REAUTHORIZATION OF THE DISCRETIONARY
PROGRAMS UNDER THE EDUCATION OF THE
HANDICAPPED ACT

HEARINGS HELD IN BOZEMAN, MT, ON AUGUST 27; WASHINGTON, DC, ON OCTOBER 22 AND 23, AND IN HONOLULU, HI, ON NOVEMBER 26, 1985

Serial No. 99-92

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For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office
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Anderson, Winifred Guthrie, Parent Education Advocacy Training

Center, Alexandria, VA; and S. James Rosenfeld, CRP Publishing Co.,

Alexandria, VA...

Cullar, Wendy M., chief, Bureau for Education for Exceptional Students,

Florida Department of Education; and Judy Eklund, school services

coordinator, special education unit, Vermont Department of Education..

Dunst, Carl, Ph.D., director, family, infant, and preschool programs,

Western Carolina Center; Brian A. McNulty, Ph.D., executive director

of special education, Colorado Department of Education; and Eugene

Edgar, Ph.D., professor, University of Washington .

Hagen, Michael, director, Montana Center for Handicapped Children,

Eastern Montana College; Katharin Kelker, parent; and Richard Van

Den Pol, director, Big Sky Preschool Program, University of Montana...

Johnson, Judy, representing Ed Argenbright, superintendent of public

instruction, State of Montana, accompanied by Gail Gray, director of

special education, State of Montana..

Kawatachi, Miles, director of special education, State of Hawaii

Richards, Robert, superintendent, Plentywood School District,

Plentywood, MT; and Doris Helge, director, National Rural Develop-

ment Institute, Western Washington University...

Rubin, Winona, executive director, Alu Like, Inc.; Myron Thompson,
trustee, Kamehameha School, Bishop Estate; and Britt Robillard, Social
Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa..

Scales, William R., Ph.D., assistant director, counseling center; director,

disabled student services, University of Maryland; Andrew Abramson,

student, the American University, Washington, DC; and Beth Stephens,

Ph.D., Director, Department of Defense Dependent schools......

Smith-Davis, Judy, editor, Counter-Point, Reno, NV; and G. Thomas Bel-
lamy, professor, University of Oregon.

Anderson, Dr. Dan, educational specialist, Hawaii Department of Special
Education, and Jo-Alyce K. Peterson, educational specialist, Hawaii

Department of Special Education......

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Prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials, etc.:

Abramson, Andy, prepared statement of...

Anderson, Dr. Dan, prepared statement of.

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Anderson, Winifred Guthrie:

Letter from Hon. Pat Williams, dated October 31, 1985, enclosing

questions...

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Letter to Hon. Pat Williams, dated November 12, 1985, enclosing

responses......

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Prepared statement on behalf of the Parent Educational Advocacy

Training Center..

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Bellamy, G. Thomas, Ph.D., University of Oregon, prepared statement of..

Cullar, Dr. Wendy M., chief, Bureau of Education for Exceptional Stu-
dents, Florida Department of Education, prepared statement of.

Dunst, Dr. Carl J., director, Family, Infant, and Preschool Program,

Western Carolina Center, Morganton, NC:

Letter from Hon. Pat Williams, dated October 31, 1985, enclosing

questions.....

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