Resources for Schools: 9. Resources for Training Educators of Children with Special Needs.

Overview & Synopsis

The guide provides information on training materials, programs, and organizations for preparing educators to work with handicapped children. Entries include a brief description, cost, and contact address for materials on the following topics: adapted physical education, administration, affective development, early childhood education, individualized education programs, laws and regulations, mainstreaming, parents/parental involvement, regular classroom teachers, resource rooms, severe special needs, speech and language development, testing/program evaluation, and vocational special education. A second section lists training programs and organizations for adapted physical education/physical development, administrator education, arts/environmental design, bilingual special education, early childhood education, mainstreaming, parents and parental involvement, regular classroom teachers, seizure disorders, severe special needs, and vocational special education. Seventeen reource centers and general training sources are listed, and training programs offered by Massachusetts colleges and universities are briefly described. (CL)