During the spring of 1980, the Research Triangle Institute conducted a telephone survey to determine the extent to which a sample of 153 handicapped migrant children were identified as being handicapped-and had IEP's prepared-by schools in which they were enrolled from January 1978 through June 1979. The survey also was used to determine the extent to which IEP's and IEP-related information were transmitted between, and utilized by, staff of the various schools in which the students were enrolled. Findings indicate that: (a) the various schools in which students were enrolled were inconsistent in identifying these students as needing special education and in preparing their IEP's; (b) IEP's were developed less frequently for the most mobile than for the less mobile migrant students; (c) only a small percentage of the students had IEP's developed at more than one school; and (d) IEP's and IEP-related information were rarely transmitted between schools. © 1982, Council for Exceptional Children. All rights reserved.

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Education of Mentally Retarded Education, Special central nervous system geographic distribution Transients and Migrants handicapped child Adolescent United States Disabled Persons human school child migration legal aspect Child