The document contains three issues of the newsletter of the Research and Training Center to Improve Services for Seriously Emotionally Handicapped Children and Their Families. The first issue is introduced with an article titled "Re-Thinking Emotional Disturbances in Children," by Thomas M. Young. Topics covered include the following: issues…

The guidelines discuss appropriate educational services for children with special health problems. An initial chapter considers the range of common needs of this population, including modification of daily schedule and health related services. Five suggestions are offered to support families, among them understanding needs and rights and…

This manual describes an alternative service delivery model, developed at Park Hill School District in Missouri, that involves regular and special education secondary-level teachers in a collaborative instructional delivery system. Its three major components include: (1) "A Class within a Class" which places the teacher of mild/moderate learning…

The School of Education and the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Virginia have jointly developed and implemented a Master of Education program, in elementary education, which is conducted on-site in three regions: Appalachia, rural southside Virginia, and northern Virginia. The field-based program was centralized into a…

An assessment of the sports and fitness promotion delivery mechanism in Canada is presented. Where appropriate, some comparisons between the United States and Canadian systems are made. The introduction reviews the research methods used. The second section traces the federal government's concern with fitness and sports through the stages of…

This book brings together seven presentations from a conference on inservice teacher education and the results of the deliberations of five task forces on aspects of inservice in British Columbia. The first speaker noted the ironic fact that staff development programs for teachers often violate the best known theories about training by not using a…

The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) for staff development is an empirically-based conceptual framework which outlines the developmental process that individuals experience as they implement a new innovation. The model is based on the assumption that, when persons responsible for implementing change via inservice programs have relevant…

This monograph, developed as a guide for companies interested in establishing drug abuse programs, begins with a brief summary of studies assessing the extent and costs of employee drug use. The next section addresses some practical and conceptual issues about establishing a drug abuse program. Suggestions for implementing a drug abuse program are…

This publication of the CDA Clearinghouse offers brief descriptive abstracts of 4 CDA programs which reflect CDA training criteria and have been judged to be usable in various programs and localities. Each abstract consists of a program overview and describes the implementation of each of the 6 CDA training criteria. The overviews discuss program…

The House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education met on April 28, 1980, to hear testimony regarding progress made and problems encountered in implementing Title XI Amendments. Various representatives of Indian Affairs and Indian Education Programs testified on the following: recent changes in BIA education programs;…

There is clearly a need to develop strategies that will increase the likelihood that research on teaching will produce results that can and will be applied in the classroom. Problems resulting from the traditional theoretical structure for implementation of educational research arise from the isolation of its components and participants (research,…

This article urges a reexamination of the concept of dissemination of health-related prevention programs. The article discusses factors that serve as sustaining conditions for dissemination of prevention programs including: (1) the nature of preventive intervention and parameters of effective community-based prevention praxis; (2) aspects of the…

This annual report describes the activities and accomplishments of the Colorado Part C statewide system of early intervention for fiscal year 1999-2000. It begins by discussing the agencies involved in the provision of services and other supports in early intervention. The innovative service delivery models that are used and the program's sources…

Describes an evaluation of performance-based teacher education (PBTE) programs conducted in three Australian states for technical and further education teachers during 1979. The objectives of the research included effectiveness of the PBTE approach, reactions of participants in the programs, and institutional considerations in its operation.…

A survey of 21 supported-employment program-managers in South Australia found highest identified priority training needs focused on areas of systems development and evaluation, and technological skills. Few reported training needs in areas related to direct-service delivery, even though most had some professional duties in this capacity.…