This article describes the Infant-Toddler Care Project in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which was developed to provide child care programs with on-site consultation that emphasizes aspects of quality care for all children and supports the inclusion of infants and toddlers with disabilities. An appended case study illustrates the project's approach…

Describes a project that helps students solve real business problems, share leadership roles, delegate duties, write collaboratively, present orally as a team, and manage conflict as they serve as consultants to small business owners. (RS)

The Competent Learner Model integrates direct instruction and behavior analysis practices to bring teachers to mastery of formulating, delivering, and monitoring effective instructional programing. The model focuses on the knowledge and skilled responding necessary for individuals to become competent learners, and employs a coaching format to…

Consultation on university campus is important adjunct mental health service to individual and small-group counseling. It serves as preventive and early identification resource for emotional-social and educational-vocational problems. Interventions with faculty, staff, and campus organizations are possible with consultation service. Consultation…

Issues are addressed concerning the speech-language assessment, management, and consultancy role of public school speech-language specialists to multicultural clients. Discussed are the reliability, validity, and relevance of assessment data; the replacement of substandard utterances; cooperation with teachers of English-as-a-Second-Language; and…

A three-year project that examined the impact of an inservice program and consultation processes in facilitating the inclusion of students with emotional or behavioral disorders into general education settings in 25 school districts found that immediate implementation of the consultation process was needed for districts to implement learned…

Describes action learning as a potentially powerful peer-based approach to teaching consultation at the college level and offers a case study of its use at Coventry University (England). Explains how action learning supports teaching improvement through reflective practice and peer dialog in group consultations about specific concerns (such as…

This annotated resource guide to instructional consultation at the college level identifies 16 specific resources, organized into those that address consultation in general, sourcebooks on instructional consultation, and effectiveness of instructional consultation. Also listed are periodicals, series, and other references, as well as professional…

Questions concerning school psychology services for children of diverse ethnic groups have related to problem identification, acceptability of interventions, the efficacy of special programs and interventions and the preparation of professionals to deal with multicultural and cross-cultural practice. Reviews models of ethnic validity and examines…

This article provides school-based consultants with an overview of the English language learner (ELL) student population and common programs available to ELL students (such as English-only programs, pull-out English as a second language [ESL], content-based ESL, transitional bilingual programs, maintenance bilingual programs, and two-way or dual…

Introduction: A new paradigm in continuing medical education is characterized by emphasis on physicians' learning in practice. Consistent with this paradigm, our study examined a subset of clinical practice--generalist-specialist consultations--from an educational perspective. Methods: We applied the grounded-theory method with semistructured…

This article addresses the question of whether ecumenical theological education may be a practice of peace. Beginning with the potential of religious belief to reinforce entrenched positions and to end in violence, it advocates instead the transformative practices of witness and risk. These practices have the potential to overcome the impasse…

This article describes the development of behavioral school care consultation services to public schools within a not-for-profit community behavioral health organization. An overview of the process of behavior consultation is presented. A description of the growth of behavioral school consultation services is outlined in regard to (a) the types of…

This paper examines the role of student consultation and participation in the process of improving the physical environment in schools. Although quantitative studies suggest that there are some links between the learning environment and school performance, direct causal relationships between these factors remain unclear. However, as Clark points…

This paper describes the incorporation of online psychological consultation regarding child behavior in an early childhood teacher education program. The authors discuss psychological consultation in terms of current theory and philosophy in early childhood teacher education in general, and in terms of the professional objectives of this specific…