This workshop report examines the admission and academic placement of students from the Caribbean. Workshop materials concerning the educational systems of the British patterned Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic; Dutch patterned Caribbean, French West Indies, Haiti, Puerto Rico; and the U.S. Virgin Islands are presented. Workshop recommendations…

This training manual resulted from a project whose purposes were to demonstrate; (1) the feasibility of providing career counseling by specially trained graduate assistants as part of the college placement service; and (2) that such counseling can be provided as effectively and more efficiently in a group setting than in a one-to-one setting. Part…

Identified are seven educational options and related services for determining individualized education programs of aurally handicapped students. (CL)

The guest editorial by W. Cruickshank criticizes as facile the assumption that the least restrictive environment for learning disabled children is a regular classroom. (GW)

Analysis of the numbers of referred students who were evaluated and the number of evaluated students who received special education from 1977-80 in 94 districts revealed that, overall, the probabilities associated with the evaluation of referred students and delivery of special education sevices to evaluated students were high. (CL)

Defending his conclusions, the author argues that the data reviewed tell much about ability grouping. (SLD)

The author describes her discussion with school personnel, administrators, tutor/interpreters, and deaf students, regarding the effects of mainstreaming and P.L. 94-142. She cites general dissatisfaction with both the social and intellectual progress made after 10 years of the legislation and notes difficulties with the concept of least…

The author affirms the benefit of appropriate special education programing for behaviorally disordered students, particularly those with accompanying academic achievement problems, but cautions that problems with roots in other environments than the school may be best addressed by non-school agencies. (CL)

The paper presents a step-by-step procedure for finding the probability of occurrence of the difference between test scores and the probability of occurrence of errors of measurement. This procedure is useful in interpreting test results to parents and making placement decisions. Difference scores are often used in placing students in learning…

Reanalysis of data from a study of the activities of 59 regular elementary students vis-a-vis the Individualized Education Program process and mainstreaming of handicapped students examined practices in which nonhandicapped students were regularly sent to special education classrooms for reasons including instruction and social integration. (CL)

A brief review of the major recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Selection and Placement of Students in Programs for the Mentally Retarded and a discussion of implications for current policy and funding practice in special education are provided. (Author/CL)

In Burlington School Committee v. Department of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the law does not bar parents from making unilateral placements, but they may be reimbursed only if the private educational program is eventually approved through the appeal set forth in the law. (Author/CL)

Difficulties facing the development of gifted programs for preschoolers are noted (including problems in identification), and four alternatives are discussed: regular preschool placement, second-grade placement for some part of the day, regular class placement with time for independent work, and preschool gifted class placement. (CL)

A review cites 16 studies (1976-82) on placement of trainable (moderately) mentally retarded children in preschool, elementary, and secondary levels. Among conclusions drawn are that TMR integration is more frequent at preschool elementary than at secondary levels, and that it is largely restricted to less structured settings. (CL)

The author draws on his experience with learning disabilities (LD) to offer 10 challenges to the profession, including to adopt a historically and professionally honest and accurate definition of LD, to recognize two separate groups within LD, and to advocate against the principle of least restrictive environment. (CL)