This guide book is intended for special education teachers who need suggestions for implementing career education ideas into existing curricula and regular education teachers of the mainstreamed handicapped who need suggestions for adapting their regular career education offerings for their handicapped students. The first three sections of the…

This guide addresses steps that must be taken at various administrative levels and at the course or program level in order to successfully implement P.L. 94-142 (see CE 024 664). The guidelines, called action steps, are organized and discussed in the following categories: central administrative action; area administrative action; building level…

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 was intended to eliminate the need for disabled children to go to court to obtain equal access to public education. Despite the measure's intentions, court activity has continued since the measure went into effect in 1977, not only to resolve issues that had been litigated prior to the act's…

Proceedings of a conference to help educators and other professionals create positive student attitudes among nonhandicapped students toward handicapped students are summarized. Preliminary sessions focused on definitions of mainstreaming, public attitudes, barriers to attitudinal change, and ways to begin and maximize effective interaction in the…

The ten articles in this journal issue are intended to help English teachers deal with the problems posed by mainstreaming handicapped children into their classrooms. The first and second articles suggest ways of meeting the special needs of mainstreamed students and the third discusses the use of a videotaping activity as a reward for learning…

In 11 brief sections this document overviews provisions for preschool education in the Federal Republic of Germany. Topics discussed include the needs of young children; education from birth to 3 years and from 3 to 6 years of age; and the history of kindergartens. Problems of child-rearing and programs for parent education, as well as creches,…

Handicapped and non-handicapped preschool children were observed in order to study the impact of mainstreaming on the preschool handicapped child. Ten observational records were collected on each of 24 non-handicapped and four physically handicapped children in three mainstreamed classrooms. Twelve physically handicapped children in two…

To determine how many emotionally disturbed (ED) Iowa students were reintegrated into regular classrooms, by what criteria, and by whom, a study of ED teachers from 76 public school programs serving this population was undertaken. Results of the questionnaire showed that 85.5% of respondents worked in school districts with over 3,000 students,…

Intended for regular class teachers, the booklet provides information to aid in mainstreaming the mentally retarded (MR) child. Sections address the following areas: reasons for mainstreaming the MR student; definition of mental retardation; assessment (areas of assessment and suggested evaluation measures, the assessment team); suggested readings…

The content of this report provides a summary of activities of the Northeast Regional Deans' Grants Meeting. In addition to information on proceedings and activities, four papers presented at the meeting on the subject of evaluation of Deans' Grants projects are reproduced in their entirety. (JD)

The described inservice teacher education program is designed for elementary school teachers who wish to develop skills in handling hearing impaired students who are mainstreamed into their classroom. The scope and sequencing of program topics is outlined. Activities and resources involved in the program are described. Ordering information for…

The report presents an executive summary of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of a comparative study to assess the services being provided to handicapped preschool children by Project Head Start and non-Head Start programs. This study is Phase I of a larger study of the process of mainstreaming handicapped children in Head Start…

A 1 year ethnographic study was conducted to investigate the possibility and better understand the process of role transformation of the school psychologist during organizational change, specifically regarding the delivery of mainstream services to special needs children under Chapter 766 (Massachusetts' law which mandates procedural safeguards…

The position statement identifies seven problem areas in respect to the mainstreaming movement and gives the position of the National Association of Retarded Citizens on each. The positions focus on the following issues: (1) a definition of mainstreaming, (2) the need to implement mainstreaming in carefully planned stages, (3) the view that…

The authors discuss four strategies used by different countries to effect mainstreaming. Examined are the Resource Room Model from the United States, the Educational Pairing Model from Denmark, the Consultant Teacher Model from Norway, and the Combined Services Model from Poland. It is held that the ultimate plan for integration of the Handicapped…