This booklet for Wisconsin parents of children with disabilities discusses the processes and functions of special education. It describes steps in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) team process, including: referring a child for special education; evaluating the child; deciding what services are needed and writing the IEP; deciding where…

The Gun Free Schools Act (GFSA) requires states to report information about the implementation of the act annually to the Secretary of Education. This report starts by presenting information on data interpretation and quality. Three sections summarize the 1998-99 data submitted by the states. The first section is a brief summary of the overall…

This document reviews legislative changes in the Social Security Act State Title V programs to improve maternal and child health, including provision of rehabilitative services to children and adolescents eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and describes how state agencies are serving this population. An introductory section explains…

This document comprises the five 1997-1988 issues of a newsletter published to disseminate information and resources to child care providers and administrators. The Fall 1997 issue discusses advocating on behalf of children. It lists five steps to take to speak out for children. The Winter 1997-1998 issue discusses mentoring. Mentoring programs…

The author tells how she approached community agencies to procure existing counseling services and to implement new ones. She also opened channels of communication between various groups (among residents, between housing management and residents, etc.). Retarded high school students became involved in meeting needs of the elderly and an adoptive…

This is a joint statement of the American Nurses Association and the American School Health Association endorsing expansion of the traditional role of school nurses so that they may serve as school nurse practitioners. Such practitioners (upon completion of a course of study outlined in the article) would assume a more direct and responsible…

Pretrial Diversion, the act of taking an accused offender out of the usual criminal court sequence (trial, sentencing, jail) before the trial actually happens, is exemplified by Project Crossroads in Washington, D. C. (Author/JH)

Relates personal, largely unsuccessful, initial attempt at group therapy, with view toward lending support to novice counselors trying similar experiments. (CJ)

Results indicated that counseling is more effective with self referred students than with other referred students. In addition, the findings suggest ways that college counseling services may attempt to implement their goals. (Author)

Of 120 educable mentally retarded (EMR) elementary and middle school students who had been dismissed from special education classes four years previously, 50 were not rereferred for further evaluation and 70 were. Among characteristics that appeared to differentiate the groups were grade level and sex. (CL)

Undergraduates read three different versions of a paragraph on ethical standards of psychologists (reflecting three levels of sexist pronoun usage). Sexist language appeared to influence the students' rating of the attractiveness of careers in psychology for males and females and their willingness to refer male or female friends to psychologists.…

Adolescent counseling presents a number of issues that the secondary-level school psychologist needs to consider. Issues and problems are related to defining the goals of counseling, required versus voluntary referrals, when to refer, and parent involvement. (Author/PN)

Examines the role of the public library in providing outreach services to migrant farm workers, citing experiences of three public library systems in the areas of information and referral, bookmobiles, and funding. Physical and psychological inaccessibility are discussed. Three references are cited. (EJS)