The Deans' Grants awards have required skills and behaviors not traditionally associated with the role of dean. A sample of ten deans acting as Deans Grant project directors was studied to determine their roles and functions and the specific behaviors perceived as supportive of change efforts. Through interviews with the deans and staff, it was…

The authors consider the special education research studies conducted for the Special Education Department of the Dallas Independent School District. The Dallas evaluation model utilized a modification of the CIPP model which delineated four kinds of evaluation information: context (which describes the state of the world before intervention),…

A description is given of three workshops developed to assist school administrators in implementing programs in adapted and developmental physical education for mainstreamed students. The first workshop included information regarding services for the handicapped and approaches to program change in adapted physical education. The curriculum of an…

The design and development of a needs assessment procedure to assist local vocational education administrators in planning a mainstreaming approach for handicapped students in vocational education was the purpose of this study. The methodology involved a review of the literature on the general mainstreaming topic, program planning, needs…

The learning module described focuses specifically on the development of the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for the handicapped child and is for the use of parents and teachers working together. The scope and sequencing of topics is outlined, and the activities and resources involved in the use of the module are described. A critique of the…

The document identifies the legal issues arising from the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and indicates how the courts are handling these issues. Annotations on court cases are arranged in major categories: free appropriate public education, placement in the least…

The document provides a guide to implementing a 2 day workshop designed to enhance administrators' and classroom teachers' awareness and understanding of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and the least restrictive environment (LRE) concept and to improve attitudes regarding the education of handicapped students in…

Intended for preservice regular education teachers, the modules in Series I are intended to supply basic information about exceptional and normal children, how they learn and how their performance may be assessed in the classroom. Following a series overview are sections which address: characteristics of normal and exceptional children, classroom…

This paper presents the philosophy, goals and curriculum of the San Jose University Demonstration Preschool Project and presents preliminary data on the integration of mild to moderately handicapped preschool children into the program. The program, which enrolls 6 handicapped children and 14 non-handicapped children, is based on the developmental…

Five papers from a 1979 conference designed to bring practitioners' results of current research and development in special education are presented. The first paper describes the importance of the prepared environment for mainstreaming handicapped children and reviews four areas of consideration: orientation, adaptation, boundaries, and design of…

The report includes three papers on the exceptional bilingual child and summaries of 22 bilingual/bicultural special education federally funded training programs. The first paper "Bilingual Special Education Report" by P. Landurand describes Massachusetts' Bilingual Special Education Project (BISEP) which has cooperated with regional education…

This student manual, part of the Family and Community Health Through Caregiving program, focuses on the special needs of teenagers with birth defects. Topics include: (1) the effect of informal contacts with the community, neighbors, and school age peers on the special needs adolescent; (2) society's attempts to meet these needs; (3) problems of…

This final report contains information on the school-based portion of the Saskatoon Region Project, a program designed to develop effective services for educationally handicapped children in rural areas around Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada). Chapters of the report provide descriptions of early initiatives that led to the project's conception,…

Designed for use by California educators responsible for reading instruction, this booklet (1) provides the basis for development of criteria for materials selection, (2) serves as a resource for inservice training, (3) furnishes guidance for developing reading curricula, and (4) establishes guidelines for aiding program and personnel evaluation.…

The paper analyzes research on the self concept of differentially placed educable mentally retarded (EMR) students and hypothesizes covarying factors which may suggest to educators variables to be taken into account in placement decisions. Considered are such factors as IQ, reading achievement, and being the only retarded child mainstreamed into a…