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Jelinek, Janis A.; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Describes the Wyoming Infant Stimulation Program (WISP) and its numerous collaborative activities with federal, state, and local agencies including the Agricultural Extension Service and maternal and child health programs. Notes that successful collaboration was informal and involved cooperation on specific, discrete joint projects responding to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
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Gautt, Sandra W. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Project LINCS (Linking Infants in Need with Comprehensive Services) is based on a process orientation to the delivery of comprehensive services for rural handicapped infants and their families. Effective regional-community linkage is developed by community analysis, community entree, formal linkage development, formal structured interaction, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Community Services, Cooperative Programs
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Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Describes a report on New Mexico's public school services for three- and four-year-old handicapped children, focusing on features of special interest to rural educators. Topics are curriculum selection, program models, and program delivery system alternatives. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Curriculum, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
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Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Profiles three programs recognized for exemplary rural special education programs. Describes a program for severely handicapped birth-through-three children in an isolated mountainous Tennessee community, a multidisciplinary special education team that provides an itinerant resource room for an Alaska school district of 22,000 square miles, and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
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Scheffelin, Margaret M.; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1988
Describes the principles of program evaluation and the technical assistance provided in 1986-87 to North Dakota local educational agencies for evaluating their special education programs. Emphasizes local control of the evaluation activities and includes an example of planning for a local evaluation study on least restrictive environment. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Local Issues, Program Descriptions
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Sarachan-Deily, Ann Beth – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
Describes a program designed to help rural school staff meet the educational needs of handicapped students and to give preservice teacher education students the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to work successfully with handicapped students in rural schools. Discusses the project's implications for the shortage of speech-language pathologists in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Markve, Robert; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1992
Existing models of supported employment (individual placement, mobile crew, enclave, and benchwork models) have limited utility in rural areas. The Black Hills Special Services Cooperative (Sturgis, South Dakota) developed an entrepreneurial model that addresses the lack of rural employers and transportation problems by creating new businesses…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Entrepreneurship