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New Albany City Schools, MS. – 1973
The handbook offers guidelines for the development of preschool programs for 4- and 5-year-olds. Specific information on the New Albany (Mississippi) program such as staffing, funding, and scheduling is provided. The program rationale is said to be based on cognitive stages identified by Jean Piaget. Program purposes are seen to stress development…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Program Design
Drake Univ., Des Moines, IA. Midwest Regional Resource Center. – 1977
The handbook details planning and development of a direction service center (DSC), an agency which matches the needs of handicapped persons with appropriate services. A replication sequence, based upon practices of the Jackson County, Missouri, Direction Service Center, is discussed for the following six areas: development of a resource…
Descriptors: Community Services, Handicapped Children, Information Services, Program Administration
Lahay, Laurel, Comp.; And Others – 1976
The guide for instructors, volunteers and program organizers contains information on establishing swimming programs for disabled persons in Canada. Outlined are steps involved in securing funds and initiating program efforts, and listed are names and addresses of resources for specific handicapping conditions. General teaching suggestions are…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Handicapped Children
Heath, Earl J. – 1974
Current trends in exceptional child education are discussed in relationship to the need for better inservice training (IT) to upgrade the readiness of regular teachers to include exceptional children in their classes. Noted are trends such as increasing numbers of exceptional children in regular classrooms, and fewer children institutionalized or…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, Educational Trends, Exceptional Child Education
Thanos, George E.
Presented are recommendations for developing a secondary level work-study program for handicapped students. The recommendations given include provision for on-campus work training; opportunity for off-campus employment for students 16 years of age or older; employment placement based on readiness and need after assessment by the work-study…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Employment Opportunities, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. National Air And Space Museum. – 1977
Presented are guidelines drawn from surveys of programs and services provided for handicapped persons in U.S. museums. An initial section which reviews literature on museum programs for handicapped visitors focuses on problems and misconceptions regarding blind, deaf, physically handicapped, learning disabled and emotionally disturbed, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Facilities, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Parker, Scott L.; And Others – 1975
Presented is a manual on improving occupational programs for the handicapped based on a study of 30 existing vocational education programs falling into one of three categories--modified programs for handicapped students in the regular classroom, special programs for the handicapped in segregated classrooms, or special programs for severely…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Guidelines
Smith, Allen G.; And Others – 1977
This third year interim report, one of a series of documents on the evaluation of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC), presents findings from three major analyses of program implementation; measurement of the extent each program has implemented the basic PDC Guidelines; a description of patterns of that implementation; and analysis of some…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demonstration Programs
Semmel, Melvyn I.; Olson, Jerry – 1977
The document is a system documentation manual of the Computer-Assisted Teacher Training System (CATTS) developed by the Center for Innovation in Teaching the Handicapped (Indiana University). CATTS is characterized as a system capable of providing continuous, instantaneous, and/or delayed feedback of relevant teacher-student interaction data to a…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Karnes, Merle B.; Lee, Richard C. – 1978
Intended for preschool teachers, the monograph identifies components of an exemplary program for preschool handicapped children. The first chapter on identification reviews the steps involved in location, screening, and diagnosis. Chapter 2 considers the research literature on the role played by parents and the family in the child's intellectual…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Educational Diagnosis, Generalization