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Since public schools are now mandated to provide a large and varied range of clinical services to handicapped school children, a survey was conducted of 26 interdisciplinary UAF clinics and hospitals in regard to the types of services which they offer to public school children and the extent to which coordination of such services has been developed. Results suggest that diagnosis or evaluation is the primary reason for referral but that a wide variety of community outreach services are both requested by the schools and offered by interdisciplinary hospital and clinic staff. These services are described and the implications for future interagency cooperation are discussed.
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This project was supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Special Education.
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Rotberg, J., Forness, S.R., Lynch, E.W. et al. Status of interagency cooperation between interdisciplinary clinics or hospitals and the public schools. Child Psych Hum Dev 12, 153–159 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706068
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706068