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Frisbie, Dick, Ed.; Slater, Kenneth, Ed. – 1979
The Family Support Project in Lansing, Michigan, provides a variety of family support services to help maintain severely mentally and severely multiply impaired children in their own communities, and whenever possible, in their own homes. Services offered include case management, family therapy, respite services, special needs purchases,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Family Programs, Program Descriptions
Download full textBillingsley, Felix; And Others – 1984
The booklet describes studies undertaken by the Washington Research Organization (UWRO) to examine generalization processes with severely handicapped students. Section one provides background information on the UWRO, including UWRO's advisory committee, communication with other institutes for research in education of the severely handicapped, and…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Models
Peer reviewedFriedlander, Bernard Z.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Children, Deaf Blind, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Tawney, James W. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1974
Dr. James Tawney is developing a coordinated research program model and curriculum development project to meet the needs of the severely developmentally retarded. (DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Day Care Centers, Exceptional Child Education, Intervention
Baken, Joan Wald; And Others – 1977
Discussed are educational guidelines and techniques for severely multiply handicapped children. Initial sections review characteristics and appropriate educational goals for the population. General teaching approaches are described, and specific suggestions are given for the followinq areas (subtopics in parentheses): positioning (effects of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLetts, R. M.; Hobson, Douglas A. – Pediatrics, 1975
A multidisciplinary team at a hospital special devices clinic designed multiple use wheelchair and car seats with unique tabletop or arm enclosures for two educable mentally retarded brothers (11 and 14-years-old) afflicted with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a purine metabolic disorder characterized by an insatiable urge for self-mutilation. (LH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Equipment, Exceptional Child Services
Peer reviewedBateman, Steven – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Gutterman, June K.; And Others – 1981
This facilitator's guide is one of three documents recommended for use in the development of a local level linkage system for the referral of severely handicapped students from education to rehabilitation. Introductory materials include a discussion of right versus entitlement and overview of the facilitator's role. The first section provides a…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Prevocational Education
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Washington, DC. – 1979
The report presents information based on a 1978 survey on programs in 46 state education agencies for severely and profoundly handicapped (SPH) individuals. The principal section of the report discusses summary data on state consultants responsible for services to SPH students, definitions, percentage of consultant time spent on programs, child…
Descriptors: Consultants, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. for Exceptional Children. – 1978
The manual discusses legal and procedural guidelines established by North Carolina regarding educational services for severely handicapped students. Covered in separate sections are the following topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): definition; placement procedures (referral, screening, school-based committee, assessment, placement, and exit…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Individualized Programs
Fischer, Margaret – 1979
The study evaluated the effectiveness of an electric vibrator on the deceleration and/or extinction of 10 self abusive and aberrant behaviors in a profoundly retarded, nonambulatory 25 year old female who could not hear, see, or speak. At the end of 41 twenty minute sessions, seven of the target behaviors approached extinction and three were…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities
Flack, Beth; And Others – 1980
The paper describes a special education staff's problems with teaching a severely handicapped institutionalized population and reports on observations of seven multiply handicapped (blind-mentally retarded) students. The students' feeding skills performance in the institution and the school was compared in such terms as diet, utensil use, special…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Contingency Management, Environmental Influences
Wehman, Paul, Ed.; Hill, Mark, Ed. – 1980
The document presents 12 papers on the vocational training and placement of severely disabled persons based partly on Project Employability, which involves the placement and on the job training of the severely disabled. Titles and authors include: "Placement of Severely Disabled Individuals into Competitive Employment--A Two Year Progress…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Potential, Job Placement, Mental Retardation
Lohmeier, Barbara; And Others – 1980
The report describes the goals and achievements of a project to develop a competency based curriculum for paraprofessionals serving severely, profoundly, and multiply handicapped persons. The development of curriculum modules in health care, special education, communication, and recreation is discussed, and field testing procedures with employees…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Inservice Education, Institutional Personnel, Multiple Disabilities
Guess, Doug; And Others – 1978
The authors examine existing procedures and instruments used to assess the motor and perceptual/motor skills of severely/multiply handicapped infants and young children. Following an introductory section is a discussion of the rationale for the sequencing of assessment items and the limitations of the instruments for yielding specific quantitative…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research, Multiple Disabilities
