The Virginia Statewide Program To Endorse Teachers in Severe and Profound Handicaps was a 5-year personnel preparation project which selected and trained teachers currently unendorsed but employed to teach students with severe disabilities in schools across Virginia. Participating universities included the University of Virginia (uva), George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University, with Virginia Polytechnical Institute offering practica....

This document summarizes the final accomplishments of the Supportive School and Community Education Program (ssce), which was designed to prepare supportive educators for students with low incidence and severe disabilities. The ssce was awarded a federal grant for a four-year period, 1992-96, to expand an established preservice preparation program. The program targeted recruitment among two groups: (1) educators working in general or special education...