Notes that federal requirement to develop Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) for all infants and toddlers with special needs has major conceptual difficulty stemming from linkage of family service to family assessment. Sees many authorities as advocating parents and professionals as partners in assessing needs and planning services. Questions…

With a national drive in England for the development and restructuring of services encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and multi-agency working, the question remains as to how services should be developed and why it is perceived as so important. This study by Pearl Barnes, who is an Every Child Counts Teacher Leader and a member of the…

The purpose of this study is to provide a profile of youths with hearing loss admitted to substance abuse treatment facilities. Intake data on 4,167 youths (28% female; 3% reporting a hearing loss) collected via the Global Appraisal of Individual Need-I assessment was used for the analyses. Information on demographics, environmental…

This study examined California's efforts to foster preservice preparation of early intervention assistants through a certificate program offered by community colleges, the Community College Personnel Preparation Project. Community colleges enrolled in the project must meet a series of requirements, including infusing early intervention assistant…

We present findings from in-depth interviews with mid-career faculty who describe themselves as "thriving." As we ground ourselves in the theoretical contexts of Erikson's stage of "generativity vs. stagnation" and Dweck's construct of "growth mindsets," we discuss themes that run through their personal narratives and delineate key elements of the…

Discusses the phenomenon of false fire alarms, the deliberate, intentional false reporting of fires, by mentally troubled persons as a primitive kind of help-seeking behavior. Several common themes found by reviewing false alarm cases are presented. Suggests that identifying the intrapsychic dynamics of false alarm reporters could be useful in…

A year-long study was made of questions asked by 18 beginning teachers of their support teachers. The questions were analyzed and categorized in order to rank needs. The findings were then compared to results of a questionnaire approach. Conclusions are presented. (MT)

Identifies some of the factors that require a specialized approach to counseling women, and presents creative approaches to that counseling. (Author/BL)

This paper argues that the individual and personalized approach of pastoral care in schools demands the total involvement of school administration, personnel, curriculum, and programs. Pastoral care is delivered through the various opportunities for contact between the teacher and student on a more informal basis and is in a non-academic setting.…

The author discusses the process of information retrieval in its smallest scale: that is, the retrieval of information from within a single document, as distinct from the retrieval of the document (as a whole) from a library or other collection of materials." (Author/AK)

Proposes that technology is the educational base for job training and that technology should be used in curriculum planning and implementation. (SB)

Photographs illustrating various devices for fostering forms of communality. (JW)

Maslow's hierarchy of human needs is examined and the similarities between those needs and the subject matter traditionally taught in home economics are observed. These needs include physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, self-actualization, cognitive, and aesthetic needs. Subject matter areas include nutrition, housing, clothing,…

The physically disabled author makes a plea that parents consider the quality of life of their handicapped children. She asks that parents remember that handicapped children have normal desires and aspirations. (PHR)