The Preschool Program, Center on Human Development at the University of Oregon is described in terms of objectives, rationale, structure, staff, curriculum design, parent involvement, support services, training and dissemination, and research and evaluation. The project has accommodated five major shifts in generally held concepts about young…

The report describes a project to train 35 regular class teachers, principals, and counselors to work with handicapped children. Training included 5 seminars on such topics as attitudinal factors, early identification, individualized education programs, and working with parents; monthly followup sessions; on site consultations; and preparation of…

Class schedules of 458 handicapped students attending 11 comprehensive high schools in eight school districts were reviewed to examine patterns of enrollment of handicapped students at the secondary level. Academic, nonacademic, vocational, and extracurricular involvement were noted, as well as degree of integration experience by students. Among…

The participant's manual contains activity direction for a teacher workshop focusing on the interrelationship between regular and special education, service delivery systems for intervention, and attitude of acceptance toward exceptional children. Activities correspond to the ten workshop objectives: to define the concept of mainstreaming, to…

The New Jersey Mainstream Inservice Project is described as a response to the mandate of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) for a comprehensive system of personnel development. The model stresses collaboration between the state department of education, 50 local school districts, and five institutions of higher education…

The L.I.F.E. (Learning Is for Everyone) project conducted by the Altoona Public Library from September 1975 to June 1977 sought to increase library services for the mentally handicapped of all ages. The L.I.F.E. collection of instructional materials includes toys, games, puzzles, books, magazines, records, multimedia kits, films, and conventional…

The implications of the Education for All Handicapped Children's Act are discussed as they affect the physical education teacher and the school administrator. The reasons for the enactment of Public Law 94-142 are outlined with specific emphasis on the need for physical activity for the handicapped. Concerns voiced by administrators and teachers…

The psychometric properties of the Mainstreaming Planning Inventory, a 40-item composite scale for measuring attitudes toward mainstreaming in education, were examined. Using the responses of 90 faculty in a college of education, of 261 undergraduate students in that college, and of 40 graduate students in education, alpha coefficient and factor…

The first of five reports from a project on mainstreaming the handicapped in vocational education presents a literature review drawn from an ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) search and responses by 16 secondary school curriculum leaders. The review touches upon the following topics: history, P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All…

A study of 24 handicapped students functioning on or below grade level was conducted to examine their reading achievement in three different reading programs. The students were placed in a remedial reading program, a reading program in a resource room, or a regular reading class depending on past grade achievements and recommendations of former…

The paper reviews a panel presentation on the essential components, policies, and strategies of a system for effectively moving emotionally disturbed (ED) students into least restrictive educational environments and maintaining them there. The first two parts of the session focused on a system for partially mainstreaming center school (seventh and…

THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS CHAPTERS ON IDENTIFYING THE HANDICAPPED, PLANNING FOR THE HANDICAPPED, THE ROLES OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS, ENRICHMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THROUGH THE ARTS, VOCATIONAL PLANNING, AND SOURCES OF HELP FOR THE HANDICAPPED. APPENDIXES PROVIDE--(1) GENERAL CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION AND DEFINITIONS OF VARIOUS HANDICAPPING…

This paper argues that the individualized education plan (IEP) mandated by Public Law 94-142 for mainstreamed handicapped students provides educators with a model for the future--when all students will have a right to an IEP. The paper first discusses the characteristics of an IEP, suggesting that it should ideally identify the child's present…

The first of a five part report on determining the least restrictive environment (LRE) placement of handicapped children summarizes findings from Annual Program Plans from 49 states and the District of Columbia for fiscal year 1978. The four purposes of the study were to obtain an overview of state policies regarding placement and related issues,…

Research was conducted to test six hypotheses about the social effectiveness of mainstreaming orthopedically handicapped children. Data were collected on the network structures of the social relationships among handicapped and nonhandicapped children in first, third, and sixth grade classrooms. The three samples of children used in the study…