Described are the activities of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program, designed to facilitate the provision of quality services to preschool-age handicapped children and their families. (SBH)

The monograph reviews the first 2 years of a model program to identify gifted-handicapped and gifted-disadvantaged children (2 1/2-6 years old) and to provide them with a preschool program that would offer a balance between stimulating enrichment activities and therapy and remediation in developmental areas, delayed because of specific modality…

The document describes the Model Services for Handicapped Infants project, a service delivery system which provides families of the handicapped with training and education and provides direct services to handicapped infants. The following program components are addressed: children served, parents served, staff development, and information…

Based on the experience of implementing a demonstration model entitled Direction Service Model (DSM) in San Mateo County (California), the report describes one approach that can be utilized in the implementation of a federal law such as P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. An introductory section includes a listing of…

Described is a process model for outreach projects which are intended to stimulate increased specialized services for preschool handicapped children, their parents, and teachers. The model is described to be a flexible framework designed to faciltate the delivery of effective services by outreach projects to target audiences and agencies and to…

Intended for special education program planning teams, the guide details the development and implementation of full services programs for handicapped children in Prince William County, Maryland as specified in the Public Law 94-142. It is explained that the Full Services Model Program Consists of four processes: identification (involving public…

Described is the Technical Assistance Development System (TADS), a component of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which offers support services to preschool demonstration centers for handicapped children in the First Chance Network. Discussed are the four types of services offered:…

The final report of the Maryland State Department of Education's 2 year implementation of Project SURE (Special Utilization of Resources for the Early Education of the Handicapped) provides documentation of the results and consequences of the Project. A chart lists the objectives and results for four major project goals: (1) the creation of an…

The manual provides information on procedures--the videotape recording procedure (VTR), the mobile resource center (MRC), and the child services specialist (CSS)--developed and used in the Cooperstown (New York) Head Start Program, a 3-year experimental project for developing ways to deliver services to rural area preschool children with special…

This model program was designed to improve inservice education for local school districts involved in the delivery of special education services to students in public schools, grades kindergarten through twelve. Six regional training centers were established in Massachusetts following a needs assessment survey of teachers to identify competencies…

Described are activities of the first 2 years of the Chapel Hill Gifted-Handicapped Project, a demonstration program to identify gifted-handicapped and gifted-disadvantaged children (3 to 6 years old) and provide them with a preschool program of enrichment activities and therapy and remediation in developmental areas. Sections address the…

Reported are the recommendations resulting from a review of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program (EPSDT). The concept of developmental assessment, as used in the EPSDT, is explained. The introduction provides a summary of the recommendations. Areas covered and for which recommendations are discussed include the role…

The report examines the need for an outreach program to alert families of low-income handicapped children (from birth through 18 years old) to assistance available under the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. In an introductory section, it is explained that unknown numbers of SSI-eligible children are not…

Described in the document are the procedures of a 3-year project to develop and validate a service delivery system for the early identification of and intervention with exceptional students in two Florida counties. Sections cover the following topics: identification and intervention procedures, roles of personnel, summaries of eight teacher…

Described in a monograph published by the Technical Assistance Delivery System (TADS) are the rationale, intake and screening procedures, service delivery, liaison and follow through, and evaluation of parent training models from four preschool demonstration centers for handicapped children. An overview discusses the purposes and dimensions of…