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Wisconsin State Dept. of Health and Social Services, Madison. – 1984
This document is a report evaluating the Community Options Program (COP) operated in Wisconsin in 1982 and 1983. The report states that the program is designed to reduce the institutionalization of disabled persons by supporting these persons in the community, thereby decreasing expenditures for long term support and slowing the demand for nursing…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Cost Effectiveness, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Download full textMorris, Donald R. – 1986
The Roving Leaders Center, one of the Dade County (Florida) Public Schools' Educational Alternative Outreach Programs, is designed as a last resort beyond the opportunity schools. Although it originally involved counselors who visited the schools, it now consists of a classroom, recreation room, offices, and reception area. It is staffed by a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Institutionalized Persons, Nontraditional Education, Nontraditional Students
Cullari, Salvatore S.; Redmon, William K. – 1984
In order to determine what support services may prevent or delay institutionalization of developmentally disabled (DD) children, 128 families with DD children under age 5 and living at home were interviewed concerning currently received and recommended support services. In addition, 52 families with institutionalized DD children (of all ages)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Community Services, Decision Making, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Tobias, Robert; And Others – 1984
During 1983-84, the Public Law 89-313 program served 2,053 students who were formerly educated in State-operated or State-supported schools through the following components and subcomponents: the Regional Services Instructional Support Unit; Citywide Services, consisting of Instructional Supplies and Equipment and Hearing Education Services; and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Career Education, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBall, Thomas S. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Body Image, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSwartz, Jon D. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
The author responding to criticism of an earlier article attempts to clarify his previous remarks on the reliability and validity of measures of body image in mentally handicapped persons. (LC)
Descriptors: Body Image, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedShane, Howard – Mental Retardation, 1974
A program to teach the techniques of behavior modification to attendants working with severely and profoundly retarded institutionalized residents has been developed and tested. (Author)
Descriptors: Attendants, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Games
Peer reviewedSamaras, Mary Stenning; Ball, Thomas S. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedBrody, J. F.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Exceptional Child Research, Followup Studies, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedAshford, Donnell C.; Baumeister, Alfred A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Presents a series of these experiments which examined cue function in trigram verbal discrimination learning by retarded subjects. The two variables of chief interest were: (1) trigram meaningfulness, and (2) reinforcement history. (Author/LLK)
Descriptors: Adults, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedBateman, Steven – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedBogen, Dennis; Aanes, David – Mental Retardation, 1975
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Daily Living Skills
Cleland, Charles C.; Swartz, Jon D. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Portions of this paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (92nd, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1968).
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Job Satisfaction, Mental Retardation
Gerjuoy, Irma R.; Alvarez, Jose M. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cluster Grouping, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Abelson, Robert B.; Payne, Dan – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Attendants, Behavior Patterns, Communication Skills, Data Collection
