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Abstract

Project RETOOL is a federally funded project that offers training in the collaborative consultation model to post-doctorate leadership personnel. Collaborative consultation is an interactive program model that enables people with diverse expertise to generate creative solutions to mutually defined problems. Specifically, collaborative consultation promotes team ownership of the education of handicapped learners in the mainstream (Idol-Maestas, Nevin, & Paolucci-Whitcomb, 1984).

Project RETOOL consultants share knowledge, skills, and experience with faculty teams from institutions of higher education. In their respective geographic regions, these interdisciplinary teams then act as consultants to other faculty teams interested in providing instruction in collaborative consultation. In addition, the teams develop and expand the consultation skills of their own preservice graduate and undergraduate students. Finally, team members act as consultants to graduate and undergraduate students as they in turn develop programs to accelerate the academic and social progress of handicapped students.

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