In an examination of a school-based program to develop creative thinking skills of gifted children in the beginning intermediate grades, few differences were found in curricular achievement between gifted children in segregated homogeneous classes and in hetergeneous classes. (Author/CL)

Examined are problems of integration and segregation in special education classes. (CB)

The training of adolescents to work as teacher aides in special classes for mentally retarded youth is described. (CB)

The article describes the establishment of a school based child guidance service for emotionally disturbed school children in a comprehensive school in England. (CD)

Four seven- to ten-year-old boys with autistic behavior were examined with behavioral and observational measures in a peer mediated training, an integrated generalization assessment, and a segregated generalization assessment setting. Results favored the developmentally integrated condition for increases of positive social behaviors. (Author/MC)

A study was made of six special units for children with special needs in secondary schools with emphasis on the relationship of the units to the main school and the organizational and curricular issues which arise in promoting integration. Staff and pupils benefit from the units, and students with varied disabilities are better integrated as a…

Special classes to facilitate the educational integration of the migrant workers' children teach the language of the host country and instruct in the students' languages some of the subjects that they will carry when placed in routine classes. (JH)

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…

APPROACHES TO EDUCATING ABLE STUDENTS OF 45 HIGH SCHOOLS WERE PRESENTED. MOST OF THE SPECIAL PROGRAMS FALL INTO ONE OF TWO CATEGORIES--SPECIAL CLASSES ORGANIZED IN PLACE OF REGULAR ONES, AND ATTEMPTS TO ENRICH OR ACCELERATE THOSE CLASSES ALREADY SCHEDULED. THE CURRICULUM OF MOST OF THE SCHOOLS FOR THESE STUDENTS INCLUDED ENGLISH, PHYSICAL SCIENCE,…

The report of the Memphis component of Project CLUE (Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education) which serves 600 academically gifted children in grades 4, 5, and 6 with a seminar program requiring 2 half day sessions weekly is presented, and the current expansion of the program into the junior high and first grade levels is noted. The centers are…

The selected bibliography on regular class placement and special classes for handicapped and gifted children contains approximately 70 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of July, 1972. Abstracts are…

The report describes the operation of various programs and parts of programs for the learning disabled (minimally brain damaged) child in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Covered are student characteristics, special class services available, supportive services (psychiatric, language development, vision, and sensory-motor activity services), and…

Results show that the incentive group students, as compared with the control group students, obtained significantly higher verbal, performance, and full IQ scores. This suggests that norm-referenced tests as diagnostic placement aids must be used with caution. (Author)