Offers a critical response to the British Teacher Training Agency's two consultation documents on special-educational-needs-specialist teachers. The critique addresses the proposed standards, the definition of a specialist teacher, the value of standards, effective services, core standards, the deficit model of specialist standards, and delivery…

In 1994, a multiagency service team, consisting of state and federal agencies, colleges, private consultants, and nonprofit organizations, was formed to coordinate delivery of technical assistance services to small manufacturers in Maine's wood products industry. Results were generally positive but showed the need to carefully match assistance…

Addresses issues in special education of incarcerated youth with disabilities including: (1) prevalence rates of disabilities among juvenile-delinquent populations; (2) problems in providing special-education services to incarcerated youth; (3) developments in case law concerning delivery of special education to this population; and (4)…

This qualitative study examined two classrooms that used a coteaching approach to provide services to students who were deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing. It used extensive observations and interviews with teachers, students, parents, and administrators. Results support coteaching's effectiveness as a service-delivery model. Seven themes about…

This literature review begins with a description of the deaf community, their language and culture; then describes communication patterns and parenting issues in deaf-parented families; examines the role of the hearing child in a deaf family and how that affects their functioning in the hearing world; and finally discusses considerations and…

Reviews assistive technology as it relates to postsecondary students with learning disabilities by (1) tracing its development, (2) identifying models of assistive technology service delivery and specific services, (3) describing specific assistive technologies, and (4) reviewing research on the effectiveness of assistive technology with…

Screens penal, social services, and special education agencies in one region to determine the need for mental health services among adolescents. Determines that the need for mental health care greatly outstrips the supply. Discusses the effectiveness of treatment for the problems of these youth and a possible structure for service delivery.…

Analysis of data from the 1994/95 Disability Supplements of the National Health Interview Survey found adults with mental retardation who have received vocational services differed from others with disabilities in that they have a different population profile, receive different types of services, experience similar levels of satisfaction, and have…

Notes that mental health services have been a weak link in Head Start. Addresses the need to enhance mental health services by describing a successful, innovative university-Head Start partnership. Describes the model and provides advice for Head Start programs to expand and enhance their mental health services. (SD)

Nurse practitioner students using distance education (n=86) indicated a preference for self-direction, concrete examples, and small-group discussion. Print was their most preferred and audiotapes their least preferred format. Convenience, self-direction, and timing were more important than delivery method or learning style. Preferred order of…

This article discusses implications of the movement toward managed health care models for long-term health care services for people with disabilities, especially people with developmental disabilities. It notes possible advantages of managed care but raises issues concerning consumer choice, management and financial capacity of managed care…

This article describes principles on which teachers can develop or extend plans for including students with disabilities, through use of additions to a teacher's repertoire that complement student needs and through agreements that expand educational opportunities offered by specialized services staff. (DB)

New Zealand is attempting to introduce a "seamless" system of qualifications for senior secondary school students delivered through modules (learning units) and linked to higher education qualifications. This paper studies how one school's change to a modular curriculum delivery system affected staff and students. Staff perceptions…

During the early 1970s, over 150 school districts and several states contracted with private companies to deliver instruction, and the Nixon Administration initiated a vast privatization field experiment in Texarkana. None of these performance contracting experiments significantly improved instruction. Instead, they raised issues of staffing,…

Discussion of the influence of the World Wide Web on student financial aid considers: waves of technology change, direct access to the consumer offered by the Web, business uses of the Web, student demand for on-line services, paradigm shifts in financial aid, and the constancy of change. Concludes that Web technology will significantly alter the…