New York state's regulations regarding education of handicapped children are presented, as amended March 26, 1982. Among the topics addressed are Board of Education responsibilities; Committee on the Handicapped; procedures for referral, evaluation, individualized education program development, placement, and review; procedural due process;…

The report details the description, analysis, and understanding phase of a study to provide local and state educational planners with information that would enable them to compare and evaluate alternative forms of inter-school district cooperation as a means of providing rural students with access to quality vocational education. Chapter I…

An ongoing corrective action framework for the Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) is presented. Attention is directed to the formal management structure in OSFA and current initiatives to improve management, and the placement of the corrective action process in the organizational hierarchy. Four formal mechanisms needed to implement the…

Paul Hurder's model of the service delivery process (plus an organization variable) was used to examine factors which influenced effectiveness of special education resource teachers in small, rural elementary schools serving 250 or less English-speaking students in Quebec. Five resource teachers and 72 teachers they served rated each other in…

This book presents 17 papers from a 1982 national multidisciplinary conference on services for behaviorally disordered adolescents. The following papers are included: "Programming for Youth in Secondary Schools and the Community," (W. Van Til); "Who's Crazy? II" (C. Michael Nelson); "Correlates of Successful Adaptive Behavior: Comparative Studies…

In January of 1982, the Hennepin County Community Services Department began implementing a day care voucher system which allowed day care clients to place their children in any licensed day care home or center that was willing to contract with Hennepin County. In October of the same year, Hennepin County was awarded a grant by the Department of…

Knowledge management in organizations, the learning objects paradigm, the advent of a new web generation, and the "Semantic Web" are major actual trends that reveal a potential for a renewed distance learning pedagogy. First and foremost is the use of educational modelling languages and instructional engineering methods to help decide…

This document contains the appendices for the final report of the evaluation of overall effectiveness of the Project Head Start Training and Technical Assistance Programs. Included are a detailed matrix showing which questions from the various interview guides and instruments were used in analyzing data; copies of the interview guides used with…

Provided is the final report of the Arkansas Child Abuse and Neglect Demonstration Project, a service delivery model based on the use of volunteer personnel to provide services directly to families with child abuse problems. It is noted that the project was carried out by SCAN (Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect), a non-profit voluntary agency.…

An extensive opinion survey and feasibility study was undertaken to determine whether student and adult residents of Cameron, Clearfield, and Elk counties, Pennsylvania felt a need for a community college "without walls" to serve the area. The college without walls involves using existing educational facilities in local areas without…

This document contains summaries of thirty-two research projects supported by the National Center for Health Services Research (NCHSR) under authority of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. (Focus of these research projects is to describe, explain, and predict the performance of more than 200 EMS systems being established under Title…

Proceedings of a 1975 conference on child care and the working woman for representatives from national women's organizations, child advocacy groups, labor unions, religious and consumer associations, and private individuals are contained in this report along with a summary of the 1975 report of the subcommittee on social services and welfare and…

A collection of six papers, this monograph illustrates how early childhood personnel can work together to eliminate overlap in services, keep communication open, and assist each other in providing appropriate, quality services to young handicapped children residing in rural areas. Mary T. Morse ("Interagency Coordination: An Overview") designates…

The past 22 years of research on the underutilization of mental health services by Mexican Americans are critically analyzed from conceptual and technical perspectives. While basic assertions of previous investigators that underutilization exists are correct, research concepts and methods used have been inadequate in relation to the issue's…

This report is a response to a congressional mandate to study racial and ethnic discrimination in federally-assisted programs for older persons. The two-phase study includes a case study analysis of selected cities to assess whether minorities are employed in federal programs for older persons and the extent to which older minorities receive…