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Curriculum for Individuals with a Developmental Disability: An Overview.
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Palma, Gloria M; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1993
A functional curriculum for individuals who are developmentally disabled was developed at Tohatchi Special Education and Training Center, located within the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. The curriculum guide includes a contextual framework, extensive background information, and objectives for fine- and gross-motor and language and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities
Local Staff Enhances Service Delivery.
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Schlaht, Dell H. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Describes how the Blackfeet Head Start Program uses professionals to train local residents as screeners and home trainers for preschool handicapped children. Notes that numbers of handicapped children and their families who receive services have increased as a result of using local home trainers and teachers as direct care providers. (JHZ)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems, Home Instruction
Project SERT: Special Education Training for Regular Educators of Native Americans.
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Foster, Carl G. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
The Bureau of Indian Affairs' Chinle Agency is responsible for the education of 3,500 Navajo children; 230 are special education students. A questionnaire revealed that regular teachers felt inadequately prepared to teach the special education student. Project SERT provided 45 hours of graduate level instruction in special education knowledge and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
The Circle of Life: Preparing Teachers To Work with American Indian Students with Disabilities.
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Herbert, Michael A.; Mayhew, John C.; Sebastian, Joan P. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1997
Describes a federally-funded University of Utah model project to prepare teachers to work with American Indian students with disabilities in both rural and urban regions. Components include cultural sensitivity and awareness, nonbiased assessment, fostering resilience, curriculum and instructional strategies, transition and collaboration, field…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Cultural Awareness, Disabilities, Distance Education
A Model Project for Identifying Rural Gifted and Talented Students in the Visual Arts.
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De Leon, Jozi; Argus-Calvo, Beverley; Medina, Catherine – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1997
A rural New Mexico project identifies gifted Hispanic and Native American children in the visual arts. Committees of parents, teachers, artists, and administrators use identification procedures sensitive to cultural, linguistic, and ethnic differences and community ethnic identity. Program elements include culturally relevant differentiated…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Cultural Differences, Culturally Relevant Education
Special Education Program for Native American Exceptional Students and Regular Program Staff.
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Foster, Carl G. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1988
The Tuba City Boarding School, a western Navajo Agency facility in northern Arizona, initiated a summer program that provided instruction to special education students and special education knowledge and skills for regular teachers who had exceptional students mainstreamed into their classrooms. The program resulted in improved teacher-student…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Challenges Facing Teacher Educators in Rural, Remote, and Isolated Areas: Using What We Know and What We Have Learned.
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Sealander, Karen; Eigenberger, Martin; Peterson, Patricia; Shellady, Suzanne; Prater, Greg – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2001
Three Arizona programs aim to train culturally and linguistically diverse general and special educators who understand the needs and strengths of rural communities. Native Americans and Mexican Americans from rural areas who want to work with special needs populations are recruited, as well as whites. Many are paraprofessionals, working full time…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, College School Cooperation, Extension Education, Geographic Isolation
The Rural Special Education Project: A School-Based Program That Prepares Special Educators to Teach Native American Students.
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Prater, Greg; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1996
A Northern Arizona University program prepares preservice special education teachers to work with Native American children and families. University students live on the Navajo reservation and receive practical classroom experience at Kayenta Unified School District (Arizona). Anglo students are paired with Navajo students who act as "cultural…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Anglo Americans