An innovative new evaluation unit in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is detailed. This unit, the Office of Service Delivery Assessment (SDA), regularly briefs the Secretary on the services delivered to clients at the local level. The process of the SDA is described and conclusions are offered. (Author/GK)

The findings of this study suggest that fathers' parenting learning interests lie on an instrumental-expressive continuum and a general preference for receiving parenting education via media delivery systems is indicated. (Author)

An information base on interagency collaboration which can be used to direct the development of training strategies for persons involved in the design or operation of interagency endeavors is described with particular reference to P.L. 941-42, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (Author/SB)

The fact that there are still unserved and underserved handicapped children is pointed out, reasons for inadequate services are considered, and a collaborative approach to service delivery as mandated by the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) is suggested. (SB)

With special reference to Alabama schools, the authors review the development of the mainstreaming concept and consider some of the attitudinal, definitional, organizational, and regulatory problems inhibiting this reintegration of regular and special education. (SJL)

P.L. 95-602, the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978, reflects an attempt to coordinate, integrate, and consolidate certain programs across all disability lines while recognizing the uniqueness of certain groups, such as the developmentally disabled. (Author)

The paper raises issues in special education, discusses the historical background of those issues, views special education as a service delivery system, and focuses on the professionalization of special education. The impact of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, is emphasized. (CL)

Teacher centers should view the enactment of role and assignment of specific in-service education programs as their overall purpose and as the focal point of all center activity. (Author)

An examination of the mandated acceptance of developmentally disabled individuals as rehabilitation clients is presented. Appropriate services are detailed in three stages: special education focus, community integration focus, and rehabilitation counseling focus. The stages have been proven effective in other similar disabilities. (Author/PHR)

The author compares and analyzes American and Taiwanese maternity care systems, discussing the history of midwifery in Taiwan; the process by which a midwife establishes her practice; and her role in childbirth, abortion, adoption, and other services. (Author/DS)

The planning and development of an information booklet on X-rays for the use of patient education is described. (JD)

Examines the concept and application of prevention programs in the child welfare services, and provides a framework for child welfare services based on the public health model of prevention, which focuses on helping program administrators identify and plan services and programs for target populations at different stages in their development. (CM)

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Discusses the top 10 trends in training: increased skill requirements, a better educated work force, corporate restructuring, changes in training departments, revolutionized delivery systems, advanced technology, increased focus on performance improvement, proliferation of integrated high-performance systems, transformation to learning…

Describes interactive television as a distance learning delivery method. Addresses concerns of colleges of business, departments, and business faculty about using this medium. (SK)