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Download full textAlberta Education Response Centre, Edmonton. – 1992
This guide for parents of individuals with intellectual disabilities emphasizes the need for a transition plan as a crucial stage in continuous service delivery for on-going supports and for fostering the individual's successful participation in the community. The guide contains three main headings. Under the first of these, "What Is…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. Div. of Special Services and Professional Programs. – 1987
These proceedings are the outcome of a 2-day conference involving education, health, and human service providers who work with children and youth with handicapping conditions across Washington State. The conference's purpose was to bring representatives from interagency teams together to exchange information about how the interagency teams…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavior Disorders, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
Black, Maureen M.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
Analysis of service needs of families caring for 571 young adults with mental retardation found that requests for community living were related more to family stressors than to characteristics of the young adult or participation in regular daytime activities. Services most requested were those representing normalizing activities. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adult Children, Community Programs, Family Environment, Family Life
Nathanson, Jeanne H., Ed. – OSERS News in Print, 1990
This newsletter issue offers six articles on employment of people with disabilities. "Employment and People with Disabilities: Challenges for the Nineties" (Frank Bowe) discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act, issues in unemployment and under-education, earnings, and implications for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Disabilities, Employment, Employment Level
Wagner, Colleen, Ed. – 1993
This directory contains information about organizations in the United States that offer the following types of services to parents of children and youth with emotional and behavioral disorders: support groups; education; training; referral; advocacy at the case or systems level; transition services; or direct assistance such as respite care, child…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Child Advocacy, Community Programs, Day Care
Everson, Jane M., Ed.; And Others – 1987
This manual aids in developing cross-agency and cross-disciplinary inservice training in the areas of transition and supported employment for moderately and severely disabled individuals. Using a "train-the-trainer" approach, the manual outlines goals and objectives and presents strategies for designing inservice workshops and training…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Design, Cooperative Planning
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. National Center for Youth with Disabilities. – 1993
This report presents the findings of a study which examined the service delivery system for adolescents with chronic illness, through a survey of 248 directors of public agencies and programs of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with a 73 percent response rate. The seven programs surveyed within each state were Maternal and Child Health…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Chronic Illness, Delivery Systems
