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Mainstreaming Secondary Students: A Peer Tutoring Model.
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McCarthy, Richard M.; Stodden, Robert A. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1979
A student tutoring program in which nonhandicapped secondary students worked with their handicapped peers is described as a successful experiment in reverse mainstreaming. (CL)
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Mainstreaming, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions
Adults Learn from Children.
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Andrews, Jean F.; Brame, Michael – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
The article describes a four-week summer course in which an eight-year-old prelingually deaf boy helped undergraduate students learn sign language and the students helped him learn English print word/phrase equivalents. (DB)
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Mainstreaming: A Model for Including Elementary Students in the Severely Handicapped Classroom.
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Almond, Patricia; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1979
Using the concepts of normalization, mainstreaming, and individualized instruction, a big brother/big sister program was developed in which 16 severely handicapped autistic children (4 to 15 years old) were tutored by nonhandicapped and educable mentally retarded elementary students. (CL)
Descriptors: Autism, Elementary Education, Normalization (Handicapped), Peer Relationship
Grandparents Read to Special Preschoolers.
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Jones, Clare B. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1986
Both senior volunteers and learning disabled preschool children benefitted from the Grandparents Read to Me Project in Lakewood, Ohio. Seniors rarely missed a session and the children began to select books over toys during free time and ask their parents to buy books and read to them at home. (CB)
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Learning Disabilities, Older Adults, Preschool Education