[Project PEACH: A Prescriptive Educational Approach for Children with Handicaps. E.S.E.A. - Title VI-B. 1976-1977, and Appendix]. Report #77154.

Autor/in	Scheiner, Louis
Institution	Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation.
Titel	[Project PEACH: A Prescriptive Educational Approach for Children with Handicaps. E.S.E.A. - Title VI-B. 1976-1977, and Appendix]. Report #77154.
Quelle	(1978), (403 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academically Handicapped; Community Information Services; Data Processing; Educational Diagnosis; Exceptional Child Services; Handicap Identification; Handicapped Children; Hearing Impairments; Home Programs; Individualized Programs; Information Dissemination; Mental Retardation; Preschool Education; Preschool Evaluation; Program Evaluation; Speech Handicaps + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Datenverarbeitung; Pedagogical diagnostics; Pädagogische Diagnostik; Hearing impairment; Hörbehinderung; Individualisierte Ausbildung; Informationsverbreitung; Geistige Behinderung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Speech handicap; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicps; Language impairments; Sprachbehinderung
Abstract	The School District of Philadelphia, through its Prescriptive Educational Approach to Children with Handicaps (PEACH) Project, funded under E.S.E.A. Title VI-B, provided diagnostic, referral, and prescriptive educational services for preschool children (between 3 and 4.7 years). Priority was given to those children most severely handicapped and closest to school age. A public awareness campaign was conducted to locate and identify handicapped children and to inform parents of the services available. Children were evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of specialists; an Individual Education Program was then written. The staff assumed responsibility for finding an appropriate placement for each child diagnosed as handicapped, in a preschool agency-sponsored program; home instruction; a Family Service program; or the Preschool Speech and Hearing program. Six of the seven major objectives of the PEACH program were fully implemented. Problems included the cumbersome manual system of storing data on the children, and the low staff productivity in handling cases. Extensive information is provided regarding goal accomplishment, and a large number of memoranda, press releases, forms, and activity reports are appended. (Author/CTM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC