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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED179034 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Fact Sheets from the ERIC Clearinghouse on
Handicapped and Gifted Children: 1979 Series.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 43 p.; For related materials, see EC 121 325-328.
AVAILABILITY: Sheets $1.00).
ABSTRACT: 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 and have resource references.
Following are the topics of the fact sheets: career
education, how a parent group can effect legislation for
the gifted and talented, the special education job market,
federal resources for special education, assessment of
minority students, cultural values and motivation,
educational rights of American Indian and Alaska native
handicapped children, special problems of handicapped
minority students, multicultural education and the
exceptional child, self identity and the culturally diverse
child, affirmative action for the handicapped, reaching
handicapped children in their early years, the argument for
early intervention, the IEP (individualized educational
plan) review, parents' rights and responsibilities, privacy
and confidentiality, adjudicated handicapped youth,
responsibilities of regular classroom teachers for
handicapped students, higher education for handicapped
students, and bilingual education for exceptional children.
(PHR)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Alaska-Natives; American-Indians;
Bilingual Education; Career-Education; Civil-Rights;
Confidentiality-; Delinquency-; Educational-Legislation;
Individualized Programs; Infants-; Intervention-;
Labor-Market; Mainstreaming-; Minority-Groups;
Multicultural-Education; Parent-Responsibility; Privacy-;
Self-Concept; Student Evaluation; Teacher-Responsibility;
Teacher-Role
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Definitions-; *Educational-Diagnosis;
*Gifted-; *Handicapped-Children
This is an ERIC database document. ERIC is the National
Education Information Network for providing ready access
to the literature of education -descriptions of exemplary
programs, research and development efforts, and related
information that can be used in developing more effective
educational programs. The ERIC database is currently
available on CD-ROM in the main library (ground floor of
the west wing) at Michigan State University. To locate
ERIC documents in the library identify the first line of
each record (i.e., the field ERIC TITLE NUMBER). ED
following ERIC TITLE NUMBER indicates an ERIC document,
an unpublished research study. Most of these items are
available in the Microforms library, located on the 3rd
floor of the west wing. All you need is the six digit ED
number. If EJ follows ERIC TITLE NUMBER the item is a
journal article. The complete journal name is listed after
the code JOURNAL.
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