The discussion of educating handicapped children without special classes emphasizes the importance of looking at the educational process in socio-psychological terms. Referred to are some of the unsuccessful results of segregating students, such as achievement of similar or smaller academic gains, perpetuation of much of the mild mental…

A security force at Moorhead State University is fully staffed by students. With money saved on administrative costs, the university has been able to increase its security services. (Author/MLF)

Physical educators, it is argued, should allow students who possess knowledge, understanding, and performance ability to demonstrate their competency and receive credit equivalent to that received by students who pass the course. Discussed are rationales, advantages, negative aspects, and concerns regarding implementation of equivalency programs.…

The position statement of the Board of Trustees of the Council for Learning Disabilities opposes the inclusion of nonhandicapped low achievers and underachievers in learning disability programs and recommends that these students be served within the regular education program. (DB)

Calculated Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) factor deviation quotients (DQ) for Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization, and Freedom From Distractibility. DQs were then compared to the Adaptive Behavior Scale. Results indicated Community Self-Sufficiency and the Comparison Score were significant. Verbal scores were…

The article explains the usefulness of PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) in streamlining exceptional student referral processes. With PERT, realistic time and personnel needs can be established, and the status of every referral can be known at all times. The initial step in PERT breaks the process into small manageable units and…

Aberrant behavior is viewed from a pragmatic (communicative function) approach, and three types of pragmatically oriented interventions are discussed: (1) teaching alternative communicative behavior, (2) teaching other functionally related alternative responses, and (3) manipulating antecedent conditions. An assessment strategy for forming…

The article extends the concept of hierarchy of services and least restrictive environment to gifted students. A modified hierarchy conceives of increases in services from restrictive (regular class) settings to nonrestrictive (special classes and schools) ones. (CL)

Of 223 children who were coded as buy-a-year (BAY), overplaced (OP), or traditional (TR) based on their Gesell placement status, there were no significant differences between TR, BAY, or OP children on referrals or classification or on receipt of speech and language service, remedial reading, remedial math, or counseling. (Author/CL)

An examination of case records and special educational placement decisions for 40 children found that very few children were mainstreamed and that other than the child's ability and/or learning/behavioral characteristics were strongly implicated in special educational decisions. (Author/CL)

The author raises issues concerned with the appropriateness of mainstreaming for educable mentally retarded students, including students mainstreamed, reasons (academic and social) for such placement, duration in mainstream settings, and daily experiences of mainstreaming. The need to redirect energy from where to how children are educated is…

School psychology graduate trainees, special education trainees, school psychology practitioners, and special education practitioners (total N=80) independently rated 16 pieces of diagnostic data on importance in determining special educational placement. Results indicated that classroom observation, assessments of expressive and receptive…

Advanced Placement (AP) courses, although varying widely from school to school, are college-level work offered to secondary students to prepare them for AP examinations. AP courses provide appropriate content and pacing for students, including gifted and talented students, and can ease the transition from high school to college. (CL)