Alternatives to the present system of specialized service agencies for the blind in Australia are suggested as ways of changing stereotypes about blind persons and providing better services to the visually handicapped. (Author/GW)

Integration of remedial pupils and staff into the regular school system is discussed. The article is based on a survey of administrators and remedial teachers in comprehensive schools in England. (CD)

The influence of students' efforts, school, teachers' expectations, sex, handicapped status, grade, teachers, and race on self-concept of handicapped and nonhandicapped children in mainstreamed physical education classes was investigated. A stepwise multiple regression indicated student expression of effort and school and teachers' expectation of…

Suggests classroom activities to prepare unexceptional students to accept and understand individual differences and individual treatment in a mainstreamed classroom through open, active discussions about their attitudes and feelings. (DMM)

This program at New York School for the Deaf serves students of average intelligence and slow reading ability between ages 15 and 21. The program gives students both the expertise available in a school for the handicapped and a practical education combined with a mainstreamed vocational setting and appropriate career guidance. (PB)

The case study describes how the positive behavior changes of a mainstreamed second grader with severe emotional problems made similarly positive changes in the attitudes and actions of two teachers toward mainstreaming. It is proposed that positive commitments from regular class teachers toward mainstreaming can be fostered by helping them…

Questionnaires completed by 51 state administrators of exceptional students indicated few programs being planned or in existence to compensate regular class teachers for additional responsibilities in mainstreaming. A chart depicts state responses in terms of additional pay, compensatory time, lower pupil-teacher ratio, lower adult-student ratio.…

Forty-seven pairs of learning disabled (LD) and non-LD junior high students were observed in their regular classrooms using a continuous recording system. Results show that LD adolescents do not appear to be social isolates in the classroom. (Author)