Classrooms across the country are discovering the power of service-learning--the ideal way to help students develop social and academic skills while giving back to their community. Now for the first time, there's a practical how-to guide on using serving-learning to promote inclusion and differentiate instruction for students with and without…

A social skills training program used with 40 New Zealand adolescents with mild mental retardation found that, while the subjects showed modest gains in the specific skills taught by the program and there was some evidence of generalization from the training to school contexts, the subjects' self-perception did not change. (Author/MSE)

The purpose of the project was to develop and evaluate a training program in self regulatory skills with approximately 40 trainable mentally retarded students (TMR) (mean age 18 years) and to determine the effect of the acquired self regulatory skills on task performance and self concept. In Phase 1, six preliminary studies attempted to determine…