Seventy-five violent/assaultive students (age 7-16) attending a specialized day-treatment facility were studied to identify psychoeducational variables differentiating between successfully or unsuccessfully mainstreamed students. Differentiating variables were: follow-up contacts with the public school, numerical ratings on an ecological measure,…

The article describes a program of the Coleshill, United Kingdom, schools in which children with severe learning difficulties in a special school joined in mainstream classes at other schools for a variety of shared activities. (DB)

This paper reports on a series of 1992 visits to special education classes and programs in Oxfordshire, England. Information concerning mainstreaming of special needs students is applied to the situation in British Columbia, where decisions concerning inclusion and neighborhood schools are being made. (Author/JDD)

This article describes the mainstreaming of 11 students (ages 16-19) with severe learning difficulties (who had previously attended a special school) into a comprehensive community school in the United Kingdom. It reports on the response of nondisabled students, the influence of school ethos and staff attitudes, and the need to prepare both…

Parents of gifted children may be convinced to support inclusive programs. In one Washington district, well-educated parents given sixth-grade test data supported an enriched, inclusive program once they realized that some of their kids would not qualify as gifted. Districts can allow parents to attend professional development programs alongside…

Interviews were conducted with 26 classroom teachers to investigate their beliefs and attitudes about implementing integrated special education services for students with moderate and severe disabilities. Views toward integration focused on four aspects of the change: its purpose, clarity of implementation methods, effort required of teachers, and…

The history of the least restrictive environment concept is reviewed as it relates to students with severe disabilities (moderate, severe, or profound retardation; autism; multiple disabilities; or deaf-blindness). Stages in the evolutionary process and future prospects are analyzed, with attention to physical, functional, and social inclusion.…

Discusses problems in conducting and interpreting educational research results. Discusses weaknesses of cooperative learning and heterogeneous grouping. Suggests that good schools of the future will be where all pupils attain as much as possible. (RS)

School environments supporting inclusion require collaborative planning and program development. Inclusion is possible if the full community of parents, education personnel at all levels, policymakers, and community agencies join to make it a reality. Discusses observable benchmarks to be used to measure a school's progress in building these…

Fourth grade and fifth grade mainstreamed and at-risk students, who were offered systematic review of content and practice to become comfortable with achievement test formats and timed situations during mathematics instruction, scored significantly higher than control students on three measures on a mathematics achievement test. (Author/JDD)

Describes lively and attractive learning environment in halls, classrooms, playground, and even rest rooms of an Ohio elementary school on kindergarten assessment day. School's equally lively principal, a former classroom teacher, is seldom in her office, preferring to mix with teachers and students. Books are everywhere, and children with…

An account of one teachers week-long visit to New Mexico is presented. The account is used by the teacher to help broaden other teachers perspectives about language and cultural differences in their classrooms. (12 references) (JL)

Integrating students in wheelchairs into regular tennis classes can be very easy. Teachers only need to make a few modifications to their standard class plans. The article explains how to modify a tennis class for students in wheelchairs, and presents teaching tips and the rules for wheelchair tennis. (SM)

A school system engaged an acoustical consultant to test designated classrooms to determine whether an acoustical problem existed. The consultant conducted tests and concluded that there was no problem. Findings from an investigation of the data differed appreciably from those of the acoustical consultant. Acoustical design criteria for remodeling…

This paper discusses how educators can advance integration of students with disabilities by involving parents in the educational process. The paper suggests courses of action that can be taken to promote home-school collaboration, describing the importance of continuity of values between home and school, models of parent involvement, the…