Three papers present the positions of national organizations on full inclusion of students with learning disabilities in regular education classrooms, including the Learning Disabilities Association of America, Council for Learning Disabilities, and National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities. All three papers call for a continuum of…

Suggests that the inclusion of learners with specific learning disabilities into mainstream literacy classes to the detriment of all students and frustration of teachers is a burgeoning issue. Describes the flexible course provision provided in a highly successful adult basic-education intervention program. (JOW)

This article intends to increase awareness of culturally responsive literacy instruction by describing components of a literacy program that effectively address the needs of diverse learners, specifically adolescents with learning disabilities.

The digest explores aspects of serving the learning disabled (LD) student in vocational education classrooms. It is noted that LD students may have difficulty following directions and understanding lectures and may forget more often than other students. A list of seven accommodations that can be made for LD students in vocational classrooms…

Compared was the academic performance in the third grade of 75 children who had participated in the Complete Communication Development Program, a learning disabilities kindergarten, with the performance of 75 children in regular kindergartens. Stanford Achievement Test scores indicated that the Ss in the special class performed significantly lower…

The resource teacher's role as a consultant for learning disabled children in the regular classroom requires the skill of consultation which includes establishment of a contract, a working alliance, and a communications system between the resource teacher and the regular teacher as well as criteria for evaluation and termination. (DB)

The document presents transcriptions from a symposium on mainstreaming at the secondary level. The following seven projects are briefly described: the Parallel Alternate Curriculum for Secondary Classrooms in Arizona (a compensatory program developed and conducted by regular educators with special educators' support); Operation Divert in Florida…

The article offers advice to special education teachers when they are consulted by regular teachers on learning and behavior problems. (PHR)

A learning disabilities group teacher in elementary school describes how she improved relations with regular class students and teachers by bringing her group to the other classes to perform science experiments. (SBH)

Elementary-age children (Nequals20) diagnosed as learning disabled were assessed. It was concluded that regular classroom instruction alone may be insufficient for mainstreamed children with learning disabilities and that supplemental programming seems necessary if prior rates of academic learning are to be maintained. (Author)

The guest editorial by W. Cruickshank criticizes as facile the assumption that the least restrictive environment for learning disabled children is a regular classroom. (GW)

Eleven academically handicapped and 18 nonhandicapped members of a fourth-grade class participated in an auditing procedure in which they audited their own performance and that of all classmates on daily arithmetic assignments. Handicapped students on the average audited classmates more often (although not signficantly more so) than nonhandicapped…

A model depicting teacher-to-teacher communication can serve as a guide for special class teachers to systematize and streamline communication with regular teachers of mainstreamed learning disabled students. (CL)

Questionnaires completed by 450 elementary pupils and by 14 fourth- and fifth-grade teachers revealed a discrepancy between the two groups' social skill focus. Students favored communication and play/sport skills as factors facilitating social interaction while teachers tended to view task-related behaviors as more critical to mainstreaming…