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Changing Policies and Program Trends in Publicly Financed Services to the Developmentally Disabled. Instructional Course Number 24. Analysis.

Ross, E. Clarke – Word from Washington, 1982

The paper outlines the educational objectives of a course offered at the 1982 meeting of the American Academy on Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. The course addresses policy changes and trends in publically financed services to developmentally disabled persons. Topics covered in the outline are a continuum of care; historical…

Descriptors: Course Content, Court Litigation, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities

An Orientation to the Existing System of Public Financing Programs Currently Utilized in Providing Services to Persons with Developmental Disabilities.

Ross, E. Clarke – Word from Washington Analysis, 1979

The paper examines the assumptions, historical developments of the federal service delivery system for developmentally disabled persons. Services for the disabled are seen to have evolved from criteria oriented programs to entitlements with accompanying guarantees of due process. Major federal programs are traced from the 1918 Vocational…

Descriptors: Costs, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Trends

Children and Youth Receiving Residential Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities outside Their Family Home: Trends from 1977 to 1997.

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Lakin, K. Charlie; Anderson, Lynda; Prouty, Robert – Policy Research Brief, 1998

This policy research brief summarizes changes in out-of-home placements of children and youth with mental retardation since the implementation of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) entitlements. Statistics are reported for 1977, 1987, and 1997 to show trends. Statistics were obtained from…

Descriptors: Children, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Developmental Disabilities

Proceedings of the Annual Conference: Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers of the National Institute of Handicapped Research. Meeting the Opportunities of the National Institute of Handicapped Research (4th, Washington, D.C., May 5-7, 1980). Special Edition.

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Informer, 1980

Keynoted by Dr. Margaret J. Giannini, Director of the National Institute of Handicapped Research (NIHR), these conference proceedings focus on present concerns and future issues facing the NIHR and researchers and trainers in the field of rehabilitation of the handicapped. In her address, Dr. Giannini outlines priorities for the NIHR for the next…

Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities, Diseases, Federal Programs