The document contains the final performance report of an outreach project designed to stimulate and develop increased specialized services for children, 0 to 4 years old, who have handicaps and who reside in the rural counties of Missouri and to demonstrate the efficacy of utilizing a state university extension service as a model of outreach…

The paper presents an overview of the interdisciplinary team approach for providing services to multihandicapped learners (3 to 18 years old). The model was developed to alleviate problems encountered by educational personnel serving the multihandicapped in a rural state. The model incorporates a local and a state interdisciplinary team. The two…

The paper describes the proposed Upper Cumberland Early Intervention Project (UCEIP), a project designed to serve 20 handicapped preschoolers a year over a 3 year period in rural Tennessee. The project involves continuation and expansion of two service delivery models for rural areas and is funded under the Developmental Disability Services Act,…

The three papers examine rural early education and related services for young children with handicaps. The first paper is entitled "A University Based Inservice Training Model for Personnel Serving Handicapped Preschoolers" by S. Stile and T. Pettibone and reports evaluation results of a New Mexico project serving 14 teachers with a 5…

This document summarizes a conference sponsored by the Montana University Affiliated Rural Institute on Disabilities (Rural Institute). The Rural Institute is a center for interdisciplinary, multi-organizational research, service, and training projects aimed toward improving the lives of persons with disabilities who live, work, and recreate in…

Describes a report on New Mexico's public school services for three- and four-year-old handicapped children, focusing on features of special interest to rural educators. Topics are curriculum selection, program models, and program delivery system alternatives. (JHZ)

The proceedings from the March 1985 conference on rural special education present papers, abstracts, and presentation materials on a wide range of topics. Topics include: rural delivery models, a learning center approach to health and physical education, the microcomputer as an electronic teacher's aide, supervision strategies for a rural…

Describes how the Blackfeet Head Start Program uses professionals to train local residents as screeners and home trainers for preschool handicapped children. Notes that numbers of handicapped children and their families who receive services have increased as a result of using local home trainers and teachers as direct care providers. (JHZ)

Describes the principles of program evaluation and the technical assistance provided in 1986-87 to North Dakota local educational agencies for evaluating their special education programs. Emphasizes local control of the evaluation activities and includes an example of planning for a local evaluation study on least restrictive environment. (JHZ)

This publication presents the thinking and experience of experts from around the world on matters relating to the role of teacher education institutions in responding to nontraditional programs for children, youth, and adults in changing societies. Case studies of formal and nonformal education programs in the fields of agriculture and rural…

Describes a program in which a teacher's aide is trained in the components of the Teaching Research Data-Based Classroom Model and then provides individual instruction, under the supervision of a certified teacher, to one or two children with handicapping conditions. Notes curriculum, student assessment, data collection procedures, and program…

Project Sunrise, a home based parent training model, was designed to serve preschool handicapped children living in rural areas of Montana. Literature was reviewed on when to begin educational intervention, the results of early intervention, the types of intervention most effective, the positive effects of parent education, and the benefits of…

The document contains the final report of a model educational program for handicapped preschoolers in Preston County (West Virginia). Section I offers the history of the project and background information on the geographic location, operating characteristics, children served, and staffing pattern. Section II outlines the original project…

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 Distance Learning Program was implemented in 1984 by Ikipujung Pandang University to provide training opportunities for nondegree secondary school teachers in isolated rural areas of eastern Indonesia whereby they did not have to attend classes on a regular, full-time basis at a conventional educational institution. The program focuses on…