In July 2006, the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee reported on Special Educational Needs. The report expressed concern over the Government's policy on SEN, especially as it relates to inclusion and to the confusion this has created for special schools. In this article I shall attempt to tease out what I believe to be the…

On paper, Mariella Castillo's family makes her likelier than other students to drop out of college. Her mother left school after the fifth grade, and her father has only a middle-school education. Her parents speak little English, and Castillo, who was born in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, spoke her first words in Spanish. Numerous studies…

This article profiles Mike Simmel, a member of the Harlem Wizards professional basketball team and a national spokesman for Epilepsy Awareness. Mike has been diagnosed with epilepsy when he was two-years-old. At age seven, his father gave him a basketball to see if working with the ball would help him overcome his motor skills issues. Mike first…

The Vanderbilt University Center for Science Outreach (CSO) connects university scientists to the K-12 community to enhance and improve science education. The Virtual Scientist program utilizes interactive videoconference (IVC) to facilitate this connection, providing 40-50 sessions per academic year to a national audience. Scientists, defined as…

The monograph introduces a system to help outreach projects of the U.S. Department of Education's Handicapped Children's Early Education Programs (HCEEP) document the impact of their work. Six indicators, identified by outreach project personnel, represent six primary areas of outreach activity. Background information about HCEEP outreach programs…

The report documents progress in 1981-82 toward six objectives of a model preschool outreach center for handicapped children. Activities and accomplishments are discussed for the following six objectives: (1) increase awareness of needs and programs (present at a minimum of 10 state or local meetings); (2) develop, refine, and field test products…

Focus was on the adaptation made by a specific Hispanic elderly population to a federally funded nutrition project. (NQ)

A study of library services to hospitalized patients since 1971 in the greater Providence, Rhode Island, area. (LS)

Reports on references in the ERIC system pertinent to community services and outreach programs. (Author/NHM)

Describes three aspects of the South Carolina State Library efforts to serve the poor. (PF)

An innovative program for senior citizens, available through Wisconsin public libraries, furnishes multi-media kits designed to bring back memories of county fairs, train rides, and other familiar experiences. (JAB)

This description of a program in which public libraries serve as sites for mediation sessions discusses the advantages of mediation over judicial proceedings in resolving disputes in the neighborhood and workplace, the role of the library in this program, and the effects on the library's relationship with the community. (CLB)

Describes Dutchess County Department of Mental Hygiene and New York State Bridge Authority's joint establishment of a suicide prevention telephone on Mid-Hudson Bridge. Telephone, which is directly connected to psychiatric emergency service, was used 30 times in two-year period. Data suggest that most would-be jumpers were ambivalent about dying…

A cooperative effort by the state university and the state education agency to provide teacher training in remote areas makes use of such cost-effective measures as telephone and mail surveys, onsite follow-up interviews, a microteaching module for practicum supervision, and short, intensive courses in remote areas of the state. (Author/CL)

Presents a rationale for family service professionals to communicate through the mass media to improve the functioning of agencies and contribute to the welfare of the community. Offers detailed suggestions for working with the media, i.e., improving relations, acting as a news source, and participating in broadcast interviews. (Author/WAS)