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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Language: | en |
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1977
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED149492 |
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- The White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals: Volume II. Final Report. Part C. May 23-27, 1977. Conference Reports Disabilities Economic Factors Educational Needs Federal Legislation Handicapped Children Health Minority Groups Needs Assessment Social Problems The three-part final report documents recommend recommendations and resolutions and summarizes the work of more than 700 delegates to the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals, May 23-27, 1977, in Washington, D.C. It is emphasized that the primary purpose of the conference was to give persons with mental and/or physical disabilities an opportunity to voice their concerns and vote on recommended solutions to problems. Part C reprints verbatim the recommendations approved during the conference and the resolutions affirmed in a poll taken by mail after the conference. Approzimately 150 recommendations and resolutions are listed for the following issues: health, education, social, special, and miscellaneous concerns. Resolutions cover such areas as national health insurance and planning, early identification and diagnostic services, and screening programs, (health concerns); preschool evaluation services, funds for vocational education, and enforcement of Education For All Handicapped Children Act (educational concerns); developing positive attitudes, portrayal of handicapped in advertising, and recreational programs and facilities (social concerns); Section 501 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, affirmative action and employment, and sheltered workshops (economic concerns); library services, mainstreaming, and sexuality of handicapped individuals (special concerns); and commendation of the Carter administration, exclusion of alcoholism and drug abuse from handicapping conditions, and parent participation (miscellaneous concerns). (DB)