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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED209796 AUTHOR: Jackson, Elouise, Ed.; Karp, Joan M. A., Ed.



TITLE: Program Strategies for Cultural Diversity.
Proceedings of the 1980 Minority Leadership Workshop:
Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (June 22-25,
1980).

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1980
NOTE: 82 p.; For related documents, see EC 140 309-310.
AVAILABILITY: WESTAR, Western States Technical Assistance
Resource, 345 N. Monmouth Ave., Monmouth, OR 97361 ($3.00).


ABSTRACT: The booklet contains proceedings of a conference
for minority project administrators in the Handicapped
Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP), a federal
program to develop exemplary services for young handicapped
children. Part 1 includes topical presentations reflecting
the expressed interests of participants related to model
programs. Chapters have the following titles and authors:
"Trends in Cultural Pluralism and Assessment of Minority
Group Children" (J. Wofford); "Planning and Implementing
Program Evaluation" (P. Gandara); "Developing,
Implementing, and Disseminating the Educational Model" (H.
Hankerson); "Cultural Awareness--Working with Parents of
Handicapped Children" (T. Brito); "Facilitating
Communication--The Action Planning Approach" (B. Coppock,
Jr.); and "Liaison with Other Programs and Agencies" (B.
Ramirez and Y. Galiber). A list of recommended strategies
for model development follows each chapter. Part 2
summarizes the content of two panel presentations dealing
with minority involvement in professional organizations and
federal program resources. A final section contains
supplementary information regarding the Minority Leadership
Consortium and the workshop itself--agenda, names and
addresses of workshop resource persons, and the workshop
evaluation report. (SB)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Agency-Cooperation; Multicultural
Education; Organizational-Communication; Parent
Participation; Program-Evaluation; Student-Evaluation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Differences; *Disabilities-;
*Early-Childhood-Education; *Minority-Groups; *Models-

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