Ways in which the resources of a university's special education, communication arts, and library services can be combined with those of special education consortiums or parent organizations to provide exceptional children and their parents and teachers with high-quality cable educational television programs that meet their varied needs are…

The major goal of the Educational Television Intervention Programs Project (ETIPS) of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, is to develop, field test, and disseminate a supplementary model for early intervention in rural isolated regions. The ETIPS model is based on beliefs that parents can be effective at early intervention…

The Educational Television Intervention Programs Project uses television and video technology to increase public awareness of early intervention and to improve family members' competence in implementing home-based intervention. The project includes a video series about child development for individuals working with both typically developing and…

The Special Education Distance Learning Consortium in West Virginia has developed a program offering core special education courses to teachers unable to attend courses at the campus sites of the state's three graduate teacher preparation programs. The three courses which constitute the core are: "Introduction to Exceptional Children and…