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Initiatives in Religious Education for Handicapped Children, Adolescents and Adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

B. D. Briese*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Special Education, BCAE, Mount Gravatt Campus and Crossroads Special Education Task Group

Extract

The Crossroads Special Education Task Group was formed in Queensland early in 1983 at the request of the Joint Board of Christian Education of Australia and New Zealand. Crossroads is an Australia wide, inter-church organisation which promotes the welfare of handicapped persons through:

  • (a) regular club programs which have spirtual, recreational, educational and social aspects;

  • (b) holiday activities under structured leadership and help from “enablers”;

  • (c) special assistance to handicapped persons in church and Sunday school;

  • (d) provision of religious education programsin State special schools;

  • (e) chaplaincies to sheltered employment centres and institutions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1984

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