ERIC ED426562: Discretionary Projects Supported by the Office of Special Education Programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Fiscal Year 1998: Personnel Preparation.

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EC 307 000
ED 426 562
Orkwis, Ray; DeCarme, Judi; Glover, Jeanne
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Discretionary Projects Supported by the Office of Special
TITLE
Education Programs under the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act, Fiscal Year 1998: Personnel Preparation.
ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education,
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ISBN-0-86586-333-4
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IDENTIFIERS
Special Education Programs
ABSTRACT
This five-volume directory describes almost 1,200
discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice
Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are
grouped into five sections representing the seven program areas of the newly
reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Part D. This
volume, the second of the directory, describes projects concerning personnel
preparation. These projects are designed to help address state-identified
needs for qualified personnel in special education, related services, early
intervention, and regular education to work with children with disabilities.
Emphasis is on ensuring that personnel have the skills and knowledge, derived
from practices that have been determined through research and experience to
be successful, that are needed to serve those children. The projects are
grouped by the competitions under which they were funded, and include
information on grant number, title, project director, beginning and ending
dates, and contact information. An abstract describes the project's purposes,
proposed methods, and proposed products. Four indexes are provided: a project
director index, an organizational index, a state index, and a subject index.
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Discretionary Projects Supported by the Office of Special Education
Programs Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Fiscal Year 1998
PERSONNEL PREPARATION
Prepared by
Ray Orkwis, Judi DeCarme, and Jeanne Glover
The ERIC/OSEP Special Project
ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
The Council for Exceptional Children
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs
Research to Practice Division
OSEP Discretionary Projects: Personnel Preparation
ISBN 0-86586-333-4
Published 1998 by
The Council for Exceptional Children
1920 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia 20191-1589
Stock No. R5300
This publication was developed by the ERIC/OSEP Special Project, which is operated by the ERIC
Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education, under Contract RR93002005 between the Council for
Exceptional Children and the Office of Special Educaiton Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of
Education. The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education is operated under a contract with
the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (0ER1), U.S. Department of Education.
The
contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of OSEP, OERI, or any other agency of the
U.S. government.
Personnel Preparation
Table of Contents
Page
Competition
84.029A and 84.325A
Preparation of Special Education, Related Services, and
Early Intervention Personnel to Serve Infants, Toddlers,
Children, and Youth with Low-Incidence Disabilities
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84.029B
Preparation of Personnel for Careers in Special Education 76
84.029D and 84.325D
95
Preparation of Leadership Personnel
84.029E and 84.325E
Preparation of Minority Personnel
143
84.029F
Preparation of Related Services Personnel
181
84.029G and 84.325G
189
Preservice Personnel Training
84.029K
254
Special Projects
84.029L
284
Preparation of Educational Interpreters
84.029Q
288
Training Personnel to Serve Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
84.029U
Developing Licensing Standards for Beginning Teachers
299
Regarding Children with Disabilities
84.325H
Improving the Preparation of Personnel to Serve Children
300
with High-Incidence Disabilities
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Table of Contents
Competition
Page
84.325N
National Significance/Nondirected
324
84.325P
National Significance/Directed
329
Indexes
Project Director
331
Organization
336
State
339
Subject
341
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INTRODUCTION
This directory, which is presented in five separately published sections, describes almost 1200
discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office
of Special Education Programs, which administers the discretionary programs authorized by
the 1997Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Some of the
projects were funded under the provisions of the original IDEA, but for the purposes of this di-
rectory they are grouped into five sections representing the seven program areas of the newly
authorized IDEA, Part D:
Research, Innovation and Evaluation (which covers two programs: Research and
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Innovation and Studies and Evaluations)
2: Personnel Preparation
3: Technical Assistance, Dissemination, and Parent Training (which covers two programs:
Technical Assistance and Dissemination and Parent Training and Information)
4: Technology and Media Services
State Improvement
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This section of the directory, "Personnel Preparation," presents projects designed to help ad-
dress state-identified needs for qualified personnel in special education, related services, early
intervention, and regular education, to work with children with disabilities; and to ensure that
those personnel have the skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been deter-
mined through research and experience to be successful, that are needed to serve those chil-
dren.
Within this section of the directory, the projects are grouped by the competitions under which
they were funded. Access to the project information is enhanced by several indexes, which in-
clude:
Project Director Index
Organization Index
State Index
Subject Index, which includes specific disabilities of the projects' target groups,
degrees granted by the projects, geographic focus of the projects, and the portfolio
area or topic of the projects.
Please note that an extra digit has been added to the OSEP grant numbers to reflect
the decade in
which the grant was awarded. For the 1990's, the digit 9 has been inserted after the
second al-
phabetical character in each grant number. For example, H023B70074 is
now H023B270074.
This directory is also accessible as a searchable database
on the World Wide Web. The Uniform
Resource Locator is http://www.cec.sped.org/osep/search.htm
If any errors are found in this material, please report them to the ERIC/OSEP Special Project
([email protected]) so that future editions of the directory and the database will be
as accu-
rate as possible.
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Grant Number:H029A940002
Preparation of Rural Special Educators for
Students with Severe, Multiple Disabilities
Project Director:Ondrusko,Monica
Beginning Date:Jun 1, 1994
Ending Date:May 31, 1999
Slippery Rock University
Dept Special Ed
Slippery Rock, PA 16507
Voice:[phone]
Purpose:This program will prepare special education teachers to work in rural areas with children and
youth who have severe or multiple disabilities, including students aged 2 to 21 whose primary disability is
moderate to severe mental retardation and who have related physical, neurological, emotional, health-re-
lated, and/or language disorders. Federal funding will support 12 undergraduate senior level trainees per
year for a period of five years. Eleven of the recipients of traineeships will be recruited from districts in
Pennsylvania and will be persons who intend to return to these districts as special education teachers.
One other will be recruited from and returned to another state, with assistance from employers who have
hired Slippery Rock graduates previously.. Both currently certified general education teachers and new
high school graduates seeking certification as special educators will be eligible. High school guidance
counselors and school administrators will assist in the selection of trainees by recommending those who
have potential for and interest in the program. A consultant in rural special education will assist in the
process of matching program graduates with Pennsylvania's employing districts. The program has exist-
ing agreements with the University's Office of Minority Student Affairs and with Cheney (Pennsylvania's
historically Black university) to assure recruitment of students from under-represented racial/ethnic
groups. The program will consist of a series of related courses, practica, and experiences designed to en-
able the graduate to work effectively with special education students in rural districts. This role will re-
quire: * Competence in general special education teaching; * Skill in the use of adaptive technology,
including distance learning; * An appreciation for rural communities and for cultural diversity; * An un-
derstanding of the student's health-related, psychological and vocational needs; * Ability to collaborate as
a member of a professional team; and * Ability to access related services for students and their families.
Slippery Rock University will provide this program by building on its existing general education pro-
gram, a variety of well established school partnerships, and strong campus programs in allied health,
physical therapy, nursing, adaptive physical education, and the arts. The special education department
has the capability of using interactive technology, including adaptive equipment and distance learning.
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Discretionary Projects Supported by OSEP // Personnel Preparation
Grant Number:H029A940004
Improving Services for Rural Students Who Use Augmentative and
Alternative Communication: A Masters Level Preservice Training
Program for Speech Language Pathologists
Project Director:Light, Janice
Beginning Date:Aug 1, 1994
Ending Date:Jul 31, 1999
Penn State University
Dept Communication Disorders
110 Tech Center Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
Voice:[phone]
Purpose:There is a critical need to prepare master's level speech/language pathologists in the competen-
cies requires to provide high quality services to infants, children, and youth with severe communication
disabilities who are precluded from functional speech and require augmentative and alternative communi-
cation (AAC). To date, universities across Pennsylvania and across the United States have lagged behind
in developing appropriate language pathologists. As a result, there is a lack of speech/language patholo-
gists to provide services to this population, and services are typically provided by professionals with lim-
ited experience or skills in serving this population. These problems are particularly acute in rural areas.
This project will support the development of a comprehensive preservice training program to prepare mas-
ter's level speech/language pathologists in AAC, especially for students who reside in rural areas. This
program will significantly extend Penn State's current master's program for speech and language patholo-
gists to include a concentrated focus on serving infants, children, and youth who have severe communica-
tion disabilities and require AAC. The two-year program will blend academic learning of theory and
current research in AAC with hands-on practicum experience to allow students the opportunity to trans-
late theory into practice. Practicum experiences will include both in-house experiences and a 15- week ex-
ternship at exemplary practicum sites identified across the state.
Grant Number:H029A940021
Pre-Service Program for Educators of Students Who Are
Deaf-Blind and Multiply Disabled (0-22).
Project Director:Jackson, Richard
Beginning Date:Jul 1, 1994
Ending Date:Jun 30, 1999
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Ave
Chestnut Hill, MA 02167
Voice:[phone]
Purpose:This project will prepare 65 teachers of individuals with deaf-blindness and multiple disabilities
over a five-year period. Content for this advanced graduate level program includes general education,
builds on teacher preparation in severe/intensive disabilities which includes strategies for including learn-
ers with severe disabilities in general education settings, dovetails with vision studies, and offers course-
work and closely supervised practica in deaf-blindness. Completion of the program leads to a master's
degree in 37 credit hours. Graduates meet the standards of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be
fully certified in Intensive/Severe Special Needs and have additional competencies to meet the unique
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