A survey of slow learner education in state secondary schools was conducted in Auckland and North Auckland, New Zealand. Thirty-five schools containing 30,787 pupils replied to the questionnaire which covered the following areas: assessment prior to placement, educational objectives, identification methods, special classes, teaching groups,…

Discusses special needs learners in terms of who they are, how they can be identified, and how special education and industrial education teachers can cooperate to help serve their career development needs. (Editor)

This study examined inservice teachers' attitudes toward inclusion, surveying teachers' perceptions of their professional competence in working with special education students and in collaborating to plan and implement instructional programs. Professional training needs were also identified. Teachers from 90 schools in southeastern Alabama…

Regular classroom teachers are learning about P.L. 94-142 and about special education through inservice programs. Results of the programs indicate that teachers are more aware of and patient with special education students. In order to be maximally effective, inservice programs need to be long-term and issue-oriented, and should consider teacher…

One approach to preparing student teachers to deal effectively with mainstreamed handicapped children is to have special education personnel meet with student teachers. Each student teacher must acquire some supervised mainstreaming teaching experience. (JN)

Describes a full-time mainstreaming program that was recently implemented in a public elementary school. Discusses the changes in the role of the special education teachers participating in the program and how they perceived those changes. (HB)

Many school systems are moving toward an inclusion model for teaching special learners in which all students are included in general classrooms. The basic premise is that all students should first be placed in the general classroom. Students receive as many necessary supplementary aids and services as possible in the general classroom, and then,…

Project ACCEPT (Achieving Creative & Collaborative Educational Preservice Teams)represents an initiative at Northern Illinois University, where special and general education preservice teachers are joined in a voluntary project featuring an enhanced curriculum and field experiences in inclusive classrooms. Participants receive intensive…

In this article, we summarize the findings from eight separate focus group studies, conducted with various stakeholders--special education teachers, general education teachers, administrators, school psychologists, students with learning disabilities, parents of students with learning disabilities, teacher educators, and higher education faculty…

This paper addresses issues related to placement of students with emotional disabilities or behavior disorders and training of teachers who provide special education services for these students, particularly in rural areas. A survey of 68 special education directors and 43 teachers of students with emotional disabilities or behavior disorders in…

Phase I of this study sought to identify the specific social skills that 21 teachers of students with serious emotional disturbances (SED) and nine regular education teachers deemed as essential for successful classroom functioning. Subjects were asked to list such behaviors in four categories: environmental behaviors, interpersonal behaviors,…

Intended for all those working with handicapped children, the manual provides guidelines for the understanding and implementation of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Chapter 1 contains an introduction to the highlights of the law and a statement of what is required of the educational community for compliance. The next…

For a mainstreaming program to be effective, students should be able to experience success in a regular classroom with the enhanced self-image that accompanies a positive experience. Maximizing classroom accommodations for learning disabled students can help improve these students' access to educational opportunities and increase the probability…

Mainstreaming the handicapped child requires much more than mere placement in a regular classroom. Careful thought and preparation must be devoted to the affective, as well as cognitive, aspects of classroom experience. This paper describes the mainstreaming program at the North Rowan Primary School in Rowan County, North Carolina. Through team…

The "special" quality of special education is the body of knowledge, skills, and attitudes which are used in the education and training of exceptional school children. In practice, these children have been those who public school systems could not or would not teach. The history of education for exceptional children is a simple story of massive…