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Efforts to Increase Social Contact in Persons with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities: Analysing Individual Support Plans in the Netherlands

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Kamstra, Aafke; van der Putten, Annette A. J.; Vlaskamp, Carla – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2017

Most people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) have limited social contact and it is unclear what is done to maintain or increase these contacts. Individual support planning (ISP) can be used in the systematic enhancement of social contacts. This study analyses the content of ISPs with respect to the social contacts of…

Descriptors: Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Interpersonal Relationship, Individualized Programs

Regression Analysis of Pre & Post-Center Incomes for State of Relocation: Can Pre-Center Income/Salary Predict Post-Center Salaries?

Myers, Douglas D. – 1976

A study was conducted to determine if the pre-center incomes/salaries could predict the post-center salaries of participants in the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state area. By using the reported family income…

Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Economic Status

A Comparison of Grade Level Scores on the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) and the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS).

Myers, Douglas D. – 1976

Regression analysis was employed to determine if there were any similarities between the tests administered to participants of the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state area. The study compared the Wide Range…

Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills, Career Education, Comparative Analysis

Regression Analysis of Pre-Center Demographic Variables: Can Biographic Variables Be Used to Predict Success at Mountain-Plains?

Myers, Douglas D. – 1976

Conducted to determine which, if any, variables tend to indicate potential success (operationally defined as completing the training program), an analysis examined pre-center characteristics and demographic variables of participants and attempted to apply that data to success in negotiating the Mountain Plains program, a residential, family-based…

Descriptors: Achievement, Career Education, Demography, Demonstration Programs

Secondary Psychiatric Schools: Characteristics and Approaches to Curriculum

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Gagnon, Joseph Calvin; Van Loan, Christopher L.; Barber, Brian R. – Preventing School Failure, 2011

This study focused on approaches to curriculum, as well as school, principal, and student characteristics in secondary day treatment and residential psychiatric schools. A national random sample of 148 principals responded to a survey. No statistically significant differences existed between respondent and nonrespondent schools with regard to…

Descriptors: Residential Schools, Disabilities, Instructional Materials, Student Characteristics

The Mountain-Plains Education & Economic Development Program: Success or Failure?

Bale, Richard L.; Molitor, James A. – 1978

Reported here is the external summative evaluation of the Mountain-Plains program, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state region. (For the internal summative evaluation see CE 014 682-684.) To determine the program's success in…

Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Development, Career Education, Disadvantaged

Case Study Report #10. Ernie and Ilene Torres.