The true story of an unloved second grade boy whose teacher stuffs twenty-eight valentines signed From a Friend" etc. into his mailbox. She succeeds in making him lovable and loved. (AF)

The social interaction patterns of employees with and without mental retardation across several different competitive employment sites were observed. Findings suggested mentally retarded workers were physically but not socially integrated with their co-workers. Results are discussed in relation to their implications for integrating workers with…

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)

Results of interviews with 15 first-year students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf concerning their high school mainstreaming experience suggested that social mainstreaming may be more difficult to achieve than academic mainstreaming. (Author/DB)

Learning names is vital to the enjoyment and productivity of a group. Presents four games to help campers learn each others' names. Sidebar presents three additional teambuilding activities and ice breakers. (TD)

Family and community interactions provide important opportunities for facilitating the integration of children and youth with hearing loss, yet these environments have received little research attention. In this study, facilitators and barriers to integration associated with the social milieus of young people with hearing loss were identified.…

The paper examines communication between physically impaired and physically nonimpaired people. The paper begins with a definition of key terms (stigmatized and nonstigmatized are used to denote physically impaired and physically-nonimpaired people). It continues with a brief review of the literature in which the inattention to ways of humanizing…

This study tested a classwide peer tutoring model using rule-governed responding to teach tutors to accurately present learn units during social studies instruction using a multiple baseline across participants with pre and post intervention probes. Three students, aged 8 to 10, in a self-contained 3rd/4th grade CABAS[R] classroom participated in…

The Social coping Questionnaire (SCQ) measures strategies used by gifted adolescents to minimize the negative effect they believe their high ability has on their social interactions. Previous studies have supported the factor structure, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability of the SCQ. The current study provides construct validity…

Most studies of interpersonal attraction and rejection have come to the unremarkable conclusion that persons who are perceived as similar to one's self in beliefs and values are liked better than those perceived as dissimilar. This experiment was designed to vary in an orthogonal design (1) perceived similarity between a subject and another…

The group counselor can help the Asian-American client to be more expressive in communicating his feelings and thoughts to the group without negating his cultural values. Counseling can be more than therapeutic; it can also be rewardingly educational. (Author)

Data from divorced and remarried respondents suggest the existence of moderate normative integration of the former spouse relationship. Men and women were significantly different in their degree of acceptance of former spouse interaction. Expectations for former husbands and former wives in comparable situations showed no differential standards by…

Study evaluated the peer-based Suicide Intervention Project (SIP) in terms of changes experienced by its first participants. Improvements were expected in attitudes, norms, perceived behavioral control, self efficacy and intentions toward talking to other university students about personal feelings and mental health problems. Results are discussed…

The study investigated the effects of a cooperative intervention designed to allow 40 academically handicapped (learning disabled or mildly retarded) and normal progress students (in third, fourth, and sixth grades) to work cooperatively on academic materials in improving social relationships between these groups of students. In the cooperative…