Six legally blind students in a special class were provided with a system of airing any complaints. (DB)

Reported was a study on the effect of integrated and segregated educational settings, respectively, on the self concept of 100 educable mentally retarded adolescents. (GW)

Of 50 educators interviewed, 27 favored retention of special classes for the mildly exceptional child and 23 favored integration into regular classes. Teachers tended to prefer special classes; nonteaching educators (administrators, school psychologists) tended to favor regular class placement. (KW)

Followup and tie in between regular classrooms and gifted programs are essential for quality programing. "Ownership" of the program by the entire school community, including counselors, librarians, and administrators, is also important. (CL)

The author cites advantages of separate classes for gifted students, suggesting that they should be protected from teachers who do not understand them and school environments with which they are bored. (CL)

Argues that if mainstreaming is to be effective, specialists ans classroom teachers must combine efforts and work cooperatively to provide the most appropriate education for all children. (BF/JH)

This observational study compared instructional context, teacher behavior, and engaged behavior for 15 students with severe disabilities in general elementary classrooms and 15 similar students in self-contained classrooms. Students in general classrooms received more instruction through academic than functional activities and received more…

This study evaluated characteristics of 4 special language units serving 15 7-year-old children with specific language impairments within mainstream schools in England. The study compared curricular opportunities (e.g., individualization and social contexts) and standard assessment tasks under the National Curriculum for these children and 15…

A study of six gifted elementary students found that students in the homogeneous gifted class showed a greater increase in the number of control functions performed by the mind-machines they proposed, offered descriptions of their machines which were longer, more sophisticated, and more creative, and leap-frogged off of each others' ideas.…

School psychologists are seeking ways to expand their role in regular education, and to find new intervention techniques for working with at-risk and exceptional students. Literature may be used to introduce specific topics for discussion, to increase interest in reading for at-risk students, to build readiness skills, to reinforce classroom…

Children 5- to 8-years-old with educational, emotional and neurological problems received individualized instruction in a behavior modification oriented diagnostic class with emphasis on reentering the regular classroom. (CL)

Information was collected on 163 new pupils (7-14 years old) enrolled in classes for learning disabilities in Toronto during one calendar year. Among data collected were biographical as well as developmental/medical information about the students, information about each student's parents, educational and social histories, psychological data,…