This historical examination of the educational placement of visually impaired students focuses on the dual curriculum of instruction in academic areas and in disability-specific skills. Program placement involves assessment, identification of instructional needs, and consideration of placement alternatives. Models of service delivery and…

Outlines a set of procedures designed to incorporate Limited English Proficient students into the mainstream curriculum. Discusses the information needed to make mainstreaming decisions, and the procedures and instruments needed to gather the information. Reviews mainstreaming programs in various states. (BJV)

In a case-managed university support system for students who are deaf or hearing impaired, a rehabilitation counselor with interpreting skills helps individual faculty, students, and staff manage the system of 10 integrated support services. The counselors' primary functions are assessment, planning, linking, monitoring, and advocacy. (MSE)

This rebuttal to a criticism of the authors' article questioning the regular class placement of students with learning disabilities (LD) cites research that supports the effectiveness of special education settings for some students and highlights limitations of inclusion settings. The paper stresses that the elimination of the continuum of…

This article explores three issues in determining appropriate placements for students with emotional and behavioral disorders: (1) objectives of the full inclusion movement in relation to the education of these students; (2) current court cases focusing on inclusion; and (3) promising practices for educating these students in a general education…

Twelve deaf children (ages 6 to 16) in Italy utilized a computer-assisted interactive multimedia program designed to facilitate their access to new information via both Italian Sign Language and Italian written text. All the children used and profited from the application. Findings are discussed in terms of bilingual methods of education for deaf…

Collaborative teaching offers one strategy for combining efforts of special and regular educators to provide a strong education for all students and avoid special-needs students' isolation from peers. Staffing and scheduling may be a problem at secondary level. Collaborative models require teachers' clear understanding of respective roles,…

This article reviews reasons behind the full inclusion movement, concerns that have been raised about full inclusion, and elements necessary to implement successful inclusion programs. The efforts of a southwestern elementary school staff to implement inclusive education for students from culturally/linguistically diverse backgrounds and students…

A preschool/kindergarten program that serves 18 students with deafness/hearing impairments and 11 hearing children uses music activities to develop speech, audition, language, and movement and to further explore current classroom themes. A deaf teacher models body movements, signs, rhythm, and facial expressions while a hearing teacher models…

Papers by Lloyd Dunn and Evelyn Deno are analyzed for their ideas about merging special and general education, labeling, and blaming students' failure to learn solely on teachers. Development of a culture of disability that uses the distinctive characteristics of persons with disabilities to develop a positive identity through congregation,…

A single-subject design utilized three mainstreamed hard-of-hearing students in middle school to evaluate whether cooperative learning was effective in encouraging conversational interaction with hearing peers and teachers. Results indicated that cooperative learning positively influenced the conversational turns, initiations, moves, and mean…

This study gathered advice about integration from 53 Virginia general/special education teachers and administrators involved in integrating students with moderate/severe disabilities into general education schools/classes. The study examined teachers' and administrators' judgments about success of integration and examined their perceptions of…

This paper examines overall themes arising from five case studies of elementary schools implementing inclusive models for students with learning disabilities and draws implications for policy and teacher preparation. Themes concern model variations, the role of the special education teacher, and evidence that students with learning disabilities…

This article presents and explains the Preschool Checklist, a measure that incorporates research-based guidelines for developing preschool programs that include children with severe disabilities. The checklist assesses four areas: (1) scheduling and instructional arrangements; (2) socialization and communication; (3) alternative communication; and…

Describes mastery learning, a teaching model that allows full inclusion of rural students with intense educational needs. The approach is based on curriculum modifications, team teaching, peer tutoring, and cooperative learning. Documents the success of mastery learning in the case of a rural first-grade student with Down's Syndrome. (LP)