Presented is a checklist of child, placement situation, and family parameters which contribute to successful mainstream placement for hearing impaired students. (CL)

This article discusses the ramifications and means of implementing new federal legislation requiring equal educational opportunities for the handicapped. (JD)

For journal availability, see EC 092 078.

The authors review sources of opposition to the concept of mainstreaming handicapped children, cite a lack of knowledge among many educators about the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142), and assert that a major deficiency in the legislation is the inadequate consideration for teacher education. (CL)

According to the respondents (state department of education personnel), mainstreaming activities have progressed significantly since 1971, with only a relative minority, roughly one-fifth, of the districts lagging behind the others. (Author)

Among six reasons cited for advocating caution in mainstreaming learning disabled students are lowered self concepts in mainstreamed students due to competition with their normal peers, lack of individual attention, and inadequate teacher preparation. (CL)

Ways that teachers can prepare themselves for a class with a mainstreamed disabled student are described, including obtaining information about the specific disability, visiting the child and parents at home, reflecting upon personal attitudes about disabilities, setting up for a wheelchair user, working with visually- or hearing-impaired…

The article examines service provisions for preschool-aged handicapped students in terms of two legal issues: what constitutes an appropriate program in terms of the intensity/frequency of program length; and how the least restrictive environment provision should be applied to this population. (Author/DB)

A study involving 90 regular class teachers indicated that the Rucker-Gable Educational Programming Scale appears a valid measure of the construct of knowledge of appropriate placement for handicapped students and sensitive to training effects. (CL)

The article offers criteria for measuring the reasonableness of accommodations made by the regular teacher for the handicapped child in a mainstreamed setting. Examples are given for utilization of material resources for delivery of instruction, classroom organization, instructional materials adaptation/modification, and utilization of human…

The article provides specific accommodations considered as reasonable for regular teachers to make for handicapped students with organizational problems in mainstream classes. Accommodations are listed that apply to all subject areas and that apply to the specific subject areas of reading/literature, spelling/writing, math, and social…

Mainstreaming has always generated problems for teachers and students. The John Witherspoon School (Princeton, New Jersey) developed a self-contained model with more students in fifth- and sixth-grade science and social studies classes and a modified mainstreaming approach (with support services) for seventh and eighth graders previously in…

This study compared qualitative fundamental motor skill performances of 170 nonhandicapped and 138 educable mentally retarded students (6-10 years old). Nonhandicapped students performed significantly better than educable students on each of the seven skills assessed. Results suggested such students should be evaluated before being mainstreamed…

A questionnaire regarding knowledge of hearing disorders and attitudes about mainstreaming hard-of-hearing children was administered to 187 inservice teachers enrolled in graduate communications courses. Results indicated that teachers' knowledge of hearing disorders was quite limited and that they desired substantial additional support and…

This study had two purposes: first, to add to the body of knowledge about instructional practices that promote disabled learners' success in regular education programs and second, to enable researchers to pilot the use of a state-adopted instrument for teacher observation. (MT)