Special Education Yearbook, 1987.

Overview & Synopsis

The yearbook provides special education information including federal and state policy actions; important reports; statistical data on exceptional students served and personnel employed; and directory listings of key offices, officials, and organizations concerned with special education. In general, the yearbook covers reports issued from July 1986 through June 1987. The yearbook is organized into five main sections. General information includes information on federal legislation; judicial decisions; the executive summary of the ninth annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Education of the Handicapped Act, Volume 1987; funding priorities; a joint statement on the relationship between special education and general education; and special education in Canada. The next section, on early childhood special education, includes excerpts from a report on handicapped children in Head Start. Section III contains U.S. statistics on exceptional children served. The fourth section reports on annual awards. The directory section contains information on: U.S. Congress Committees related to the handicapped, Office of Special Education Programs, the Council for Exceptional Children (including staff governance, and divisions), U.S. State Directors of Special Education, U.S. Coordinators of Programs for the gifted and talented, Canadian senior government officials in special education, and organizations and agencies serving exceptional children and adults. Sixty-two tables provide statistical data. (DB)