The authors examine barriers to disseminating research knowledge to parents of handicapped children, stress the importance of researchers communicating to parents, and suggest ways to improve dissemination efforts.

The parent of a blind child urges other parents of handicapped children to realize their value in relationships with professionals by presenting ideas and information and cooperating with teachers and administrators in problem solving. She emphasizes the importance of parents understanding and communicating their own limits. (CL)

A case study illustrates the family dynamics of a seven-year-old with academic and social problems. The parents' inability to deal with overly technical information presented in a written evaluation report is noted, as is the mother's view of her son's school behavior as a reflection of her personal inadequacy. (CL)

Interest in sibling conflict prompted Avigail Ram and Hildy Ross to investigate how 32 sibling peers shared information with each other in order to reduce conflicts of interest. The investigators set up a situation in which they asked sibling pairs to divide a set of five toys. Half of the pairs were asked to share information to their brother or…

Hundreds of thousands of children and youth with disabilities across the country are receiving secondary transition services. Secondary transition is the process of preparing students with disabilities for life after they leave high school, including participation in post-secondary education or training, employment and independent living.…

Communication can be difficult for children with conditions such as cerebral palsy because of speech and physical impairments. For this group of children, choice-making is often limited to choices of personal preferences; however, preferences do not reveal intellectual abilities. Therefore, choice-making should be presented to these children in…

The National Telerehabilitation Service System (NTSS) was created to provide access to quality rehabilitation services by researching new or existing telecommunications (communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice, and video, over long distances) and computing technologies and modifying them to meet the needs of people with…