Ways that teachers can prepare themselves for a class with a mainstreamed disabled student are described, including obtaining information about the specific disability, visiting the child and parents at home, reflecting upon personal attitudes about disabilities, setting up for a wheelchair user, working with visually- or hearing-impaired…

A Child Awareness Program was conducted by nine elementary schools to enhance acceptance of handicapped children by their nonhandicapped peers through child awareness activities. A manual of activities was developed containing lesson plans, lists of guest speakers, audiovisual materials, and suggested simulations of handicapping conditions. (SB)

Lessons designed to help elementary students understand disabilities and disabled persons were successful in promoting understanding and positive attitudes. Lessons focus on such topics as individual differences, people in wheelchairs, and hearing and visual impairments. (Sample lessons are presented for grades K-6.) (CL)

Placing socially rejected handicapped students with popular nonhandicapped students for cooperative nonacademic tasks is one approach to easing handicapped students' transition into the mainstreamed classroom. Teachers can group children according to sociometric techniques. (CL)

Sensitive, conscientious teachers can help change children's competitiveness into greater feelings of success and self-worth and can enhance acceptance for mainstreamed handicapped students. (CL)

Fourteen children's books which may help classroom teachers understand children with handicaps are described. The books deal realistically with a variety of handicaps (mental retardation, hearing impairments, blindness, physical disabilities, and multiple disabilities) and can be an effective tool in helping nonhandicapped children empathize and…

The article describes learning activities and resource materials that may be helpful in helping preschool children develop positive attitudes toward handicapped children. (CL)

English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers can help disabled learners through observation and awareness efforts (such as sharing their knowledge of cross-cultural differences with special education resource staff), sensory activities (evolving a multisensory approach), and translating one sensory experience in terms of another. (CL)

Approaches to helping nondisabled elementary students examine their feelings in preparation for mainstreaming handicapped children are described, including simulations, activities to provide familiarity with braces and prostheses, use of handicapped adults as guest speakers, and discussions about handicaps. (CL)

Special educators are encouraged to prepare the regular teacher for a handicapped child, familiarize the regular teacher with the individualized education program, prepare the regular students for the handicapped child's arrival, reinforce appropriate behavior in the handicapped child, involve others in the integration process, evaluate teacher…

The paper is a product of the 3-year project, "Functional Mainstreaming for Success," designed to develop a model for instructional mainstreaming of handicapped children (3-6 years old) in community settings. The literature review examines activities and methods to prepare nonhandicapped children for the mainstreaming of handicapped children.…

A program to prepare elementary grade students for mainstreaming of handicapped students is described. An outline of objectives, student activities, and required media and materials to improve understand of hearing impairment, visual impairment, physical handicap, and learning disability are provided. (DB)

Thirteen programmatic factors are identified and considered for their role in fostering social integration in mainstreamed settings. (CL)

The second of five volumes (and the first of the four curriculum guides) which make up Project Teach 'n' Reach, designed to help regular classroom teachers teach nondisabled children about disabilities, focuses on the affective domain. The volume presents goals, performance objectives, and activity ideas (along with information on materials and…