The final report of Project LINC (Learning in Integrated Classrooms), a training program for 3-to-6-year-old mildly and moderately handicapped children, discusses the accomplishments of the 3-year project. It is explained that the project developed and refined teaching strategies, skills, and support systems for classroom teachers and programs for…

The report presents results of the first year of a Minneapolis Project, RIM (Reducing Isolation in the Mainstream), whose goals are: to expand and refine knowledge of the variables critical to personal and social growth of sensorially handicapped children in the mainstream, and to use this knowledge to provide appropriate support services for the…

This issue of "Insights Into Open Education" investigates various aspects of the problems and potential of mainstreaming handicapped children into the regular school program. Brekke, in an article entitled "How Can Teachers Begin to Meet the Special Needs of Mainstreamed Children in the Regular Classroom?" asserts that teachers must concentrate on…

The author demonstrates that special speech and language services can be provided in the regular classroom through the collaborative efforts of speech-language pathologists and regular classroom teachers. In the opening chapters, a brief primer on the speech and language problems which may be encountered among children in regular education…

The "special" quality of special education is the body of knowledge, skills, and attitudes which are used in the education and training of exceptional school children. In practice, these children have been those who public school systems could not or would not teach. The history of education for exceptional children is a simple story of massive…

Presented is the report of the Adaptive Education Task Force in Madison (Wisconsin) Public Schools which followed an investigation of the need to broaden the scope of physical education and recreation services to handicapped students. The work of the task force is reported in summary form in three parts: a position statement, assessment of needs,…

Presented is the final report of a 6-year Teacher Instructional Program (TIP) to train regular classroom and other educational personnel to understand the emotional and educational needs of handicapped children (in grades K-6) and of a Parent Education Program (PEP) operated conjointly with TIP. Included in an overview of the project is…

The handbook provides a guide for the development of a public school program for autistic and seriously emotionally disturbed (ED) children which reflects the experience and successful elements of the Orange County (Florida) School District program. Included are sections on program rationale and philosophy (providing equal education…

This three year study compared three organizational plans for teaching remedial reading by spending one year each at different grade levels: primary, intermediate, and seven-eight, in that order. In the first plan a reading consultant tutored childen individually in a reading clinic. In the second plan a master reading teacher provided aid in…

This publication describes the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) network for the Preparing Regular Educators for Mainstreaming (PREM) project. PREM is a competency-guided program being developed at the University of Texas at Austin to prepare educators to meet the needs of exceptional children in the regular classroom. PERT is an…

Provided in Volume II of a final report on the status of California educable mentally retarded (EMR) students reassigned to regular classes as a result of legislation are appended forms, instruments and project reports. Included are letters of introduction to various project phases, project data collection forms (including teacher questionnaires),…

Presented are inservice education guidelines for elementary school teachers of mainstreamed educable mentally handicapped and learning disabled students. The Team Learning Center (California) Inservice program is described in terms of goals and objectives, content areas (covering academic and behavior management and communication), instructional…

The final report on Preparing Regular Educators for Mainstreaming mildly handicapped children (Project PREM) focuses on the first year's activities and outlines proposed objectives for the project's second and third years. Covered in an introductory section are Project PREM's main objective of developing and implementing a competency-based program…

Reported is the 1969-70 school year of Vermont's Consulting Teacher Program (Burlington) during which two consulting teachers-in-training assisted 16 teachers and four aides in providing special educational services for 27 handicapped learners enrolled in regular elementary classrooms and two handicapped learners in special classes. The report…

Reported is the 1970-71 school year of Vermont's Consulting Teacher Program (Burlington) during which one consulting teacher, one consulting teacher intern, and one consulting teacher-in-training assisted 37 teachers and three aides in providing special educational services for 79 students in regular elementary classrooms and two students in…