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Direct linkPoppes, P.; van der Putten, A.; Post, W.; Frans, N.; ten Brug, A.; van Es, A.; Vlaskamp, C. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2016
Background: Prevalence rates of challenging behaviour are high in children and adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). Moreover, many of these behaviours are observed daily. Direct support staff report that most challenging behaviour identified has little impact on the person with PIMD and attribute challenging…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Intervention
Sailor, Wayne; Goetz, Lori – 1983
The final report documents accomplishments of a project designed to establish a full time continuing education program for severely multiply handicapped young adults. The Over-21 project was further designed to establish a widely replicable, innovative, model educational program as an alternative to the traditional "day care" focus of…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Multiple Disabilities, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Download full textSobsey, Dick – 1985
The paper describes an interactive evaluation process based on E. Brown's transactional evaluation model, and its application to evaluating programs serving children with severe and multiple disabilities or other low incidence populations. The model emphasizes the first part of the assessment process, determining which questions to ask and what…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Models, Multiple Disabilities
Hursh, Daniel E.; House, Diane J. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1983
Evaluation of Play Unit for the Severely Handicaped (PUSH) designed for the living room of a residential area used by 16 severely retarded multiply handicapped persons revealed that the impact of the unit was individualized and diverse, and that the responsiveness of the environemt's components appeared to be important. (CL)
Descriptors: Building Design, Multiple Disabilities, Play, Program Evaluation
Tobias, Robert; And Others – 1982
Evaluation of the sixth and final year of operation for a preplacement program for 13 severely multiply handicapped deaf blind children, located in the Industrial Home for the Blind, is reported. The program is explained to prepare students for entrance into their existing special education programs. Qualitative findings on the physical setting,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Deaf Blind, Multiple Disabilities, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedMira, Mary – Mental Retardation, 1977
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Infants, Intervention, Motor Development
Fagan, Carol Anne; Gurry, Susan – 1981
A home-based respite care program for children and young adults with severe and multiple disabilities was conceived and developed by a group of parents and community members. A needs assessment revealed the scarcity of respite care in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. A pilot program was begun to test the model on a limited basis. Evaluation of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Home Programs, Multiple Disabilities, Parents
Hilton, Alan; Liberty, Kathleen – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1992
This study found little actual integration resulting from placement of 16 high school age students with severe multiple disabilities in special education classrooms within regular high schools. Guidelines for evaluating the integration of students are offered including a two-pronged test and examples of data appropriate for evaluating integration…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Interpersonal Relationship, Multiple Disabilities
Parsons, Marsha B.; Reid, Dennis H.; Green, Carolyn W.; Browning, Leah B. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1999
A study evaluated a program for reducing job coach assistance provided for three individuals with multiple severe disabilities. Workers were taught additional skills or the environment was modified to allow assistance reduction. Work activity and quality continued at a high level for each worker, although productivity decreased. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Helping Relationship, Multiple Disabilities, Productivity
Peer reviewedGillman, Arthur E.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1978
An evaluation of an intensive training program for 44 multiply handicapped adults who could not use other rehabilitation programs is described. (Author/BD)
Descriptors: Blindness, Daily Living Skills, Employment, Multiple Disabilities
Peer reviewedHarley, Randall K.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1977
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Multiple Disabilities, Pilot Projects, Program Descriptions
Harley, Randall K.; And Others – 1981
The document presents the final report of the Model Vision Project (MVP) Outreach Phase, funded to demonstrate appropriate educational, diagnostic, training, and other services to severely multihandicapped, visually impaired children. Roles of various staff are reviewed, and individuals serving as consultants are listed. Summarized are the goals…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Inservice Education, Intervention
Peer reviewedZeph, Lucille A. – Research in Rural Education, 1985
Outlines specific steps for implementing and validating a qualitative methodology designed to evaluate rural areas' special education programs serving students with severe special needs. Provides a rationale for use of the elements of aesthetic criticism as the basis of the methodology and discusses practical limitations and usefulness of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Disabilities, Naturalistic Observation
Crowner, T. Timothy; And Others – 1977
Presented is the final report of the Madison (Wisconsin) Alternative for Zero Exclusion (MAZE) project to develop public school services for 211 profoundly retarded and/or multiply handicapped students (5- to 21-years-old). Part I includes a description of the program with sections on the following components: an overview; the service delivery…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities
Peabody, Ralph L. – 1979
A 3 year project was initiated to develop, implement, and evaluate a program for training personnel to work with visually handicapped/multiply handicapped children. The ecological systems model proposed by N. Hobbs was examined as the primary consideration in the development of the program. Teachers under the project were prepared for roles which…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Demonstration Programs, Ecology, Higher Education
