The report examines issues involved in mainstreaming handicapped students in Sweden. M. Soder analyzes concepts, research, and research needs in the first paper on mentaly retarded students. He suggests that the major problem is lack of cooperation among teachers. In the second paper, K. Norden and T. Ang review the concepts of integration and…

This article provides information on special education topics on the international front. Topics range from a BrailleNote project in British Columbia, a Swedish program to help Romanian children with special needs, a visual resource room to help New Zealand students with visual impairments, and technology programs in European countries. (CR)

This examination of Swedish research in the area of communicative interaction is designed to establish a common base for analyzing communication through the use of video recordings. The review describes research from five perspectives: normally developing children, blind children and children with visual impairment, hearing-impaired and deaf…