This final report describes activities and accomplishments of the Vermont State Project for Children and Youth with Deaf-Blindness, a 3-year federally supported project to provide statewide services, training, and technical assistance to Vermont children (birth to age 21) with deaf-blindness, their families, and service providers. Throughout the…

This final report describes activities and accomplishments of the Arkansas Project for Children and Youth with Deaf/Blindness, a 3-year federally supported project to provide support services to children and youth in Arkansas who are deaf-blind. The project provided technical assistance in the following areas: early identification, incidence and…

This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a federally supported pilot project promoting access to inclusive education for Kansas children with dual sensory impairments. The project focused on developing a system of technical assistance and training to provide education for students with dual sensory impairments in general…

Rural schools have often lacked sufficient resources to acquire training, consultant, and evaluative services. The expertise of faculty in university teacher and administrator training programs has been largely untapped. This is primarily because of a lack of programs linking rural schools with the university faculties that might provide needed…

The following considerations are of major importance to the persons who act as technical assisters for the Long Range Plan for School Improvement (LRPSI) in Pennsylvania: (1) long-range planning should be viewed as a deliberative and participative process; its steps should not be considered in isolation from each other; (2) comprehensive needs…

Project COMPUOCC.LEP, a Title VII-funded program of instructional and support services, served 400 Hispanic students of limited English proficiency with special handicapping conditions. It also served 36 special education teachers at 14 Bronx (New York) intermediate and junior high schools, offering on-site technical assistance in curriculum…

This paper reports on the author's 4-week consultation with faculty of the Lesotho National Teachers College as part of the Primary Education Project which provided technical assistance with issues of primary age schooling in the Kingdom of Lesotho. The consultant worked with 12 faculty members of the National Teachers College in a process that…