Dona Ana Mental Health Services (DAMHS) in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has completed a five year demonstration project intended "to explore the effectiveness of a special method of selecting, assigning, training, and giving consultation to nonprofessional mental health workers as they and the community develop special mental health services." These…

Old style and new style mental hospitals are criticized for not dealing directly with a person's inability to live within his community and relate effectively with significant people. The comprehensive mental health programs, which arose in reaction to the deficits of previous facilities and treatment, are viewed as frequently following a similar,…

Divided into two major parts, this report summarizes the findings, recommendations, and conclusions of the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council's analysis of the current function and potential capacity of congressionally appointed federal agencies relative to providing emergency medical care services. More specifically, the…

The Utah project was funded in June, 1970, and refunded from June, 1972 to June 1973, to provide Technical Assistance to educators in sparsely settled rural areas of the State. Technical assistance includes information, consultative and program development services. Three full-time Field Agents are based in Regional Cooperative Service Centers and…

A training effort to upgrade the competencies of classroom teachers in program evaluation at the local school level was undertaken by the Division of Research and Development of the Cleveland Public Schools during the Spring of 1971. The model for this training effort was the Evaluation Liaison Teacher Plan, which provided for assignment of an…

Teacher training and professional responsibilities in special education are the topics of nine conference papers. Educational trends and needs are identified in three papers on the future of teacher preparation programs, new directions in curriculum in relation to black and other minority students in teacher training programs, and the black…

Methods and procedures which should be used by an Advanced Institutional Development Program grantee college in selecting an assisting agency or a consulting firm to provide assistance in the areas of academic program and administrative capacity improvement are recommended and include: (1) the college should devote considerable time and thought to…

Evaluates the Portage Guide to Early Education, making recommendations for its future development. Reviews outcome studies that provide evidence of developmental acceleration for mildly delayed children. Argues that a wider range of dependent variables must be considered to accurately assess Portage's impact on both child and family. (JD)

Examines the Decoding Skills Test (DST), a criterion referenced, diagnostic instrument designed to identify deficiencies in word decoding. (JC)

Psychological consultation in school has often emphasized intervention with an individual consultee who then deals with the client. Argues that change is facilitated when the wider system which influences and is influenced by the student is considered. Interventions are then delivered in consulting sessions where school officials and/or family…

Investigated the effectiveness of a specific approach to school-based consultation training that emphasized didactic methods, simulation exercises, and videotape analyses. Examined the effect of instructor feedback on trainees' acquisition of consultation skills. Found the training led to increased acquisition of consultation skills, but addition…

Reports on a study that investigated the changes in roles and activities of reading specialists in an in-class program as compared to the pull-out program they had previously run. (FL)

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) carried out an evaluation of a pilot/programme that was introduced in 2004 to help raise the achievement of bilingual learners in primary schools. Within participating authorities, pilot consultants were appointed and were managed by the Primary National Strategy managers and the Ethnic…

This paper examines the development and implementation of peer-review-based teacher evaluation programs representing the vanguard of a paradigmatic shift occurring within teachers unions. It explores how teachers and their local unions reconcile competing criteria for legitimacy within the institutions of teacher unionism and professionalism by…

Evidence suggests the value of a pupil services practitioner in a school, and indicates that although such practitioners were prepared informally and relatively briefly, their effects are the same as those who engage in full, formal preparation programs. (Author)