The article describes the design and implementation of instruction in business subjects based on task analysis, individual progress, behavioral objectives, and criterion-referenced tests. Project background, basic student deficiencies, and project evaluation are reported. Success in making specific objectives more accessible to students and…

Provided is the 1975-76 evaluation of a center providing individualized prescriptive programs for secondary-level learning disabled students. Changes in the program for the third year of operation are noted to have been an emphasis on the evaluation of the group counseling format (based on Reality Therapy and using a team of two co-facilitators)…

Moderate success of individualized programs for severely and profoundly mentally retarded persons in a library setting is documented in this report. These programs were developed following a survey tabulation and analysis of individual education programs, individual program plans, programs assessment chart profiles, and psychological and speech…

The Infant-Parent Training Program is a model program providing day care, therapy-nursery, and home programs for handicapped children from 0 to 3 years old. Upon intake into the program, both parents and children attend four 1-hour diagnostic sessions during which children are assessed in the areas of cognitive functioning, language functioning,…

This monograph, one of a series on youth with disabilities and the juvenile justice system, focuses on best practices for reducing delinquency and preventing recidivism. This essay notes that, because of the connection between disability and delinquency, it is likely that a significant portion of court-involved, disabled youth can be expected to…

Part of a training curriculum designed to prepare a multidisciplinary team of preservice/inservice personnel to deliver vocational and special education experiences for disabled individuals, this competency-based module focuses on model vocational special needs programs. Content includes rationale, objectives, prerequisites, evaluation procedures…

A case study, in-depth description, and analysis of a youth tutoring youth program are presented in this document. The approach used in preparing the study--mainly utilizing participant observation, site visits, and structured interviews--are detailed in a separate chapter. This is followed by a chapter of background information in which the…

This final report describes Project Dakota, an early intervention demonstration project serving newborns to preschoolers with developmental delay or disability in Dakota County, Minnesota, from 1983 to 1986. The first chapter describes the project model (which focuses on increasing the effectiveness of parents in fostering the child's development)…

The report examines the attitudes of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program toward the program as indicated by their responses to an interview schedule (included in an appendix) administered near the end of the first program year (1972-73). Regarding post-high school plans most…

The publication was developed to provide cursory information about the people, places, and things essential to career and vocational education that may be seen at the Comprehensive Illinois Occupational Education Demonstration Center (CIOEDC) in Joliet, Illinois. The CIOEDC was designed to demonstrate several K-14 career and vocational education…

A one-year evaluation was conducted of the Exemplary Business and Office Education (BOE) Program as implemented in seven rural Colorado schools. The individualized program featured a two-period block core curriculum with three or more optional areas of study. Evaluation objectives were to describe the exemplary projects in light of the…

Focusing on program development and evaluation, this document presents the summative evaluation of the community development component of the Mountain-Plains Career Education Model IV, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state area. The report…

The report for FY 1973 describes the planning and implementation of the secondary level Employer Based Career Education Program at Far West School (FWS). The report's introduction briefly describes the program's nature and objectives. Section 2, student recruitment and enrollment, describes the student population and the recruitment and selection…

Using a collaborative approach in three York County (Maine) school districts, representatives from special education and vocational rehabilitation implemented a model program of transition services for specific learning-disabled (SLD) individuals, aged 16 to 22 years old. The experimental group consisted of 32 SLD individuals and the control group…

The evaluation summary covers the first year's operation of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. The report's first section describes the student, employer-related, and parent-related goals of the program; program operation and costs; and replication concerns (transportation, costs per…