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Quality of Early Childhood Programs in Inclusive and Noninclusive Settings.
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Buysse, Virginia; Wesley, Patricia W.; Bryant, Donna; Gardner, Dave – Exceptional Children, 1999
This study assessed factors contributing to global program quality in 180 community-based child-care centers in North Carolina. Inclusive early-childhood programs scored higher on the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale. Other predictors of global program quality included teacher education, professional experience, and teacher self-ratings of…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Day Care Centers, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Families for Handicapped Children: Foster and Adoptive Placement Programs
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Soeffing, Marylane – Exceptional Children, 1975
Descriptors: Adoption, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Exceptional Child Services
Evaluating Community Collaboration in Writing Interagency Agreements on the Age 3 Transition.
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Fowler, Susan A.; Donegan, Mary; Lueke, Brenda; Hadden, D. Sarah; Phillips, Barbara – Exceptional Children, 2000
Representatives from 34 local interagency coordinating councils were interviewed about interagency agreements for the legally required transition from the infant/toddler to preschool service delivery system at age 3. Results indicated that most communities included the majority of legal transition requirements in their agreements. Policy issues…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Planning
Applications of Ecological Theory: Toward A Community Special Education Model
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Apter, Steven J. – Exceptional Children, 1977
Descriptors: Community Programs, Ecology, Handicapped Children, Models
Families of Handicapped Children: Sources of Stress and Its Amelioration.
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Gallagher, James J.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1983
A review of the literature examines stress on families of handicapped children. Among sources cited are factors related to the child, parents, extended family, and institutions designed to help the child. Sources of support are noted and implications for service (such as family participation in training) are considered. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Community Programs, Disabilities, Family Problems
Community Involvement of Persons with Severe Retardation Living in Community Residences.
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Aveno, Arlene – Exceptional Children, 1989
A survey was conducted with 294 community residential facilities serving adults with severe retardation. Compared to nonhandicapped community members, the residents were perceived to have more involvement in only 4 of 38 community activities, including employment or day activities, using health care services, walking/wheelchair strolling, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Community-Referenced Instruction in Technological Work Settings.
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Gaylord-Ross, Robert; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1987
Two studies investigated the extent to which high school students (N=12 and N=6) with such handicaps as moderate mental retardation, learning handicaps, and deafness could learn work behaviors in a technological setting. After training, these students were judged by graduate students and high school students to be significantly more vocationally…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Competence, Disabilities, High Schools