The Tennessee Early Intervention Network for Children with Handicaps (TEINCH) examined problems in the transition from early childhood to elementary school programs. Surveys of administrators from public schools and preschools revealed helpful strategies (such as encouraging both preschool and school personnel to attend the child's individual…

The paper reviews a panel presentation on the essential components, policies, and strategies of a system for effectively moving emotionally disturbed (ED) students into least restrictive educational environments and maintaining them there. The first two parts of the session focused on a system for partially mainstreaming center school (seventh and…

The author describes her plan for dealing with life transitions. The plan has three steps. First, the individual in transition must accurately perceive the situation; second, respond to the situation, change, or transition; and third, reassess his or her perception of the transition. (CT)

The authors review several existing models of vocational assessment for the special needs learner. They argue the need to include generalizable skills assessment information in the vocational assessment process and provide suggestions for incorporating this information in the vocational assessment process for the special needs learner. (CH)

Identifies common themes in the area of youth education in selected developing countries: (1) the emphasis on youth education as part of national development, (2) the importance of political contexts in provision of education and training, and (3) the curricular changing emphasis toward vocational relevance and mastery of the learning process.…

The article describes the "Certificate of Prevocational Education" (CPVE), designed to provide British students (including special needs students) over age 16 with a one-year modular, full time framework of core and vocational studies to aid transition from school to work. Curriculum areas include personal and career development, social…

A forced change in employment status means the impact on the worker and immediate family can be devastating. Assisting workers during this transition period is an important adult career counseling task. They must see the journey back to satisfying work as a series of planned adjustments. (CH)

Observes that admissions counselors have been concerned with policies that affect the lives of students as they make the transition from high school to college. Traces the ways in which the National Association of College Admission Counselors has worked to ensure that all aspects of human relations are addressed. (ABB)

A study to determine whether placement of slower learners in transition rooms rather than keeping them in kindergarten or moving them ahead to first grade failed to provide conclusive answers, but did reveal that students in the transition rooms made significant academic gains. (PGD)

The "All Means All School-to-Work Project" was a 3-year federally-funded collaborative between the Institute on Community Integration and the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning. The Project was dedicated to finding out what works for all learners when it comes to access, benefit, participation and choice within school-to-work…

Educational policymakers and practitioners seem to be in agreement that a seamless transition from high school to college is important. Higher education has realized its responsibility and vested interest in working with the K-12 sector and has a long history of such collaboration. This CRitical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet describes resources…

This document is a catalog of approximately 50 projects concerned with the transition from school to work of students with disabilities and sponsored by the Division of Personnel Preparation (DPP) of the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for the fiscal year 1992. The introduction notes that these…

A model of assisting students in the transition to university education is presented that takes a developmental approach. This Integrated Development of English Language and Academic Literacy and Learning (IDEALL) model recognizes that all students need to develop new or more sophisticated academic skills for the new environment and that the most…

TRANSITION is so named because it allows children to make a gradual passage from kindergarten into first grade. One school year is spent between these two grades in a success-oriented atmosphere. (Author)

This article describes the transition program at Goodyear Junior High in Akron, Ohio. Beginning in the spring, it helps reduce the adjustment anxiety of sixth graders and their parents by familiarizing them with the school and preparing them for the junior high school experience. Some evaluative feedback is cited. (SJL)