Fulfilling adult needs and helping them adjust to new life circumstances will require accessible, even convenient, resources for stimulating lifelong learning, adjustment to change, and personal development. Opportunities for adult education, career planning and assessment, and counseling services head the list of needed resources. (Author)

Veterinary education must re-establish its teaching objectives. Students need practical knowledge in areas such as business management, communications, marketing, public relations, facility management, and personnel management. Industry must also meet its obligations to continue to provide safe, dependable products that fill a practice need. (MLW)

Discusses the needs of handicapped college students for special support services and qualifications for persons filling that role. Student personnel training programs should stress understanding between handicapped and nonhandicapped students. Handicapped students should be encouraged to apply for such programs. (JAC)

Described are four days of in-service education for those involved with developing and implementing the California Master Plan for Special Education, followed by 14 tips for successful planning for master plan implementation. (KC)

A case study of the University of Chicago Medical Center highlights the tensions, strains, and resistances that inhibit the development of an urban health care system. It raises questions about the role of the research and teaching hospital in regional health care planning, especially as suburban facilities are drawing away patients. (Author/LBH)

This cooperative report of seven associations of special educators and related professionals provides guidelines for using a paraprofessional service delivery model in providing speech language services in educational settings. It identifies three levels of paraprofessionals, recommends requirements for each level, and addresses activities outside…

To design effective academic health centers for the future, medical leaders must define the competencies needed by tomorrow's physicians, including the ability to manage the uncertainty associated with creating clinical models and the uncertainty associated with managing care delivery. Currently, focus is on the former, but there is increasing…

Discusses some of the recent changes to client interventions and counselor training in the Canadian government's delivery of employment counseling services. Describes the changing needs in the client group, the group assessment program, the counseling curriculum, and computer-assisted systems for career and employment counseling delivery. (RJM)

Among 211 rural Kentucky schools surveyed, full inclusion of students with disabilities was practiced in only 9 schools, whereas approximately 80% had adopted partial inclusion (mainstreaming) to various degrees. Most respondents reported lack of teacher training, lack of special instructional materials and special equipment in the regular…

Outlines the Follet Report, the United Kingdom's Electronic Libraries Programme, and the Focused Investigation of Document Delivery project, and describes document delivery research projects in the areas of resource sharing, network communication, scanning, and electronic delivery systems. Suggests that librarians reassess their roles, and calls…

Article draws on ecological-mediational model for school-based mental health services linking factors in school environment to children's mental health and academic achievement. Mental health services delivery model that incorporates school social workers as resources to teachers, families, and children is discussed as an approach to promote and…

A study investigated the causes, educational continuity, and parental perceptions associated with 19 students with multiple disabilities transitioning from school to hospital. Sixty-one percent of hospitalizations were for emergencies and only 1 in 46 hospitalizations had a transition plan to deliver educational services while students were absent…

The evolution of a school-linked service integration model that is geared to school restructuring processes is described, and systemic restructuring components are discussed. Information on the inclusion of all students with disabilities in the model is provided. A case study is presented of a first grader with emotional disturbances, who, after…

Florida State University has implemented a financial aid delivery system that uses electronic fund transfer and an administrative voice message system to automatically notify the student of all financial aid transfers and provide detailed information on transactions. The system has streamlined the delivery process, and user response has been…

Audiographics is a low-cost delivery system for distance learning using a telecommunications link between computers and an audioconferencing medium. A study of the interactions between teachers and 10- to 12-year-old students in Western Australia indicated that, although audiographics can support interactions of many forms, teachers used a limited…