One of a series of materials developed by Project APT (Administrators, Parents, and Teachers/Assessment, Programing, and Training), a program designed to foster home/school coordination in educational planning and program implementation for severely mentally retarded and/or multiply handicapped students; the booklet focuses on techniques for…

The paper describes components of the Cooperative Student Care public school program in which five Texas school districts have joined together to provide educational services in functional academics, vocational training, social skills training, life skills training, and related services for severely/profoundly handicapped students. Four facilities…

Presented is a training program for paraprofessional personnel serving as classroom assistants with multi-handicapped mentally handicapped school-age children. It is noted that this model training packet, T.A.S.K. (Training Assistants for Special Kids) was developed by Cold Spring School, Indianapolis, Indiana, for training of their special…