Questionnaires (n=354) were received from surveyed regular education teachers of mainstreamed hearing impaired students. Analysis provided information about their attitudes toward hearing-impaired students, administrative support, and student socialization. Concerns about current practices in teacher training programs and existent approaches to…

This article describes one school's development of an alternative to conventional mainstreaming as an exercise in collaborative teaching and consultation for students with learning disabilities. Program design, a sample lesson, and evaluation/feedback are discussed. A timeline from a sample day and a list of collaborative teaching activities are…

Participant observation and interviews were employed in a first grade class in which a moderately mentally retarded boy participated on a part-time basis. Findings indicated significant discrepancies between the students' definitions of what it means to be part of first grade and the teacher's efforts to include Peter and present him as a member…

Former special education students (n=23) were surveyed to investigate the outcomes of mainstreaming urban youth with mild disabilities into regular vocational programs to prepare them for employment. All respondents had been employed in at least one job since graduation, but more were unemployed than employed. (Author/JOW)

A pilot telecommunications program for mainstreamed blind and visually impaired students, developed by Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services (Wantagh, New York), is described. Program components include online databases and electronic mail, a central support site, home sites for itinerant teachers, and district sites for students. (JDD)

The study compared the regular classroom behavior and teacher ratings of 17 learning-disabled (LD), 16 low average (LA), and 17 average (AV) children in grades 1-2 in 11 schools before and after LD placement in resource programs. Among findings were no preplacement behavior differences and more LD maladaptive behavior patterns at postplacement.…

Identifies some of the various characteristics learning-disabled children possess. Offers 11 ways for teachers to adapt the reading curriculum for the learning-disabled child in a regular classroom environment. (MG)

This article compares the ideals of the regular education initiative to provide services for learning-disabled students within the regular classroom to the ideals and resulting negative effects (e.g., homelessness) of the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill during the 1960s. Resistance to efforts to decrease or eliminate special education…

Focuses on ways to meet the facility needs of students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Provides a definition of inclusion; discusses some processes to design school environments that support a side range of student needs; and presents a process that will enable facility planning teams to move all students from self-contained classrooms…

Large school size adversely affects attendance, school climate, student involvement. Dividing large schools into small units creates a learning and teaching context that is more stable, intimate, supportive, interdisciplinary. Kohn-Holweide, a comprehensive German secondary school, groups all students at a given grade level with the same teachers…

Mainstreaming students with disabilities into regular physical education classes is becoming standard practice. Successful mainstreaming involves a multidisciplinary team approach. Physical educators must be involved in the multidisciplinary team process, helping with student evaluation and planning. The paper explains how to encourage teamwork.…

Thirty-two students with and without learning disabilities who had participated in both inclusion and pull-out service delivery models were interviewed individually. Overall, more children preferred the pull-out model, but many children were confident that inclusion was meeting their academic and social needs. (Author/DB)

Examines nationally collected data on the placement rates of students with disabilities across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Results indicate that some states have made significant progress toward serving students with disabilities in less restrictive settings, whereas others have made very little progress. (CR)

A survey of 80 schools for individuals with deafness and 38 mainstream schools with classes for students with hearing impairments indicated that the majority of administrators believe that teachers of students with deafness should have the same subject-matter competency as teachers of hearing students. Recommendations for teacher education are…

Describes how to use peer tutoring to enhance the participation of students with disabilities who are integrated into regular physical education classrooms. Strategies include using dyads and specific instruction, peers to increase academic learning time, cross-age peers, and classwide peers. These strategies are designed to enhance and assess the…