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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED149492 AUTHOR:
TITLE: The White House Conference on Handicapped
Individuals: Volume II. Final Report. Part C. May 23-27,
1977.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 308 p.; See EC 103 351 and EC 103 352 for other parts
of the final report and EC 101 392 for the awareness papers
developed for the conference
AVAILABILITY: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 (Stock No. 040-000
00388-6; sold in 3 volume sets only)
ABSTRACT: The three-part final report documents recommend
recommendations and resolutions and summarizes the work of
more than 700 delegates to the White House Conference on
Handicapped Individuals, May 23-27, 1977, in Washington,
D.C. It is emphasized that the primary purpose of the
conference was to give persons with mental and/or physical
disabilities an opportunity to voice their concerns and
vote on recommended solutions to problems. Part C reprints
verbatim the recommendations approved during the conference
and the resolutions affirmed in a poll taken by mail after
the conference. Approzimately 150 recommendations and
resolutions are listed for the following issues: health,
education, social, special, and miscellaneous concerns.
Resolutions cover such areas as national health insurance
and planning, early identification and diagnostic services,
and screening programs, (health concerns); preschool
evaluation services, funds for vocational education, and
enforcement of Education For All Handicapped Children Act
(educational concerns); developing positive attitudes,
portrayal of handicapped in advertising, and recreational
programs and facilities (social concerns); Section 501 of
the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, affirmative action and
employment, and sheltered workshops (economic concerns);
library services, mainstreaming, and sexuality of
handicapped individuals (special concerns); and
commendation of the Carter administration, exclusion of
alcoholism and drug abuse from handicapping conditions, and
parent participation (miscellaneous concerns). (DB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Conference-Reports; Federal-Legislation;
Needs-Assessment
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Disabilities-; *Economic-Factors;
*Educational-Needs; *Handicapped-Children; *Health-;
*Minority-Groups; *Social-Problems
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