The article describes learning activities and resource materials that may be helpful in helping preschool children develop positive attitudes toward handicapped children. (CL)

Suggestions for using drama to help students learn about disabilities are given by a professional theatrical group in which actors portray disabled people and answer questions in character. Steps for developing a class skit about a person with a disability and for starting a similar acting troupe are given. (DB)

Presented are suggestions for simulations for students in grades 3-12, designed to promote an understanding of how individuals with handicaps cope and adapt to their disability. Simulation ideas include toothbrushing while blindfolded and dressing with socks covering the hands. A participant's reaction form and an observer's reaction form are…

A display of items and materials (such as prostheses, hearing aids, and braille material) can help nonhandicapped students and teachers appreciate similarities and differences of handicapped students. The development of one such Handicap Awareness Showcase is detailed. (CL)

Lessons designed to help elementary students understand disabilities and disabled persons were successful in promoting understanding and positive attitudes. Lessons focus on such topics as individual differences, people in wheelchairs, and hearing and visual impairments. (Sample lessons are presented for grades K-6.) (CL)

The author describes lessons provided for regular class elementary students to help them understand disabilities and disabled persons. Objectives, materials needed, and activities are outlined for six lessons focusing on the following topics: individual differences, wheelchairs; devices that help people walk; amputation, artificial limbs, and…

To identify age-appropriate recreation and leisure activities for students with severe handicaps, 142 nondisabled seventh graders were surveyed. The survey identified favorite independent activities, activities with friends, activities with family, school activities, home activities, community activities, magazines, music groups, card and board…

Evaluation of Count Me In, a disability awareness program presented in schools by parents of disabled children, revealed consistently positive and substantial attitude changes in nondisabled students and increased teacher ability to deal with the social and emotional effects of mainstreaming. (CL)

A teacher of deaf students discusses ways in which she used simulation activities to increase the students' understanding of children with additional handicaps. A second article provides an annotated list of 45 mainstreaming resources for the teacher and the nonhandicapped child, as well as of children's books about handicaps. (CL)

To improve resource room students' attitudes toward education, a teacher identified model special education students who could supply peer support and asked them to serve on a panel. The panel responded to students' questions about problems associated with being in resource classes and about setting and achieving reasonable goals. (JDD)

Suggestions for including critical elements of multicultural education in the special education curriculum are offered, including employing student-centered assessment strategies, using culturally responsive instruction, transforming the curriculum, teaching students to accept and appreciate individual differences, teaching social responsibility,…