Thirty-three suburban elementary classroom teachers were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward their mainstreamed visually handicapped students. (Author)

Presents some ideas and methods for providing a learning environment for students with hearing loss, as well as some background information on mainstreaming handicapped students into regular classrooms. To help teachers in implementing the provisions of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142), the author includes a list of…

A research project at Florida State University developed teaching materials for secondary home economics teachers faced with teaching hand and machine sewing and other clothing construction skills to visually handicapped students. The article gives some suggestions for presenting instructions and adapting equipment for cutting and sewing garments.…

Describes recent legislation in the field of special education (P.L. 94-142) and discusses important implications this legislation has for vocational education. (Editor/TA)

The National Education Association Government Relations Board offers some highlights of the definitions used in the PL 94-142 regulations and some of the general criteria for state and local administration of the program. (JD)

Evaluated was the academic achievement of 14 mainstreamed hearing impaired rubella students (8-12 years old). (Author/CL)

In anticipation of several consequences to the federal governments' interpretation on Mainstreaming or "the least restrictivement environment" for the handicapped of the new federal legislation (PL 94--142), NJEA's Committee on Exceptional Children proposed the policy discussed here. (Editor/RK)

Developments in the integration of handicapped children in the educational system of Ontario, Canada are reviewed. (GW)

Surveys about mainstreaming orthopedically handicapped students were completed by 74 school administrators in California. (CL)

Individual profile analysis of 13 Handicapped Children's Early Education Program day care programs and handicapped (N=23) and nonhandicapped (N=22) children served in the programs revealed a wide range of functional capabilities of the children and the frequently cited goal of socialization of all children. (Author/CB)

A survey of 588 North Carolina regular educators, special educators, principals, and directors of special education programs indicated that most educators grade mainstreamed handicapped students in a traditional report card format and affirmed the practice of ranking effort, attitude, level of ability, and participation higher in grading than…

Discusses how reform efforts have historically followed a pattern of de facto exclusion of people who are severely retarded. Examines "social constructivism" as a guiding philosophy of current disability forms and presents "critical theory" as alternative perspective for disability studies. (PS)

Various data on the 397 participants who identified themselves as orthopedically handicapped in the national "High School and Beyond" study were compared to data on nonorthopedically handicapped participants. Findings, and speculations regarding them, are offered. (Author/MT)

Evaluation of sociometric ratings assigned by and to 27 educable mentally retarded high school students partially mainstreamed found that retarded students rated their peers more negatively and received more negative ratings than matched (for race, grade, sex, socioeconomic status, participation in extracurricular activities) controls. (DB)