Community Educational Resource Center.

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Title: Community Educational Resource Center.
Authors: Robbins, Michael J., Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 19
Publication Date: 1972
Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC.
Contract Number: OEC-0-9-252901-4539(608)
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Community Programs, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child Education, Program Descriptions, Resource Materials
Abstract: Described is the community educational resource center (CERC), defined to be a multipurpose, community-based facility that delivers a coordinated system of special educational resources, human and nonhuman, to instructional and administrative personnel confronted by educationally handicapped children. Covered in the description are program need in the education of educationally handicapped children, program purpose of improving delivery of educational services to educationally handicapped children, service activities of diagnostic and treatment intervention, inservice training for school personnel, development and diffusion of the resource system, management, ongoing evaluation, program components, financial policy, and personnel including educational strategists, resource teachers, training consultant, educational technologists, school psychologists and related remediation personnel, and resource center coordinator. Concluding the paper is a discussion of CERC as a community-based facility. (CB)
Journal Code: RIEOCT1972
Entry Date: 1972
Accession Number: ED063701
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Described is the community educational resource center (CERC), defined to be a multipurpose, community-based facility that delivers a coordinated system of special educational resources, human and nonhuman, to instructional and administrative personnel confronted by educationally handicapped children. Covered in the description are program need in the education of educationally handicapped children, program purpose of improving delivery of educational services to educationally handicapped children, service activities of diagnostic and treatment intervention, inservice training for school personnel, development and diffusion of the resource system, management, ongoing evaluation, program components, financial policy, and personnel including educational strategists, resource teachers, training consultant, educational technologists, school psychologists and related remediation personnel, and resource center coordinator. Concluding the paper is a discussion of CERC as a community-based facility. (CB)