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Dougan, Patricia; And Others – 1986
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…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Bernacchio, Charles; Fortinsky, Richard – 1988
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…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning, Employment Potential
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Schriner, Kay Fletcher; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1995
Preliminary data comparing individualized education program (IEP) development in three demonstration and three nondemonstration sites show that demonstration sites had significantly more individuals attending IEP meetings, more service options on the IEP, and more best-practice elements included in the IEP. Suggests that the demonstration site…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Eagle, Eva; And Others – 1989
Based on a study of 30 exemplary programs in six states, this guide offers help to educators trying to serve students with mild learning handicaps (the learning disabled, mildly mentally retarded, and the mildly emotionally disturbed) in mainstream vocational classrooms. The document consists of seven chapters and an appendix. The first chapter…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Emotional Disturbances
Pattschull, Paula – 1980
A project was conducted to serve directly individuals enrolled in adult education programs whose life potentials have been severely limited by specific learning disabilities. The target group was students whose academic achievement grade levels fell within a 0-4 (and secondarily 4-8) range. Direct service components were diagnostic testing and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Case Studies
Cole, Cassandra McCrory – 1992
In this information packet for special education administrators, the literature on collaboration between regular and special educators is reviewed, issues relative to the implementation of collaboration are discussed, and eight model sites are described. After an introduction, distinctions between collaboration and consultation are drawn. Key…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Educational Change
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Ash, Paul, Ed. – Indiana Federation Council for Exceptional Children Newsletter, 1987
This newsletter presents a list of 248 special education curriculum guides, identified as exemplary through the National Special Education Curricula Survey, a national service project of the Indiana Department of Education. The survey was sent to personnel at state departments of education, universities, schools, community agencies, and special…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Career Education, Curriculum Guides
Bragg, Debra D.; And Others – 1981
A study examined the distribution, use, and effects of 30 research and development products to improve vocational education for handicapped learners. These research and development efforts were studied through a mail survey returned from 321 respondents, telephone interviews with 100 respondents, and case studies of seven sites where these…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Daily Living Skills, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Sargent, Laurence R. – 1992
The Neighborhood Schools Project in Iowa was designed to evaluate a new special education service delivery system emphasizing prereferral intervention, collaboration, problem solving assessment, and frequent performance monitoring. Approximately 130 students with Individualized Educational Plans at 12 schools and an equal number at comparison site…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Change Strategies, Curriculum Based Assessment