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. 16 .....DOCUMENT RESUME , ! , ' Et 11* op A EAb07.756 4 ---4-- . AUTHOR . Johnson, Richard A., Ed.,; And Others ' .TITLE ',Special Educati9n Leadership Series: VQiume III:. The , Right TO an Education Mandate. Impl,icatiOns fox Special Education Leadership Personnel; - INSTITUTION Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Leadership Training Inst./Special Education. sNgxs AGENCY _Minneapolis Public Schools,. M nn. Special Education . Div. I 1 . PUB DATE 14 N. NOTE , 235p.; Proceedirigs of the Annual Invitational Special Education Leapership Conference.(3cd, Minneapolis; .Minpesota, November-1973);-For related document,see EA 007 755 . AVAILABLE FROM Audio-Visual LibrtrY Service, University of 'Minnesota, .33040 University AlVenue, S.'it., -746 %Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414 j$3.95) EDRS PRICE MF$d.76 HC-$12.05 Plus Postage DESCPIFTORS Change agents; 'Change Strategies; *Court Litigation; Educational Accountability; *Equal Education; Exceptional Students; *Handic4pped Children; Labeling (of Persons); *Leadership Training; Performance Based_ Fd4cation; Program Improvement; *Special Education; Special Education ,Teachers; Student Needs ABSTRACT / Papers presented at this conference tellate to redefining conceptual and program parameters for educating handicapped children.and-serving handicapped young persons previously unserved or underserved by the public schools. The papers address critical issues., legislation and litigation, program implications, and program practiCes. 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Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made ftom the original. , * ********************************************************************** a. 4 pER,,,,sso,,,i0 REPPOOME THIS COPY RIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY U S DEPARTMENT QF HEALTH EDUCATION WELFARE NATIONAL NST.TuTE OF EORCATION L DOCLME .HAS BEEN REPRO v v f EO E )(AC-0, .S RECEivE0 FROM TO ERIC Apo oRGArozATIoNs OPERATING CD 'HE PERSON OR 010.-,AN ZAT,ONORGiN UNDEb AGREEMENTS 0,17. THE NATIONAL IN Ns ,T poNTS OF vIENOR OPINIONS DO NOT NECESSARILY PEPRE STITUTE OF EDUCATION FURTHER REPRO , ,FFCIAL NATIONAL INSTCFUTE OF DUCTIO4 1,61SIOE INS ERIC SYSTEM gt r'""i EL POStrON OR POLICY QUIRES PERMISSION OF. THE CoPyRIGHT- OWNER , .I. t © 1974 by the University of Minnesota Library of Congress Cataloging in PublicationData Invitational Special Education Leaders12ip Conference, 3d, Minpe-s apolis, 1973. ,- The right to an education mandate. (Special education leadership sues ; v.3) . "Sponsored by the Special Education Division'of the Minne- apolis Public Schools.' . 1. Handicappedchildren /Education UnitedStates-Congresses. 2 Handicapped children,,Ldw and legislation UnitedStates--Con 4 gresses. I. Johnsoniflicharx1 A., ed.II.Gross, Jerry C., ed. IIIWeatherman, Richard F., ed.IV. Minneapolis. Public Schools. Special Education DiVision. V. Title. VI. Series. (-.. ,/ Lc4031. 1973 ' 371.9'0973 74-26763 ' /- Published and distFibuted for the editors by the Audio Visual Library Service, University of Minnesota, 3300 UhiveriitY Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, Mn. 55414 ii 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. Table of contents iii Acknowledgments . 1 Preface. ... 3 . 1 . Volume 111 . Thb Right Ao an Education Mandate Part I. Critical Issues t 5 2 qducating AllHagdi.capped Children CriticalIssues and \Problems Duane J. Matthies . 7 . A Basic Kit tb Confront the Human Disposal Authority, De partmentbf Subnormal Affairs of the Monolith, in This Land of Opportunity . Burton Blatt .-i '15 Safeguarding the Rights Kid Welfare of Students in the leple-.' .. - mentatibn of Recent Mandates . 100 Wblf Wolfensberger - ..- - 49 Part II. Legislation and Litigation Recent Development in the .Courts Alan Abeson 69 , Recent Legislative Developments Fred Wientraub 81 Part III. Implications for Programs 91 A-- The Right to Education Mandate. Implications epr Training_ Maynard R. Reynolds 93 Right to an_Education Mandate. Impact on University Training- Programs Jerry Chaffin' , 121 Nat:onal Leadership Efforts. Bearing Upon Right to Educatidn James R. Yates , 126 Right to an Edudation Mandate. Impact on Professional Stan- dardg. William, Johnson' 133 , iii , 1 . Part IVPrograms and Practices . ... .'`.143 The Armatage Learning Center A Special Public' School for Severely Learning-Disabled Youth 'N Marie Blackburn and Priscillaee'ncer e 145 The UNISTAPS Project ,A Family Oriented Infant/PreschooPly ... Program forHearingImpaired Children,. 0-4, and Their Parents . Winifred H. Northcott and Jayne V. Nelson 161 Emerson School anSheltering Arms Program for Severely r 'Retarded i , . Harriet E. Blodgett and S. Sajjad Haider 177 Day Cafie fratning Program for the Severely Multiple Impaired Beekman Center 'Lansing, Michigan David L. Haarer and Fred B. McGlone, MI ,. 189 Advocating. for Youth in MinneapoliS Public SchoolsThe Youth Advocate Corp A Ida-Lorraine lkild6rson and Keith Kromer 198 Performance Based Training for Teachers of Moderately and severely Retarded (TMR) Pupils e E2Shaw Waltz and John E. Rynders 211 Part V. Rea6tion to Papers 4 229 A Mosquito in a Nudist Colony: Reaction to Papers Melton C. Martinson _/' 231 197 Conference Staff . 241 0 .,. 7 A ...1 iv i t) r < A' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The publication of /his third volume of the Leadership- Series in Special Education, as well as the continued Successful presentation of the Spepal Education Leadership Conferences, is a credal() the Boarfc. - of Efiucation and Superintendent John B. Davis Jr of the t.4rineapo'- 14s Public Schools. Support o1 thrs effort is indic.ativeof the commit merit- to the development of quality special tducat,onpfograms the leadership of the Minneapolis Public Schools 4 We are grateful to Drk Donn Hoffman for serving as liaison with4' the many contributors to this volume. We wish also to acknowlede the support of our-secietarial and ,,elerical personnel who have assisted in the prbduction oLtht0ocu- ment, especially Mrs Betty Lang who acted 8 conference itcrfitary, .::* Once again, we are inNbted to the Minneapolis Association for Children with Learning Disabilities whose members provided registra- ,tion assistance and information to conference participwa. , 4. - r 4404 4t4 4 - ra II:11S" '4 1 t 1 PREFACE A This book Contdins. the proceedings ofvtlle third AnnudlI nvitai tiondl Special Educdtion Leadership ConferenceThis conference, sponsored by the Special Educa`tion Division of the Minnedpolis Pub Iii, Schools, WdS held in November 1973 in Minneapolis, MinnesOta ._, 0o chairmen for this conference were.. Dr. Richard Johns,pn, Min nedpblis Director of Special Educatidn, and Dr Jerry Gross, Assiitant Director Dr Richard Wedthermdo, Associdte Professor of Special Education and Administration at the University_of Mirtthesota, served as Conference Coordinator. \ -, ±-1. The purpose of these annudt leadership conferences is to estab 'lish d continuing forum to stimulate open dialogue among special edutdtion leader-s#if.1personnel from the pubhc schools, university training programs, and state education agencies. The central theme of this confereace was The Right to an Educe- II an Mandate for handicapped children_Frimary focus was placed on issues, policies, and oractites related to redefining our conceptual and program parameters, and to the opportunity of_serving hands, capped young persons prevtously unserved or under-served by the public schools Leadership personnel from the schools, frOm training programs, from State and Federal agencies, and from consumer groups Nye joint responsibility for developing .programs capable of serving dIFIKeThandicapped, and all of these groups were represented by conference faculty and participants. This volume, volume III of the Leadership, Series in Special Educa- tion, represents the collected papers of conference faculty and con tains contributions which address critical issues, legislation and lit] gation, program implications, and program practices. .. llogi. .1 IK ,i 4 tb I. r c ik Si 3 i .. 'If .0, : V . - parrIt I criticM issues /. ., 4 .1. I s #. 1 t . 1 a ... ..0 ...v. %. 0 EDUCATING/ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN---, CRITICAL 'ISSUES AND PROBLEMS _._. Duane JMatt hies Deputy.Commissioner for School Systems United States Office of Education The purpose of this paper is .to discuss the changing Federal role, and relationships with State and local education agencies which may v emerge from Congress at this session I would classify this 4kan encouraging .report, on the basis of pre liminary actions taken to extend and amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. We are optimispe that Congress wiJI take significant steps this year to simplify the complex structure of Fed- eral aid. and to give State and local agencies new flexibility and re sponsibility to deal with their Own educational problems and prior ities.If these steps are taker{, the Administration will have accom s plished the major goals we sought in our dwn proposals. The prospects are good, therefore, that the long stalemate between the. Congress 'and the Administration over the funding of education programs

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