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ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1975
The annotated bibliography on early childhood intervention in infancy contains approximately 65 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1968 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Disabilities
O'Connell, Dorothy, Comp.; And Others – 1973
This publication includes reports of research on children in progress or recently completed from September 1972 through February 1973. Each entry includes information concerning the investigator, purpose, subjects, methods, duration, cooperating groups, and findings (if available). The reports are listed under several topical headings: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Abuse, Child Development
District of Columbia Dept. of Human Resources, Washington, DC. – 1968
Services for persons living in the District of Columbia, with handicaps due to mental, physical, sensory, or special health conditions, are described. Agencies offering services for several handicapping conditions and government facilities are listed; indexes list agencies by specific handicaps and by services. The address, telephone, hours,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Admission Criteria, Agencies, Clinical Diagnosis
Lowenfeld, Berthold – 1968
Data elicited by two questionnaires on the characteristics (numbers, nature, extent, and location) of the multihandicapped population under 21 years of age in California are presented. Based on replies by 613 programs (47% response) and estimated to include 80 to 90% of the state's multihandicapped blind children, statistics concern…
Descriptors: Blindness, Counseling Services, Deaf Blind, Educational Programs
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Gates, Carmelia; Kappan, David I. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Describes graduate teacher education program at University of Northern Colorado emphasizing full and equal training in three competency areas: academic instruction, orientation/mobility, and needs of severely/profoundly handicapped blind children. Finds program serves rural/small schools and districts lacking sufficient population of visually…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Higher Education, Itinerant Teachers, Multiple Disabilities
Semel, Eleanor – 1977
This final report describes the activities and outcomes of a federally-funded program designed to meet the needs of high risk hearing impaired children with multiple handicaps from 0-2 years of age--a population not served at the time by local, state, or federal programs. The project's hypothesis was that the initiation of a "total…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Curriculum Development, Deafness
Siegel-Causey, Ellin – 1996
This volume is a guide for assessing children with dual sensory or severe impairments between birth and age 5. It begins by discussing a functional-ecological three-step assessment process for children birth to three years, and the steps for assessing preschoolers from three to five years old. It then describes six steps to guide the use of the…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Early Identification, Evaluation Methods, Family Involvement
McGhie-Richmond, Donna R. – 2002
This study examined the teaching practices of Maria, a special education teacher who worked with students who had multiple disabilities, were nonverbal, and used augmentative and alternative communication. The study focused on the complex, interdependent, and dynamic nature of teacher knowledge, beliefs, and practices, illuminating the connection…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Milian, Madeline – 2002
This final report describes the activities and outcomes of a University of Northern Colorado project designed to enhance programs for preparing teachers to work with students with sensory impairments from linguistically diverse backgrounds. Project accomplishments included: (1) financially supporting 18 trainees who were pursuing a graduate degree…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
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Cunningham, Phillippe B.; And Others – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 1996
This study examined the cross-ethnic equivalence of several measures commonly used to tap contextual correlates (i.e., parental symptomatology, family relations, peer relations) of serious emotional disturbance in children. Subjects were 117 juvenile offenders with diagnosed substance abuse or dependence disorders and considerable psychiatric…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Children, Cultural Differences
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1995
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of the New Jersey Technical Assistance Project, a project to improve educational resources and support services for students with multiple sensory impairment (deaf-blindness). Activities and accomplishments are presented in a tabular format for each project goal and objective. The project…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Disability Identification
Mar, Harvey H.; Sall, Nancy – 1995
This case study describes the educational history and current program of Mike, a mainstreamed sixth-grader with deaf-blindness. It addresses the boy's successes and the ongoing challenges faced by his family, his educational team, and his peers. Background information notes his diagnosis of total blindness and moderate to severe hearing loss, his…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Deaf Blind, Family School Relationship, Inclusive Schools
Bruns, Deborah A. – 1996
This case study describes the 2-year process of moving a young child with severe disabilities and complex medical needs from a special school setting to a special class in a regular education setting. The child had Marshall-Smith Syndrome, characterized by respiratory, pulmonary, and skeletal abnormalities, and developmental delays due to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Diagnosis, Failure to Thrive
Bellinger, Diane; And Others – 1995
This paper reviews the research on fragile X syndrome, the second most common cause of mental retardation related to chromosomal anomaly. It notes that far more males than females are affected by the fragile X syndrome, which typically results in craniofacial changes, delays in growth and development, speech/language difficulties, and cognitive…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Clinical Diagnosis, DNA
National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, Washington, DC. – 1990
Trends during the 1980s are described including high infant mortality, no decline in low birthweight percentages, an increase in the black-white infant mortality gap, more high-risk pregnancies, and inadequate prenatal care. Inadequate progress in reducing infant mortality is attributed in part to the limited technological ability to save…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Child Health, Disabilities
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