Identifies some challenges faced by teachers of handicapped students, as well as common problems encountered by the students themselves. Makes practical suggestions for improving the educational experiences of physically disabled students. (CAM)

The English study monitored the first stages of an integration plan involving nine handicapped 12-year-old boys. The study pointed out the need for coordination between the special school and the special unit of the mainstreamed school and for an adequate curriculum for the students at the mainstreamed school. (PHR)

The multimodal model of counseling has made contributions in two areas: (1) improving the counseling of children, adolescents, and adults; and (2) improving educational processes of various kinds including mainstreaming, psychological education, parent and teacher effectiveness training, career education, and assessment. (RC)

Describes an inservice teacher education model used to aid teachers who work with mainstreamed special needs students. Also presented is an evaluation of the model. (LRA)

Knowledgeable teachers, enhanced environments, appropriate programs and materials, appropriate technology, adequate assessment, and sophisticated notions of individualization are suggested as factors that will provide a "least restrictive" environment for mainstreamed nonverbal handicapped children, as required by the Education for Handicapped…

A survey of reading teachers and Title I program directors in Kansas indicates that 50 percent of the former and 90 percent of the latter do not judge themselves adequately prepared to teach handicapped children under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (CJ)

The author cites these benefits of music to the visually handicapped student: physiological music activities enhance psychomotor coordination and promote relaxation and the ability to cope with frustration; participation in music events encourages interaction with sighted peers. Organizations providing music instructional materials for the…

The authors discuss the uses of portable videotape recorders (VTRs) and portable teletypewriters (TTYs) in teaching English to mainstreamed deaf junior high school students. The role of VTRs and TTYs in bridging the gap between students' semantic intent and standard English syntax is discussed. (CL)

Among findings were that primary and middle grade teachers were more willing to integrate handicapped students than were teachers of grades 7 and 8 and that those teachers who had taken courses in special education were more willing to accept handicapped students in their classes than were those who had not taken such courses. (SBH)

Students in integrated classrooms were found to have significantly more positive attitudes toward physically disabled persons than students in nonintegrated classrooms. Females in both classroom types had significantly more positive attitudes toward the physically disabled than did their male counterparts. (Author/DS)

The author examines frequently-voiced objections to mainstreaming educable mentally retarded (EMR) students at the secondary level. These focus on the inability of school structures and curriculum to adapt to EMR students' special needs. He finds in these objections not a case against mainstreaming, but a case for school change. (SJL)

This article discusses changes in teacher education, administrative practices, and governmental actions that are needed to make art an integral part of special education. (SJL)

Project STREAM (Special Training in Remedial Education Activities for Mainstreaming), a program providing regular elementary teachers with skills to individualize programs for handicapped children in their regular classrooms, is described. (PHR)

The problems facing an epileptic eight-year-old girl following a seizure in the classroom are discussed. The girl's epilepsy, in this instance, served to exaggerate an already existing conflict between the mother and father. Family counseling was implemented to help resolve the problem. (PHR)

The major conclusions drawn are that educational policy in British Columbia is in need of change, and that the forces needed to effect this change are emerging. (Author/DLS)