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CDT - The Comprehensive Development Teams: Meeting the Needs of Mainstreamed Handicapped Young Children.
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Pokorni, Judith – 1977
The Comprehensive Developmental Teams (CDT) program, a multidisciplinary approach to improving Head Start services to handicapped children is described. Reviewed are the team's tasks--to identify, screen, and assess the children's strengths and weaknesses in order to develop comprehensive programs of intervention, including provision of individual…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Services, Handicapped Children, Identification, Individualized Programs
The Wyoming Infant Stimulation Program--Go WISP, Young Baby, Go WISP.
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Jelinek, Janis A.; Flamboe, Thomas C. – 1979
The Wyoming Infant Stimulation Program (WISP) provides a comprehensive preschool program utilizing both center-based and home-based intervention for handicapped preschool children (age 0-3 years) and their families in rural Wyoming. A developmental-prescriptive model is used and the curriculum objective is that each child will progress according…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Educational Objectives, Handicapped Children, Home Programs
PIE Project: Preschool Instruction for the Exceptional. Project Report: 1977-78.
Northern Valley Administrators Association, Closter, NJ. – 1978
The report focuses on the objectives of the Preschool Instruction for the Exceptional (PIE) program, an early intervention program designed to help handicapped children function more effectively and help parents understand their child's special needs. It is explained that the primary goal of PIE is to have each child enter the mainstream of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Coping, Educational Objectives, Handicapped Children
The Infant-Parent Training Program.
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Drezek, Wendy – 1976
The Infant-Parent Training Program is a model program providing day care, therapy-nursery, and home programs for handicapped children from 0 to 3 years old. Upon intake into the program, both parents and children attend four 1-hour diagnostic sessions during which children are assessed in the areas of cognitive functioning, language functioning,…
Descriptors: Day Care, Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
Educational Services as Continuous Process.
Mann, Philip H. – 1979
The response of the Teacher Corps project schools to the mandates of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) is reported. Changes in school based organization and management stemming from the legislation are divided into three categories: (1) general school types of procedures, including such areas as evaluation and assessment…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Due Process, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Policies and Procedures Manual for Special Education in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1980
The guide, a support document to the Oklahoma State Plan for Special Education, presents a policies and procedures manual for special education in Oklahoma in accordance with the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142). The manual is intended to establish the minimum standards for special education program approval, to establish…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Due Process, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Fact Sheets from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children: 1979 Series.
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. Information Center on Exceptional Children. – 1979
A series of 20 fact sheets is provided giving basic information on specific subjects of interest to those working with handicapped and gifted children. The fact sheets, developed by the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children during fiscal year 1979, are designed in question/answer format…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Career Education