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ERIC ED244450: Meeting Their Needs: Provision of Services to the Severely Emotionally Disturbed and Autistic. Conference Proceedings (Memphis, Tennessee, April 27-28, 1983).

The document contains the proceedings of a 1983 Tennessee conference on "Provision of Services to the Severely and Emotionally Disturbed and Austistic." Areas covered were identified as priority needs by Tennessee educators and emphasize the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of providing services. After the text of the keynote speech, papers are organized into the topics of (1) family, (2) behavioral change, (3) curriculum and assessment, and (4) program descriptions. The 24 major papers have the following titles and authors: "Meeting the Needs of Seriously Emotionally Disturbed/Behavior Disordered Students" (J. Grosenick); "Working with Parents of Adolescents Identified as Emotionally or Behaviorally Disordered" (R. McDowell); "Understanding the Diagnosis of Autism: Initial Counseling of Parents and Other Family Members" (S. Morgan); "Autism: A Family-Ecological System Perspective" (W. Haefele and S. Henggeler); "Children in Crisis--The Academic Effect" (J. Cook); "Burnout in Parents of Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents" (G. Morrison and M. Morrison); "The Role of Mental Health in the Ministry of the Church" (T. Covin); "The Use of 'Mild' Aversive Stimuli for Control o

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