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Donahue, Mavis L.; Pidek, Catherine M. – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1993
Oral paraphrase is presented as an informal and versatile strategy for assessing and enhancing listening comprehension in mainstreamed students with language/learning disabilities. Approaches to assessing the listening comprehension demands of individual classrooms and using various dimensions of paraphrasing to enhance language comprehension and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment, Intervention, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedSuarez, Maria – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2000
This study evaluated a social skills training program with 18 deaf children (ages 9 to 13) in mainstream settings in three elementary schools in the Canary Islands. It found the intervention improved students' social problem solving skills and their assertive skills. However, no significant differences in social or academic integration as judged…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Deafness, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMcCloskey, Mary Lou; Quay, Lorene C. – Elementary School Journal, 1987
Many teachers have negative attitudes towards mainstreaming handicapped students. This study examines an intervention teaching method and teachers' attitudes. Results indicate that regardless of treatment, student teachers' attitudes will change in the direction of their classroom teachers' attitude. (JS)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Elementary Education
Fitzgerald, Nicholas B. – 1985
An observational study of classroom behavior was made to identify competencies and contexts of social interaction influencing the development of friendship among preschool children attending an integrated special education classroom. Subjects were six boys and four girls whose ages ranged from 3 to 6 years. Two of the children, a 4-year-old girl…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Competence, Context Effect
Download full textCouncil for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. – 1988
This conference brought together directors of research grants and research-based contracts funded by the Division of Innovation and Development of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS). The proceedings contain copies of three speeches given at the conference, along with transcripts of the question-and-answer sessions…
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Disabilities, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Brady, Michael P.; And Others – 1988
The Middle School Study of Mainstreamed Students sought to establish a foundation for interdisciplinary research on middle school mainstreaming by merging teacher effectiveness and special education practices. The study examined teaching behaviors through macro (classroom) and micro (individual student) analyses of classroom interactions, to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities
