ERIC Number: ED391275
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995-Dec-1
Pages: 46
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New York Partnership for Statewide Systems Change. Programs for Severely Handicapped Children. Final Report.
Neveldine, Thomas; Meyer, Luanna H.
This report describes activities and accomplishments of the New York Partnership for Statewide Systems Change Project, a 5-year project to increase and improve inclusive educational services to New York State students with severe disabilities. The project provided inservice training, technical assistance, and model demonstration and evaluation activities. Unique features of the project included a partnership model of collaboration between: (1) agencies responsible for the delivery of educational services and (2) institutions of higher education involved in teacher education and applied research. A needs assessment and action planning process was implemented to ensure locally relevant planning and coordination of service delivery. Intensive professional development and technical assistance activities were carried out to support local school districts, organizations and agencies, and parents of students with disabilities. Materials were developed to provide information on effective systems change strategies and delivery of quality inclusive schooling for students with severe disabilities in their neighborhood schools. The project directly benefited approximately 10 percent of New York students with severe disabilities, including students with deaf-blindness. Many other students in the state benefited indirectly from the project. Individual sections of this report describe the project's goals and objectives, major accomplishments, accomplishments by specific goals, problems encountered, technical changes, and impact. An appendix contains an annotated list of approximately 50 related publications. (DB)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Consultation Programs, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Inservice Education, Parent Education, Professional Development, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Severe Disabilities, State Programs, Systems Approach, Technical Assistance
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office for Special Education Services.; Syracuse Univ., NY. School of Education.
Identifiers - Location: New York
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