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Download full textHalle, James W.; And Others – 1991
This manual describes a physical fitness program for students with moderate and severe disabilities, which has as additional goals integration with nondisabled peers and improved attitudes of nondisabled peers toward students with disabilities. The first section presents background information, describes the program's development, and presents the…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities
Springfield, H. Lynn – 1991
This paper identifies those factors and processes critical to promoting interagency collaboration between school and community agencies represented on the Individual Transition Teams (ITT) of students with severe disabilities. The ITT's goal is to assist the student in obtaining the most satisfactory transition possible into meaningful work and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Coordination, Community Organizations, Cooperative Planning
McDonnell, John J.; And Others – 1983
Parental projections of service needs and their ranking of features they perceived as important in vocational and residential programs for their handicapped son/daughter were assessed through a written questionnaire. A total of 163 questionnaires were completed and returned by parents of high school students with moderate and severe handicaps. The…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Ancillary School Services, Community Services, Education Work Relationship
Halloran, William; And Others – 1986
Survey responses of 46 state directors of special education regarding the problems faced by severely handicapped students who exit public schools but require adult services indicated that severe discrepancies exist in most states between the number of people needing adult services and the capacity of such service systems to meet these needs.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Programs, Community Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
PRISE Reporter, 1982
The "PRISE Reporter" newsletter is issued six times a school year, generally from November through May. This collection of 18 issues examines the following special education topics: "Chronological Age in the Design of Educational Programs for Severely and Profoundly Impaired Students" (L. A. Larsen and L. B. Jackson);…
Descriptors: Age, Court Litigation, Deaf Interpreting, Disabilities
Downing, June – 1987
This study investigated the quality of programming for students (aged 3-20) with severe multiple disabilities. The study sought to determine whether physical disabilities that prevent voluntary movement are a discriminating factor affecting whether active or passive programming is provided. The Individualized Education Programs of 35 students with…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Diagnostic Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
Wilcox, Barbara; And Others – 1987
The text provides information to secondary school principals to assist them in designing and maintaining effective educational programs for severely handicapped high school students, including those who are labeled moderately or severely retarded, multiply handicapped, or autistic. A model of effective program characteristics is followed by a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Check Lists, Classroom Environment, Delivery Systems
Romer, Lyle T.; And Others – 1987
This compilation brings together various conference papers and a working group report on the topic of residential services for people with deaf-blindness and other profound disabilities. The title paper by Lyle T. Romer describes three measures for evaluating residential programs: capacity, progress, and lifestyle. Valued outcomes of a residential…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Deaf Blind, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Clark, Florence; And Others – 1988
A needs assessment determined the need for independent living skills for high school students with severe disabilities, as perceived by the students (n=45), their parents (n=38) and their teachers (n=7). Results revealed that the students believed that their lives were steadily improving, that they were more satisfied than dissatisfied with the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, High School Students, High Schools, Interpersonal Competence
Barringer, Mary-Dean, Ed. – Speciality, 1985
The first issue of a quarterly publication addresses a variety of issues in the education of severely impaired students. Articles, contributed by educators and support staff, examine the following topics: affective education: the hidden curriculum; the importance of touch and activities for staff and students; affective education activities…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Creative Art, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
McCormack, James E.; And Others – 1977
Intended for teachers and others providing services for moderately and severely physically and/or mentally handicapped children and young adults, the manual presents strategies, procedures, and task analyses for training in daily living skills. Section I provides an overview of tactics for teaching activities of daily living (ADL) skills,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Children, Daily Living Skills
Barta, Roberta Fair – 1981
A study was conducted to determine (1) the entry level skills that are required for admission to selected North Dakota programs for the vocational education of the severely handicapped; and (2) the articulation, if any, between nationwide prevocational training programs' exit requirements and the North Dakota programs' entry requirements. Using a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adolescents, Adults, Articulation (Education)
Peak, Orel; And Others – 1979
The 17 papers were originally presented at a 1977 series of workshops for personnel serving the deaf-blind and severely handicapped and are organized into the following workshop topics: programing and program development, the senses, cognition, communication, and behavior managment. The papers have the following titles and authors: "Education for…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
Miller, Geoffrey Clark – 1979
Project Proud Option of Palmer, Massachusetts, had the following objectives: (1) develop and implement a system for assessing the functioning levels of handicapped students in institutional schools as these functional levels relate to already existing job task outlines and performance objectives; (2) develop new job opportunities within the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Difficulty Level, Educational Diagnosis
Thomas, M. Angele, Ed. – 1976
Presented are 12 author contributed chapters which developed out of an invisible college of leaders concerned with providing services to the severely, profoundly, and multiply handicapped. Stressed throughout the book are such needs as the need to listen to parents, the need for new training programs for teachers of the severely handicapped, the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Conference Reports, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Educational Needs
