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Peer reviewedEichinger, Joanne; Woltman, Sheila – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
This article reports the experiences of one school district as it moved from serving students with severe disabilities in segregated programs to a full inclusion model. Year one focused on getting started, planning, and beginning integration efforts and year two on implementation of a structured peer integration program. Applicability of the full…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming, Models, Multiple Disabilities
Peer reviewedBooth, Tim; And Others – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1991
Evaluation of effects of moving mentally disabled individuals from a British National Health Service hospital into community group homes found much overlap between the institutions' caring routines and practices with the community hostel setting, providing only slightly more opportunities for personal choice, privacy, personalization, integration,…
Descriptors: Adults, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Foreign Countries, Group Homes
Download full textGordon, Elizabeth – 1990
This report outlines emerging paradigms of service for mentally retarded adults emerging from a nationwide search for innovative programs and practices. It was prompted by the consistent finding of a Pennsylvania longitudinal study that mentally retarded school completers tend to live indefinitely with parents or guardians. The study found the…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adults, Community Programs, Delivery Systems
Peer reviewedCummins, Robert A.; And Others – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1990
This follow-up study examined the daily routines and activities of 85 young adults with severe/profound mental retardation 4 years after moving to community residential units from an institutional setting in Melbourne, Australia. A more normalized lifestyle, increased daily variation, more community interaction, and greater parental involvement…
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, Group Homes
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Special Education Programs. – 1991
This guide offers specific recommendations to Texas school districts concerning the implementation of least restrictive environment (LRE) requirements for students with disabilities. Suggestions are grouped according to six issues recommended for consideration in the decision making process: These are: (1) the primacy of the individual student's…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Compliance (Legal), Decision Making, Delivery Systems
Lewis, Preston; Kleinert, Harold L. – 1992
This final report describes a 5-year Kentucky project to improve integrated educational services and life quality of children and youth with severe disabilities, including students with deaf-blindness. Project objectives focus on the identification and removal of barriers to effective integrated programs; the provision of educational services on…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Accountability, Agency Cooperation, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities)
