This study examined the strategies teachers use to promote social play among special needs students and their nonhandicapped classmates. Children with special needs confront teachers in mainstreamed early childhood programs with the responsibility of promoting social interaction and peer acceptance among children with different levels of maturity,…

The study compared attitudes of nine 6th grade students (eight female and one male) who volunteered to participate in a peer tutoring swimming program for moderately and severely handicapped children with the attitudes of the remainder of the sixth grade class (N=15) who had not volunteered. All students had previously completed a curriculum…

The digest addresses, in question-and-answer format, ways to promote peer acceptance of handicapped students. Topics covered include the effects of first impressions on nonhandicapped students and the impact of physical proximity, and the nature of interdependence among students' learning goals and rewards as structured by the teacher. A…

Part of a series on the Hawaii Integration Project designed to facilitate integration of severely handicapped students, this guide presents strategies for leisure time integration. Following a discussion of rationale and assumptions in chapter 1, chapter 2 presents the interactive curricular model which views social competence as determined by…

The manual is intended to help elementargy grade students to develop greater awareness and acceptance of individuals with disabilities. Activities are divided into specific disabilities (arranged from least to most difficult to understand): (1) blindness, (2) deafness, (3) physical disabilities, (4) mental retardation, and (5) learning…

This study investigated links between recalled attachment to parents and current parenting attitudes of 126 parents of elementary school children. Mean age of subjects was 36.3 years; average length of marriage was 13 years. The majority of subjects had not experienced disruption in early attachment relationships or parental marital disharmony.…

The hypothesis was tested that humor facilitates social attraction. Students in three fourth-grade classrooms responded to two different peer rating surveys, one measuring interpersonal perceptions of humorousness and the other measuring classroom social distance. Differences between same- and cross-gender ratings were examined. Statistical…

The brief guide offers information on epilepsy to teachers and other school personnel. Types of seizures are defined (e.g., simple and complex partial seizures, generalized tonic clonic seizures), and management practices in the classroom setting for each type of seizure are described. Signs indicating that a seizure requires immediate medical…

The AID (Accepting Individual Differences) curriculum guide, the second in a series of five manuals, attempts to foster acceptance and respect for differences, as exemplified by disabilities. The manual presents activities on hearing impairments (HI) for instructors' personal learning, and lesson plans for teaching students in kindergarten through…

The AID (Accepting Individual Differences) curriculum guide, the third in a series of five manuals that attempt to foster acceptance and respect for differences as exemplified by disabilities, presents activities on motor impairments for insructors' personal learning and lesson plans for teaching students in primary grades. Presented for…

The AID (Accepting Individual Differences) curriculum guide, the fifth in a series of five manuals that attempt to foster acceptance and respect for differences as exemplified by disabilities, presents activities on visual impairments (VI) for instructors' personal learning, and lesson plans for teaching primary grade students. Suggested for…

Classroom and playground behaviors of 95 integrated mildly intellectually handicapped and mildly disabled students were compared with those of 95 nonhandicapped, age- and sex-matched regular class students. All subjects attended state government primary schools and were between 8 and 13 years of age. Subjects' behavior was observed in the…

Examined were relationships between children's popularity and: (1) the types of solutions children generated to common social dilemmas; (2) what they reported they would do in similar situations; (3) their statements regarding conflict participants' intent; and (4) what they expected to happen next in conflict situations. Subjects were 95…

The final report describes the 3-year project, "Functional Mainstreaming for Success," designed to develop a model for instructional mainstreaming of 162 handicapped children (3-6 years old) in community settings. The major feature of the project was development of a full reverse mainstreamed preschool program, which included children…

The final report describes the results of the first year of a 3-year project investigating the effects of using handicapped students as tutors. Detailed descriptions are provided of two main experiments in which learning disabled and intellectually handicapped students tutored students from the regular classroom in sign language and reading. Both…