresses techniques for working with severely handicapped/hearing impaired (SH/HI) adolescents in a community based, urban environment, teacher/counselor model. Part I contains an…

Presented is the third article in a series describing the conceptualization, implementation, and results to date of the George Peabody College for Teachers' Model Center for Severely Handicapped, Multi-Impaired Children with Visual Impairment as a Primary Handicapping Condition. (Author/IM)

This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…

The final report describes the Comprehensive Communication Curriculum (CCC), a 4-year program involving the communication skills of severely and multiply handicapped students with very little spontaneous communication skills. The program was designed to teach the students appropriate easily learned responses for requesting objects and initiating…

Described is a preschool program designed to provide early intervention in special education for severely handicapped children, which is noted to have been expanded to include children with severe behavioral disturbances and cognitive and developmental disabilities. The program is reported to serve nine children for 3 hours daily five days a week,…

This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches, which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…

Presents a model for the care of multiply handicapped children (from infancy to about age eight). TEMPO (Training, Evaluation, Home Management, and Parent Orientation) is a program designed to increase understanding of the multiply handicapped child and to develop a combined family-community support system to ensure the child a quality life. (PHR)

The Secondary Education Transition Model project at Colorado State University-Fort Collins represents a local and state commitment to serve students with severe handicaps who are moving into community work and living roles. These comprehensive transition services begin at the secondary education level and extend into the adult service system. The…

The first of a two volume report on a project to develop a statewide (Kansas) model for inservice and preservice training of teachers of severely handicapped students describes the general approach to the model as well as details its necessary features, the project's organization and its relationship with the State Department of Special Education…