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Presents information on the report titled `The Nineteenth Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, USDE, 1997),' published by the United States Department of Education. Identification of changes made to the format of the report; Examination of the subject matter contained in the report.

Presents information on various school services offered in the United States. Passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997; Information on American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) TeleSeminars.

Compiles news topics related to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Conference titled `Practical Solutions: Innovative Strategies for Successful Service Delivery in the Schools'; Topics of the ASHA Annual Convention in Seattle; Establishment of an adhoc committee.

Presents developments in language acquisition and hearing services. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) news and National Office activities; State requirements for school practice; Excerpts from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Law Reports.

Presents a summary of some of the Legislative Council (LC), Executive Board (EB), committee/board/council/ task force and National Office staff actions during the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association's (ASHA) 1994 Convention. Speech-language pathology and audiology service delivery in the schools;Effect of specialty recognition; Flexibility of school programs.

Presents excerpts from the Individuals With Disabilities Education Law Report. Continuum placements for certain students; Reimbursement for speech-language services at a private school; First part H class suit.

Presents American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) member Mary Ann O'Brien's testimony before the US Congress regarding the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Involvement of the Subcommittee on Select Education and Labor Committee; Discussion of cultural diversity.

Reports on developments in language, speech and hearing services in schools in the United States. Highlights of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) conference for school supervisors and administrators; Impact of the `health-security act' on special education; Naming of Thomas Hehir as director of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

Reports on developments in school services. Includes the American Speech and Hearing Association's call for membership; Appointment of Judith Heumann as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS); Merger of Disorders of Language Acquisition (Division 1) and Language Learning Education (Division 2).

Presents activities of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. Sponsorship of the 1993 Rolland J. Van Hattum Award; National Office and Committee Activities; Excerpts from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Law Report; Kids Count Data Book available.

Presents excerpts from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Law Reports. Use of funds for training program and materials on attention deficit disorder; Office of Special Education Programs policy letters; Grounds for the denial of assistance from a consultant teacher or teacher's aide to a student with a disability on the premised of a Catholic school.

Excerpts from an Individuals with Disabilities Law report. Placement of different disabilities in the same class; Obligation to offer special services on site parochial school; Policy guidance on LRE for students who are deaf.

States that the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association have joined other public and private health care organizations to sponsor the National Oral Cancer Awareness Program (NOCAP). Concerns raised by professionals relating to the prevention and detection of oral cancer; Names of some of the organizations; Details on videotapes produced; Where ASHA members can obtain more information; Contact point to order videotapes.

Announces the various sessions sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to school-based members. Sessions including the `Accountability, Outcomes and Functional Goals: A formula for Student Success,' and `Outcome Data: How to Get It, Why You Need It'; What is offered to participants; Who the sessions will be presented by; Location and time.

Focuses on the activities of speech-language pathologists in the schools. Includes monitoring, screening and IEP review activities; Conferring with teachers; Direct intervention.

Focuses on topics included in the survey conducted by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association of speech-language pathologists working full-time in school-based settings. Caseload characteristics; Service delivery models; Support personnel.

Reports on an increase in special education litigation. Attorneys' fees provided for in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IEDA); Liability and negligent actions; Prediction on the effects of the proposed reauthorization of IDEA with litigation on eligibility.

Presents several American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) workshops and teleseminars for 1995. Includes Audiology Forum: Auditory Integration Training: What is it? Who benefits? Why? on February 24; Bilingualism/Bilingualismo: What Every Clinician Needs to Know on February 24-25; Can You Relate Education Reform and Public Laws to Your Daily Work? on March 10.

Discusses collaborative solutions to school safety issues presented at a joint conference cosponsored by the National Alliance of Pupil Services Organizations (NAPSO) and the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP). Strategies to prevent or deal with school safety problems; American Speech-Hearing and Language Association (ASHA) as a member of NAPSO.

Surveys teachers and elementary students on their feedback about the use of soundfield classroom amplification. Impact on learning environment; Reduction of fatigue by the use of amplification; Students' preference for the soundfield.

Reports on the US Office of Special Education's emphasis on the duty of school districts to provide hearing aids to a child with disability, under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). Text of the Office's response to an inquiry by the superintendent of the Illinois School for the Deaf.

Lists some of the sessions for school speech-language pathologists at the ASHA Annual Convention, on November 18-21, 1994.

Reports on the holding of the Eight Annual Technology + Learning Conference, on October 25-29, 1994 in Dallas, Texas. Presenters; Sponsorship by the National School Boards Association's (NSBA) Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education; Contact information.

Reports on the Department of Education's issuance of final regulations for the Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities. Why the 1991 amendments to Part H of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) were enacted.

Lists concerns the staff of the RESNA Technical Assistance Project is most often asked to respond to. Lack of money to enable school officials to purchase assistive technology; Place for assistive technology on the IEP; Refusal of school officials to permit inclusion of assistive technology needs in the evaluation report.

Reports on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) Annual Convention on November 19-22, 1993 in Anaheim, California. Pre-convention conference for school supervisors and administrators; Guest speakers; Schedule of activities.

Presents excerpts from Individuals With Disabilities Education Law Reports in the United States.

Gives an invitation by the School Services Division staff to join them at the 1997 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Annual Convention on November 20-23, in Boston, Massachusetts. Details on the agenda; Availability of School Service Division staff at the convention.

Details the concern of Education Department officials over the reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. Potential threats to the bill; Problems faced by disability policy in 1996; Funding concerns; Reduction of paperwork as one of the concerns of the reauthorization.

Focuses on the 1996 Technology & Learning Conference scheduled on October 23-25, Dallas, Texas. Host and sponsor; Goal; Activities.

Reports that AT&T Corp. will offer free Internet access and discounted voice-messaging services to the public and private elementary and secondary schools in the United States.

Provides information on the 1996 Summer Schools Conference conducted by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association in Scottsdale, Arizona. Goals of the conference.

Reports on the Sertoma Communicative Disorders Program in the United States. Qualifications for the scholarship.

Reports on the funding of major education programs in the United States in 1996. Investment in education reform; Financial aid to college students.

Reports on the release of National Health and Education Consortium's `Hidden Casualties: The Relationship Between Violence and Learning.' Contact information.

Reports on the release of the US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics' 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading: A First Look--Findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Contact information.

Discusses an article published in the October 1994 issue of `Principal' magazine on the effectiveness of classroom amplification. Importance of scientific articles related to classroom amplification; Pilot study on classroom amplification in four first-grade classrooms; Changes in the students due to the use of classroom voice amplification.

Reports on the National Center for Learning Disabilities' (NCLD) sponsorship of a conference on September 20-21, 1994. Research funding and public policies related to learning disabilities; Review of the progress made in research in learning disabilities since 1987; Need for a coordinated federal agency approach in dealing with issues related to learning disabilities.

Reports on the success of the legislative conference sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and the American Association of Educational Services Agencies (AAESA). Elementary and Secondary Education Act; Significance of H.R. 6 on improving America's Schools Act.

Focuses on the issue of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) reauthorization in the United States. Invitation for public comments on the issue; Improvement of the results for students with disabilities in America's schools as a goal of the reauthorization of IDEA; Contact information.

Reports on the meeting of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association's (ASHA) executive board and leaders from special education administrator organizations. Selection of a National Office staff to discuss issues related with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); Qualified provider standards; Attendees.

Reports on the discrepancy in the population of deaf-blind students between the OSEP's official count and its mandated annual reported by program coordinators. Implications for the provision of hearing, speech and or language services.

Updates on the forum to develop a national agenda for achieving better results for children and youth with disabilities. Completion of a final report in June 1994.

Reports on the ASHA's exhibition at the annual convention of the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the National Schools Board Association.

Reports on President Bill Clinton's signing of Goals 2000: Educate America Act into law on March 31, 1994. Categories of national goals for education to be achieved by the year 2000; Call for ASHA members to get involve in local school reform committees to ensure that audiology and speech hearing language pathology services are include in school reform efforts.

Outlines assistive technology action steps in the Part H program of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Scheduling a meeting with the lead Part H agency staff to discuss the status of planning efforts; Finding out contents of the comprehensive plan; Considering cosponsorship of a conference for parents and professionals on early intervention and assistive technology.

Reports on the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the US Department of Education's announcement of additional 10 states and American territories that will receive funds under the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals With Disabilities Act of 1988. Includes Alabama; California; District of Columbia.

Presents information on assistive technology obtained from the RESNA Technical Assistance Project newsletter, `A.T. Quarterly,' Volume 4, No. 3. Development of the periodical under a contract with the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.