Resources for Handicapped Individuals Act

Resources for Handicapped Individuals Act - Title I: Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youth and Adults - Establishes a Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults to: (1) provide specialized intensive services for deaf-blind persons; (2) train personnel to provide such services; and (3) conduct applied research, development, and demonstrations relating to communication techniques, teaching methods, aids, and devices, and delivery of services.

Requires an annual audit of the Center. Directs the Secretary of Education to ensure that: (1) Center service and training programs are monitored regularly; and (2) Center operation is evaluated annually, with written reports to the President and the Congress submitted by specified deadlines.

Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for Center operation and maintenance in accordance with guidelines or regulations prescribed by the Secretary.

Defines "Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults" to mean that facility and its affiliated network established pursuant to an agreement approved in 1969 by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and continued pursuant to specified provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Repeals such provisions of such Act in title IV of this Act.)

Provides that nothing in this Act shall in any way cause to affect or modify any existing or future agreement between any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality and the Industrial Home for the Blind, Inc., or its successors or assignees, with respect to the Helen Keller National Center for the Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults.

Title II: Instructional Media for the Handicapped - Directs the Librarian of Congress to establish a loan service of capitioned films and educational media for handicapped individuals, their parents, and others directly involved in activities for the advancement of the handicapped. Authorizes the Librarian to: (1) acquire such films, educational media, and equipment; (2) provide, by grant or contract, for film captioning, for distribution of media and equipment to State schools and other appropriate local or regional agencies, for production and distribution of such media, and for research and training in their use; (3) utilize other governmental agencies' facilities and services; and (4) accept gifts, contributions, and voluntary and uncompensated services of individuals and organizations.

Authorizes the Librarian to enter into specified types of agreements with institutions of higher education, State and local educational agencies, or other appropriate nonprofit agencies for the establishment and operation of centers on educational media and materials for the handicapped. Directs the Librarian to give preference to the proposals of institutions and agencies which: (1) have demonstrated the capabilities necessary for development and evaluation of such media; and (2) can serve the educational technology needs of the Model High School for the Deaf. Directs the Librarian to report annually to the Congress on the activities of the centers on educational media and materials for the handicapped.

Authorizes appropriations in each fiscal year as necessary to carry out this title.

Title III: Regional Postsecondary Educational Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or contracts with institutions of higher education, including junior and community colleges, vocational and technical institutions, and other appropriate nonprofit educational agencies, for the development and operation of specially designed or modified programs of vocational, technical, postsecondary, or adult education for deaf or other handicapped indviduals. Directs the Secretary to give priority to programs: (1) serving multistate regions or large population centers; (2) adapting existing programs of vocational, technical, postsecondary,or adult education to the special needs of handicapped individuals; and (3) designed to serve areas where a need for such services is clearly demonstrated.

Directs the Secretary to conduct, directly or by contract, a continuing evaluation of the effectiveness of each program assisted under this title.

Authorizes appropriations in each fiscal year as may be necessary to carry out this title. Directs the Secretary, in each fiscal year after September 30, 1982, to assure that each recipient of funds in FY 1982 under regional educational program provisions of the Education of the Handicapped Act which the Secretary determines will provide effective services for that fiscal year will continue to receive financial assistance for that fiscal year.

Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which relate to the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults.

Repeals provisions of the Education of the Handicapped Act which relate to instructional media for the handicpped and to regional education programs.