Suggested for teachers to reduce readability and conceptual difficulty of textbooks for mainstreamed students are simplifying content, sentences, and vocabulary. Guidelines from psycholinguistic research, and an example of simplified test are included. (Author)

To modify hearing preschoolers' refusals to interact with profoundly deaf peers, a three-week training program was provided. Training for hearing children included discussions about the meaning of deafness, an opportunity to practice communication techniques, and free-play interactions with deaf children. Hearing children did not respond…

The author reviews programs and procedures which have been developed to modify peer acceptance of exceptional children in the regular classroom. (SW)

The authors consider essential factors in the cultivation of gifts and talents exhibited by students in the regular classroom. (SW)

The social-cognitive problem-solving approach is presented as a means for ensuring social and affective development of handicapped and nonhandicapped children in public schools. A television-based instructional format to facilitate children's social and affective development is described, and an actual example of a television-based instructional…

The author suggests that the systems approach used in industrial management can help in the planning of special centers for handicaped students in regular schools. Special centers are considered in terms of their growth, benefits, and as a system development. (SB)

Describes how social studies teachers can work with mainstreamed students to make their classrooms real-life laboratories for social education. Multi-sensory teaching methods, which accommodate the needs, strengths, and learning styles of mainstreamed students and promote social studies learning, are suggested. (AM)

The article presents an empirical orientation for defining the least restrictive environment (LRE) for children with severe handicaps. The focus is on empirical analysis of both individual placement outcomes and general programmatic arrangements. (Author)

An updated empirical and conceptual review of preschool mainstreaming is presented. Specific topics addressed include rationale, program outcomes, child outcomes, teacher variables, and effects on parents. Among conclusions is that the effects of mainstreaming on severely handicapped children are largely unknown. (Author)

Discusses a study of 500 teachers in Great Britain who were interviewed about what they hoped to achieve in their mixed ability classes and the approaches they were using. Examines school policy and its implementation, pupil allocation, teaching advantages and disadvantages, and subject differences and teaching approaches. (CT)

Focusing on changes that have occurred in the education of the handicapped, this article (1) reviews recent federal legislation mandating mainstreaming, (2) discusses major concerns for industrial arts teachers who work with handicapped learners, and (3) summarizes Bloom's learning theory. (LRA)

The paper delineates three observable and measurable variables in the regular classroom (response opportunity, teacher-student interaction, and social acceptance) which the placement team can use to make the initial placement decision and to evaluate educational progress in the future for learning disabled students. (Author)

The application of the multiple talent model in special programs for the gifted is discussed in the context of a comprehensive program model as defined by J. Renzulli's triad model. (Author)

Mainstreaming research findings related to environmental variables are explained to be most important to the ultimate success of mainstreaming efforts. Approaches useful in planning and achieving transfer of training in mainstreaming programs are offered. (SB)

The article presents an interpretation and rationale regarding a few of the major trends in special education, particularly as they relate to the education of children labelled behaviorally disorderd. (Author)