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Peer reviewedLin, Wen T. C. – Disability, Handicap and Society, 1987
The development of special education in Brazil is compared with England and the U.S., emphasizing the predominance of educable mentally retarded as a category and the preference for special class provision. The paper discusses various influencing factors, current government policy and service provision, and the future prospects for integration.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Delivery Systems, Developing Nations, Disabilities
Peer reviewedMavrin-Cavor, Ljiljana – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1992
Comparison of primary grade students (n=67) with mild mental retardation in Croatia (Yugoslavia) receiving either a special program designed by special and regular educators, regular class services but no special educational help, occasional special educational help, or special services in a special school found that students in the first group…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming, Mild Mental Retardation
Download full textWilcox, Daryl J.; Wigle, Stanley E. – 1997
This study investigated the changes in the mainstreaming practices of five school districts, which were originally described in a 1974 study by Birch. The districts involved were: Tacoma (Washington), Richardson (Texas), Plano (Texas), Tucson (Arizona), and Louisville (Kentucky). Survey forms were sent to superintendents of the original six…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Clifford, Miriam; McKinney, James D. – 1974
Evaluated in a 3-year project were the effects of three different classroom settings (a graded open classroom with a resource teacher, a multigrade open classroom emphasizing individualized instruction, and two self-contained special education classrooms) on achievement, self-concept, and classroom behavior of 30-38 educable mentally retarded…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Communications, Delivery Systems
