Oversight Hearing on Education of Handicapped Children: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education, Jointly with the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session Hearing Held in Washington, D.C., on March 27, 1979

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Página 80 - related services' means transportation, and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services (including speech pathology and audiology, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, and medical and counseling services, except that such medical services shall be for diagnostic and evaluation purposes only) as may be required to assist a handicapped child to benefit from special education, and includes the early identification and assessment of handicapping conditions...
Página 81 - Nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve an insurer or similar third party from an otherwise valid obligation to provide or pay for services provided to a handicapped person.
Página 71 - Child Care Arrangements in the United States in 1974," testimony before the Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty and Migratory Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, and the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor, Joint Hearings on the Child and Family Services Act, 1975, 94th Congress, 1st Session, Feb.
Página 24 - However, this mandate does not apply for children in the three to five and eighteen to twenty-one age ranges if the requirement is inconsistent with state policies. The original versions of PL 94-142 were amended to allow state option for the 3 to 5 year population. The decision was then made to "buy" what we will not "mandate" through inclusion in PL 94-142 of the preschool incentive grant program. The incentive grant component is aimed at encouraging the states to provide special education and...
Página 86 - ... at least a proportionate number of handicapped children of the same age. (3) If a public agency provides education to 50 percent or more of its handicapped children in any disability category in any of these age groups, it must make a free appropriate public education available to all of its handicapped children of the same age who have that disability.
Página 81 - Nonacademic and extracurricular services and activities may include counseling services, physical recreational athletics, transportation, health services, recreational activities, special interest groups or clubs sponsored by the recipients, referrals to agencies which provide assistance to handicapped persons, and employment of students, including both employment by the recipient and assistance in making available outside employment.
Página 25 - Secondly, earjy childhood specialist Betty Caldwell has concluded that: , : Differences on most cognitive variables can be demonstrated as a function of an early childhood spent in environments presumed to differ in the amount and quality of available stimulation. In essence, the earlier a handicapped child obtains stimulating, developmentally appropriate experiences, the greater his chance of participating in . the larger society.
Página 83 - ... educational placement. (b) If the complaint involves an application for initial admission to public school, the child, with the consent of the parents, must be placed in the public school until the completion of all the proceedings.
Página 4 - Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Mental Health serve these children, as well as the Illinois Office of Education.
Página 16 - ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS, THE COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN We thank you for the opportunity to appear before this distinguished panel of the 96th Congress to offer the views of The Council for Exceptional Children with respect to the fiscal aspects of FL 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act.

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