The resource teacher's role in providing inservice training to regular educators is examined. The paper then describes an Action Plan Approach in which regular education teachers and the resource room teacher jointly identify problems commonly associated with mainstreaming and utilize combined efforts to resolve the problem. The advantages to the…

The paper is a product of the 3-year project, "Functional Mainstreaming for Success," designed to develop a model for instructional mainstreaming of handicapped children (3-6 years old) in community settings. The paper reviews the literature defining "mainstreaming," notes that mainstreaming is not the wholesale return of exceptional students from…

The authors address the conditions of mainstreaming visually handicapped students in regular schools in Quebec. Types of schools for the visually impaired in Quebec are briefly described. Reported are findings from a study which evaluated different aspects of the mainstreaming of visually impaired students, including the perceptions of the…

Four bibliographies from Dean's Grant Projects (programs designed to prepare regular class teachers to work with mainstreamed handicapped students) are provided. Entries include author's name, title, source, date and pagination information, and, in two of the bibliographies, a brief annotation. The following topics are the central concerns of the…

This study reviews the effects of training and service in a student advocacy program for Emotionally Disturbed (ED) children on attitudes of 16 secondary teachers toward ED children in the regular class. The intervention program involved 6 days of inservice training on working with ED students, delivered concurrent with the teachers' serving in an…

Two separate studies were conducted to determine what factors contributed to and predicted mainstreaming of handicapped youngsters, and to study the impact of early intervention and P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) on mainstreaming. In Study A, 434 elementary-level special education student records were examined, and…

This final report documents the accomplishments and activities of the Albuquerque Integration Model (AIM) Outreach Project, designed to stimulate the awareness of parents and health care and education professionals regarding serving young handicapped children in settings which include their nonhandicapped peers. Progress in 14 project objectives…

Teacher attitudes toward mainstreaming and classroom management styles of 75 experienced, elementary-level teachers were examined using an attitude scale and a questionnaire based on the induction-sensitization paradigm of socialization. Positive attitudes toward mainstreaming were modestly correlated (r=.20, p < .04) with an inductive approach to…

Ways in which gifted children may be handicapped are discussed, as are provisions for educating gifted children according to their ability. (GW)

Describes a preschool program where deaf children and "normal" children, aged 1 month through 6 years, are successfully integrated. (ST)

Project PRIME was initiated to investigate the effectiveness of alternative special education instructional services. (GW)

Discussed are the problems and promises of integrating retarded children with normal peers. (CL)

Disciplinary measures that are reasonable for the nonhandicapped student may be unreasonable for a handicapped student. So maintains this nineteenth chapter of a book on school law dealing with regulations and judicial action related to discipline of handicapped students under the Education of the Handicapped Act. As interpreted by "Doe v.…

Autobiographical sketches of four Australians living with physical handicaps are presented in this Australian early childhood resource booklet. Life experiences in school and out are reported by a blind man, a young woman who was brain damaged due to injuries in an automobile accident, a mother of a child with spina bifida, and a Doctor of…

A planning and decision making process to facilitate research dissemination is illustrated with the example of a research project to study techniques for helping young handicapped children make the transition successfully from a special preschool to a public school kindergarten. General guidelines for planning dissemination are listed. Major…