Children who are blind are among the most easily mainstreamed of children with handicaps. The child with visual impairments is in need of an educational program which will meet all the students' needs, including those resulting from the visual condition. (JN)

The hearing impaired child has been the most neglected exceptional student in the public day school system. Mainstreaming efforts should consider the individual educational needs of both severely and less severely hearing impaired students. (JN)

Because the physically disabled student must adjust to his/her inclusion into a nonhandicapped environment and to large group instruction simultaneously, the preparation of inservice teachers and nonhandicapped students should acquaint them with the physical, psychosocial, and academic factors associated with handicaps. (JN)

Enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act stipulated that the mentally retarded, among other groups of handicapped children, be educated in the least restrictive environment. Specialized instruction and related service needs are crucial components to be considered in designing an adequate educational program for exceptional…

The teacher in the mainstreamed classroom should focus on three considerations: (1) the importance of social integration; (2) the importance of academic discrepancy between the handicapped and nonhandicapped as a factor in the decision to mainstream; and (3) the importance of individual instruction to the success of the mainstreaming program. (JN)

Although the behaviorally disordered pupil may be among the most difficult to successfully reintegrate into the regular classroom, procedures do exist for facilitating this process. There are three kinds of integration: temporal integration or time stipulations; instructional integration; and social integration which defines acceptance by…