Assessment in Adapted Physical Education is no longer the exception, but the rule under the guidelines of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Regular physical educators are currently becoming involved in assessment processes and joining school multidisciplinary teams for total profile development of school aged…

Initiations of prosocial actions by mainstreamed handicapped and normal preschool children were studied to discover (1) which preschool activity setting was more conducive to prosocial interactions; (2) which specific prosocial bids were more likely to occur in various settings; (3) whether frequency of prosocial behaviors was related to…

The paper describes three strategies featuring a microcomputer to promote the integration and acceptance of students with disabilities among their nondisabled peers. The first strategy is a cross-age tutoring program in which disabled, learning disabled, emotionally disabled, or mildly retarded students demonstrate computer use to nondisabled…

School policy which emphasizes the placement of handicapped children in the regular classroom has received acclaim both as a step toward equity and as an attempt to improve the academic learning and social adjustment of handicapped students. Although new teachers entering the system are better prepared than ever before to face the difficulties…

The document, one of 11 in a series developed by the Hawaii Integration Project, focuses on the social studies topic of understanding prejudice. The curriculum is designed for grades 4-6 and includes in its first unit an exploration of the dynamics of groups and group membership. In the three lessons students experience the feelings of acceptance…

This report, one of a series of case studies on mainstreaming efforts, describes a self-contained class for nine severely mentally and multiply handicapped 16- to 21-year-olds in an urban middle school. Following a description of the physical and social environment is a review of the history of the program begun in 1978-79. The author observes…

Intensive observation of the helping interactions of 40 children in the third through fifth grades of five Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area schools was conducted for the purpose of assessing the impact of familiarity on the success of children's help-seeking from peers. The amount of visual regard that children received from peers was also assessed.…

The paper recommends that young children with disabilities be placed in preschool classes with normally developing children whenever possible. Significant benefits are cited in the areas of social, emotional, and communication development when children with handicapping conditions are educated in settings with their nonhandicapped peers. Four…

California state law A.B. 2666 requires local educational agencies to provide special education to all children with exceptional needs between the ages of 3 and 5 years. The law aims to reduce the potential impact of handicapping conditions; produce substantial gains in physical development, cognitive development, language and speech development,…

The report documents evaluation by the Office of Educational Assessment of first year (1983-84) implementation by the New York City school system of the Least Restrictive Placement Personnel Training Program. Program goals were to develop and field-test training materials for a population of approximately 700 special and general education…

The last of 16 booklets designed for use in an Open University course on the education of handicapped students in the United Kingdom, this text focuses on integration and ways it might be pursued. Questions are posed for the student to answer concerning various aspects of integration, including the amount of centralization needed, the effects of…

The paper reports on a study of disabled children attending ordinary schools in Peshawar, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Results revealed the proportion of disabilities (2% of the total enrollment) in terms of the highest (speech impairments--37.6%) to the lowest (epilepsy--1%). The general attitude of administrators and teachers toward…

Fourteen sites attempting to integrate 245 severely handicapped students (aged 3-22) with non-handicapped children were examined. Trained observers recorded social interaction between handicapped and non-handicapped students, incorporating macroscopic and microscopic views. Adaptive behavior of each S was also measured, as was teacher and school…

The newsletter issue reports on the current debate on the merits of academics versus "life skills" in the education of mildly handicapped students as well as the proposed Regular Education Initiative, a plan to better unify regular and special education. Noted are the increased numbers of students identified as handicapped with the…

The manual is intended to encourage Head Start program and school district collaboration in providing an integrated system of services and support for the preschool handicapped child. The introduction identifies specific benefits of collaboration followed by a list of definitions of common terms used by the Head Start programs and school…