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…

Described is a program designed to provide appropriate teaching materials and strategies for learning disabled students in regular classrooms. The program is explained to include special education resource teachers, a learning materials center, and pre-planned self-instructional learning packages, with the goal of supporting and complementing the…

The handbook outlines a resource room program which provides an alternative to segregated special classes for mildly handicapped elementary students. The primary goal of the resource room is to maintain students with special needs in a regular classroom by providing supportive and educationally related services both to the student and to his/her…

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…

Based on a sample of 12 school sites in California, the report documents the effectiveness of the secondary Resource Specialist Program (RSP) which provides instruction and services for handicapped students--primarily the learning disabled--who are assigned to a regular classroom for a majority of the school day. A number of program components are…