The need for a Learning Facilitation Team is described which cooperatively works to find solutions for the problems presented by specific students. The team is also charged with the responsibility of encouraging total staff involvement to build a total school plan for helping students. (Author)

This article describes the origins and symptoms of staff burn-out in child care jobs, and offers ten suggestions to help combat such burn-out. (CM)

Describes a program of alternative care for disturbed children which is a joint project of a psychiatric treatment center and a child welfare agency. (BR)

Summarizes the nature of service delivery systems in non-metropolitan communities and identifies four community/delivery system types: small city, small town, rural community, and reservation community. Identifies areas warranting further study, e.g., the reservation community, the informal functioning of helping systems, and the coordination of…

The counseling and consultation component of Duke University's Talent Identification Program Summer Residential Program was developed to address the unique psychosocial and emotional needs of gifted adolescents. Focus is on counseling interventions; involvement of residential, academic, and administrative staff; and outreach workshops. (CB)

Data are synthesized from four qualitative studies of teacher work stress. One factor, student discipline, is used to illustrate the problem of teacher stress. The data suggests the importance of understanding stress as a powerful process affecting individual and organizational behavior. (MD)

In diagnosis and treatment of auditory processing disorders, roles of the following professionals on interdisciplinary teams are examined: classroom teacher, reading teacher, speech-language pathologist, psychologist, parent, and audiologist. (CL)

Describes the developing role of paraprofessionals in special education and other educational settings. Suggests that the paraprofessional role should be dynamic and expanding, limited only by the competence and motivation of the paraprofessional. (CJM)

This article tells how teachers in the Denver (Colorado) Public Schools are trained in a district-wide computer literacy program. The program concentrates on counteracting teachers' fear of the machines by giving them hands-on practice. Program staffing and organization are described. (PP)

No silver bullets for improving achievement for all students exist. However, anyone whose paycheck comes from a school district is ultimately responsible for these students. "Leading From the Middle: Mid-Level District Staff and Instructional Improvement," the first in a series of reports drawn from a larger, qualitative study of district/school…

Partnerships between education and business have proven to be an effective means for preparing young people with disabilities for positive postschool outcomes. Employers, however, are often inundated by requests to participate, causing confusion and ultimately hampering relationships between the two parties. This issue brief discusses how…

Despite growth in the scope and importance of the college or university chief development officer's role, it remains relatively unexamined and the subject of differing perceptions. This report reviews the history and current status of the development function. Major authors on the subject are reviewed and placed into four "schools of…

Program modifications guided by the emerging insights into developmental and experiential factors in children's lives seem even more urgent today, since political, economic and technical issues tend to be given major emphasis, with the needs of the children themselves all to frequently treated as an after-thought. (Author)

Article is based on remarks made at the 1969 Joint California AHPER and Southwest District AAHPER Convention in Sacramento.

An attitude scale on sexuality and the handicapped was developed and field tested on 232 people in contact with mentally retarded persons. The results indicate that the scale was sensitive to differences in attitudes within and between groups and that sexuality training was effective in producing attitude change. (Author/SEW)