Amendments to the Rehabilitation Act are recommended to remedy the negligent hiring practices of some vocational rehabilitation agencies that further disable deaf clients by hiring personnel who lack the skills to work effectively with deaf and multiply handicapped people. (Author/DB)

Discusses human resources maximization as a means for expanding employee selection criteria to include applicants' strengths and potential for growth, not just their history, then working to develop employees potential. Testing learning style as a means for recognizing potential and the relationship between testing and training are discussed. (KRN)

This rejoinder to comments on the authors' article (EC 623 392) on a renewed emphasis on parent education in early intervention discusses the nature of parent education, the intended outcomes of parent education, professional training needs, and a research agenda. (DB)

With a national shortage of special education personnel, including assessment personnel (Caranikas-Walker; Shapley, Cordeau, 2006; Karr, 2005), rural communities face serious challenges in retaining and recruiting highly qualified special education staff due to limited access to university training programs (Hausman & Hausman, 2003; Knapczyk,…

This document contains oral and written testimony by United States Senators, government administrators, and employee representatives on a proposal to establish leave sharing for federal employees. The leave sharing concept could be implemented on a personal basis, with any employee donating sick or annual leave to another employee with a long-term…

An early childhood educator at a 360-bed community general hospital implemented a licensed on-site child care program for children between 6 weeks and 10 years of age in order to improve employee recruitment and retention by assisting employees with appropriate child care arrangements. A parent questionnaire was used to assess the degree to which…

This report is the result of two years of research by the Task Force on New Professionals of the American College Personnel Association. The Task Force was charged with developing procedures for the greater input and involvement of new professionals in the activities of the national professional associations in the area of college student…

This study of the personnel requirements and hiring patterns of academic libraries draws on data collected from academic library position announcements issued nationwide during the fourth quarter of 1980. Data on 224 announcements were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, and the resulting statistics are interpreted as a…

The problems of acquisition, bibliographic control, and accessibility to official documents, which are more pronounced in developing than developed countries, are reflected by the experience of the University of Zambia library. The library is concerned not only with Zambian official documents, but also with those of other Anglophone Sub-Saharan…

A survey was conducted of government agencies in order to examine the capacity of the U. S. Government to produce or obtain by contract the research needed to manage relations with the Soviet Union. Four foreign affairs agencies foresee increasing difficulties through the 1980s in recruiting the desired calibre of Soviet language and research…

THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED AT THE REQUEST OF REPRESENTATIVES OF VARIOUS HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS TO DETERMINE THE PRESENT AND FUTURE EMPLOYMENT NEEDS IN 10 OCCUPATIONS IN WHICH THERE MIGHT BE A SHORTAGE OF MANPOWER AND IN WHICH PERSONS COULD BE TRAINED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE AREA REDEVELOPMENT AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACTS. A…

The main objectives of this meeting held in Brazzaville, People's Republic of Congo from July 5 to 10, 1976 were to examine recent efforts made by African Member States to plan and develop their national information systems (NATIS), and make recommendations for the creation of networks of documentation and library services adapted to the rapidly…

This report focuses on two programs launched by the U. S. Office of Education (USOE) for personnel development in vocational education. The two programs (section 552, Leadership Development Awards and section 553, State Systems for Personnel Development), created under part F of the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA), are examined in 11…