This manual is a practical guide for use by schools of education which must comply with the Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards for Approval of Teacher Certification Programs. These standards require that competencies needed to educate students in least restrictive environments be incorporated into undergraduate and graduate degree…

The impact of the Feeling Free television series in mainstreamed classrooms was examined to determine if, in what ways, and under what ways it promoted children's awareness, understanding, and acceptance of handicapped people. (Feeling Free is addressed to third through fifth graders to enhance their awareness and understanding of disabled…

This final report contains information on the Saskatoon Pre-School Project, which was part of a more comprehensive research and development project designed to develop effective services for educationally handicapped children in rural areas around Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada). One chapter of the report provides an account of the planning,…

The document contains the final report of the Special Programs for Individualized Needs (SPIN) program designed to develop a demonstration model for training day care personnel to identify developmentally delayed or emotionally disturbed children and to program for them within the regular day care setting. Major objectives were to develop…

The document describes the Dean's Grant Project at Augustana College (South Dakota) which focused on the implications of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) for colleges and universities offering preservice and inservice teacher training programs. Implications of six major aspects of the law for higher education are…

Intended for regular class teachers, the booklet provides information to aid in mainstreaming the visually impaired (VH) child. Sections address the following areas: characteristics of the VH child (legal and educational definitions, common visual defects, etiology); identification and signs of visual problems (warning symptoms); the vision…

A study was conducted to improve accessibility of the handicapped to appropriate vocational education experiences. To accomplish this purpose two handbooks for vocational administrators were designed, developed and disseminated, and a third handbook was planned. (These handbooks cover federal laws affecting vocational education for the handicapped…

The document presents the draft of the state of South Carolina's amended annual program plan for the fiscal year 1980, which describes how South Carolina plans to comply with the regulations mandated by the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142). Information is provided regarding how the 1980 annual program plan was made public.…

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of an individualized program for learning-disabled children. The subjects participated individually prescribed learning activities, which involved small-group interactions directed toward the growth and development of perceptual skills, perceptual-motor skills and self-concepts, and…

The paper describes Project PREM (Preparing Regular Educators for Mainstreaming), a program to develop a training model and materials to prepare regular educational personnel to work with mildly handicapped students, to expand the implementation of the training model, and to disseminate the revised materials within the University of Texas at…

In relatively recent months the U. S. Congress and the Georgia General Assembly have enacted comprehensive legislation that affects the placement of students in special education programs. The major concern of this article is the procedural safeguards in regard to student classifications. The major precedent-setting cases in the area of due…

Surveyed were the program planning processes employed by 40 New Jersey schools in establishing resource rooms as alternatives to self-contained special classes for handicapped children. Responses to questionnaire items indicated that a majority of the schools surveyed did not formally evaluate their previous self-contained program to determine its…

Described is a regional program in post secondary vocational training for deaf students established at the St. Paul Vocational Technical Institute (TVI) to demonstrate that deaf students can be successfully trained in an environment normally serving the hearing. Included is background information on the problem of providing post secondary…

Described are various aspects of a program to train school personnel to meet the special needs of mainstreamed children. The staff development program is discussed in terms of program responsibility, strategy, and steps taken by the principal in the implementation procedure. The four stages of Project RETAP, a special education in-service program…

Six critical variables in the mainstreaming of hearing impaired children include focusing attention on the child who has always been mainstreamed, monitoring the child on an intensive basis (preferably by the speech clinician), involving staff in inservice training and consultative services, considering parents as members of the team, convincing…