Vocational placement, social needs, and the lack of proper transportation for disabled persons are major problems to be solved if physically handicapped people are to function in community life. Mobilization for Maturity was a 3-year research and demonstration project which utilized a self-help approach to help disabled people to re-enter…

Describes effort of mental health center staff to implement non-traditional programming for women in situational life crises. Successes in the work have helped overcome some objections to special approaches to women. Projects have community interest and support, have answered many unmet needs of women, and have enhanced service delivery.…

This annotated bibliography of 1,997 projects dated from 1955-1969 and administered by branches of the Social and Rehabilitation Service is divided into four parts: (1) Research and Demonstration Projects which were authorized by the 1954 amendments of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, listed under 22 subject headings, (2) Cooperative Research or…

A collection of nine papers selected from those presented at the Special Conference on Instructional Technology (San Antonio, Texas, December 1-4, 1970) concern instructional technology for personnel training. Included in the collection are papers on demonstration projects in instructional technology (purposes, planning, and problems),…

The Model Self-Improvement Program for Inmates (SIPI) was a joint effort of Northeast Texas Community College, the Lone Star Steel Company, and the sheriff's department of Morris County, Texas, to provide a model life skills program for incarcerated individuals. A curriculum that included life skills and vocational and academic training was…

The school/community improvement process adapted by the Rural, Small Schools Program at the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) serves to revitalize and improve rural schools, incorporating commitment of both school and community leaders to rural school improvement. This paper describes implementation of the process in four school districts,…

This document describes eight models of local and state special education efforts that are providing viable ways for parents to become more involved in their children's education. The models are designed to develop effective two-way communication and collaboration between parents and teachers, develop methods for parents to actively support their…

This report describes a federally funded project designed to meet the needs of culturally diverse children with special health care needs and their families in New York. The goal was to establish a model program that would demonstrate that the quality of life for culturally diverse children with special health needs and their families would be…

Volume I of this final report, an overview of Kentucky's multi-county Rural Child Care Project, describes the project's history, purposes, structure, and procedures in administering child-development, social-work and homemaking services. The day care program, which became a full-year Head Start program in 1967, is one aspect of the effort to…

This document, which was developed through a decade of research and field testing involving more than 700 people, offers step-by-step strategies that educators, employment specialists, occupational therapists, and other professionals can use to help youths and adults with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities make their own employment choices.…