The author investigated possible components of teacher expectancy and attitudes toward the integration of emotionally disturbed students into regular classes with 34 teachers of grades 4 through 6. The label "emotionally disturbed" was found to be a significant predictor of teacher ratings. (Author/SB)

Two naturalistic observation experiments were conducted to ascertain the extent to which mainstream teachers spent differing amounts of time with students labeled as learning disabled and with nonlabeled students. Results of both experiments showed that teachers do not spend significantly more time assisting students labeled as learning disabled.…

The column presents two articles, "Facing the Label" by J. Schulz and "Mainstreaming--A Different Approach" by J. Miltenberger. (SBH)

Forty special education teachers were asked to make decisions about a fourth grade boy who was portrayed as learning disabled or emotionally disturbed and who exhibited either high or low competence. Classroom placement decisions and future performance predictions were found to be a function of the child's perceived competence. Results were…

The view that regular education should be returned the responsibility for many services currently provided by special education is argued by M. Stephen Lilly, as part of the 1982 Statespersons' Roundtable of the Council for Exceptional Children. In addition, criticism of this view is expressed by John W. Kidd, along with comments from the 13…

Attaching diagnostic labels to learning disabled children can add to their difficulties. (Author/SBH)

The article responds to previous articles about the regular education initiative and concludes that there is little evidence to justify present practices of student categorization of the mildly handicapped in special education and that the need for major reform is great. (Author/DB)

Concerns raised by the regular education initiative of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services include: the possible elimination of services to learning disabled students, the greater potential for school failure and its relatively greater damage than the "learning disability" label, and the inappropriateness of the…

The author reviews the history of the category of educable mental retardation (EMR), asserts that students with this label are more like children with academic or behavioral difficulties than they are like their more retarded peers, and suggests an approach focusing on returning EMR students to the regular school curriculum. (CL)

The paper, given by the director of a project to train teachers for early childhood education programs which integrate handicapped and normal children, focuses on the effects of labeling on teacher-child interaction. The author recounts her own experience with teaching handicapped children and the historical tendency to label and segregate various…

The Warnock Committee has just signed the long-awaited report on special education. The focus here is on the most controversial issue in the report: whether children defined as being in need of special education should be integrated into ordinary schools. Examines the success of one authority in pioneering special classes in ordinary schools.…

Children's response to a handicapped child's differences may lie in earlier and more basic psychological phenomena than simply labels or separation. (Author/PHR)

Proposes the theoretical reappropriation of the labeling perspective as a theory of transformative social valuing, considering how misappropriations of labeling deviance theory undercut the salience of its critique and legitimate segregationist and deficit models of remedial and special education. The paper asserts that if there is to be any…

Discusses factors, such as the development of discrete groups, the labeling process, and the emphasis on the care role of special education teachers, that hinder integration of students with special needs into the further education program in England and Wales. Suggests strategies to overcome these impediments. (JOW)

Borrowing from epidemiological and economic analysis, we argue that the central constructs by which children are judged educationally rest in contrastive judgements and that such judgements are based on "everyday" constructs--not objective descriptors. But because these everyday constructs become seemingly objectified by the procedures and…