The document contains materials needed to implement Project CHANGE (Concepts of Handicaps and Attitudes Need Guidance and Education), a curriculum designed to improve the attitudes of children in Grades K through 8 toward the disabled. Included are the program manual, assessment instruments, the resource file, and a scope and sequence chart. The…

Nine articles provide perceptions of teachers, administrators, parents, teacher educators, and others on the mainstreaming of handicapped children. In "One Parent's View of Mainstreaming," a parent recounts her son's successful experience. "Justice is Affordable--Securing the Entitlements of PL 94-142" by M. Thompson and R.…

Researchers have been interested in studying the correlates and reciprocity of peer acceptance across various cultures. Tenth grade students in a Saudi Arabian suburban high school completed social desirability scales to examine the relationship between the acceptance of class members by individual students and the acceptance of individual…

A total of 78 Mexican-American and 14 Anglo-American children participated in a study to determine the relationship of oral English proficiency, social acceptance, and academic achievement among fifth grade students. The students were administered measures of phonology and verbal expression. Scores from a standardized achievement test were used to…

The final report discusses achievements of a 3 year project to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of integrating young handicapped children into existing early childhood programs. The project is conceptualized from a socioecological model, operationalized as a technical assistance support system, and located within an interdisciplinary…

Peer pressure was shown to have a powerful influence on the verbally expressed drug attitudes of the undergraduate male sample. Subjects exposed to a group which consistently espoused either conservative (anti-drug) or liberal (pro-drug) attitudes toward the personal use of drugs were highly likely to conform to the groups attitudinal norms.…

This book describes a series of studies included in a 5-year program of research on the social adjustment of school children in the third through sixth grades. The sample consists of a total of 40,000 children from Texas and Minnesota, including a small subsample of 5,000 used in a 4-year longitudinal study. Peer acceptance-rejection scores…

Television viewing habits of 12 to 14 year olds in Australia were studied, and an attempt was made to correlate amount of viewing time and choice of programs with these children's intelligence and personality. Average viewing time per night was three hours and 40 minutes. A large variation was found in the time at which children ceased viewing.…

An investigation of the relationship between appearance and psychological development is presented in this paper. The central hypothesis of the investigation is that appearance is an important stimulus property in the psychological development of children, and as such has an effect on an individual's response to his environment as well as the…

This study investigated the communication of acceptance and rejection in intracultural and intercultural triads in an interpersonal setting. Specifically, the attempt was made to determine how members of five different cultures defined and interpreted the verbal and nonverbal behaviors which for them constituted acceptance or rejection. Fifteen…

Teachers and peers rated retarded children on the dimensions of misbehavior and academic performance. Perceived academic incompetence was associated with educable mentally retarded children's level of social acceptance, whereas perceived misbehavior was associated with social rejection by peers. Amount of exposure to nonretarded children did not…

Interviews with 34 young adults with cerebral palsy and their responses to the Sense of Coherence Scale indicated that most experienced levels of life satisfaction and sense of coherence typical of non-handicapped persons. Satisfaction was most influenced by: feelings of meaningfulness; amount of support and guidance; and feelings of manageability…

Investigated the use of popular students in promoting the acceptance of socially neglected children. Results from fifth- and sixth-grade students suggest that popular students can be effectively directed to enhance the acceptance of socially neglected children. (Author/ABB)

The social/emotional impact of a gifted pullout program (grades 3-5) on participants (N=301) was evaluated through surveys administered to gifted and non-gifted students, staff, and parents. Elitism, social interactions, and peer/teacher expectations were examined. Results suggested either a neutral or supportive effect on program participants.…