Presents a firsthand account of the author's experiences with taking the actions necessary to achieve institutional accreditation. After listing the benefits of working through the process, the article explains the steps used to achieve accreditation. Accredited baccalaureate programs in recreation, park resources, and leisure services are listed.…

This publication highlights resources that can increase educators' awareness of, and skill in, monitoring students' progress. The listed resources include: (1) computer search printouts of abstracts from ERIC educational journals and documents; (2) copies and summaries of excerpts from recent literature on monitoring students; (3) listings of…

This guide to recreation and leisure resources for handicapped individuals contains a list of information resources, a funding guide, and a bibliography. In the first section brief organizational profiles, descriptions of services provided by the organizations, and instructions on how to use these services are presented for seven organizations.…

The booklet is designed to help educators understand recreation services for handicapped children in the schools. An introductory section considers the importance of leisure for the handicapped and reviews the inclusion of recreation as a related service in P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. The second section addresses…

This monograph briefly describes a sampling of tools and technologies that can be used by adults with learning disabilities to improve their functional capabilities in employment, educational, or personal settings. Stressed is the importance of evaluating each technology in terms of the individual's unique profile, the function to be performed,…