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Publication Date: 1976-Apr
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Mainstreaming and Its Effects on the Delivery of Services to the Handicapped: The Speech, Language and Hearing Special Educator.
Blanchard, Marjorie; Nober, E. Harris
A survey questionnaire was distributed to 211 speech and hearing clinicians to assess the changes in the special education process resulting from Massachusetts Special Education Law--Chapter 766, which calls for mainstream reform in the form of individually planned educational programs which involve parents in the educational planning process. Information was gathered in the following areas: general demographic variables (such as clinician's work experience, level of training, and changes in current and pre-Chapter 766 caseload population); attitudes comparing the pre-766 and current importance of 35 specific competencies in such skill areas as identification, evaluation, and therapy; changes in types of professional programs and activities in which clinicians are currently involved as compared to pre-766; and changes in clinicians' caseload profile subsequent to implementation of Chapter 766. Among survey results were that speech and hearing clinicians described a wide spectrum of increased services; that caseload profile changes were notable toward the more organic and central nervous system type problems; and that clinicians needed more experience in working with the younger ages. (Tables presenting statistical data are provided.) (SB)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Delivery Systems, Educational Trends, Equal Education, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments, Hearing Therapy, Individualized Education Programs, Individualized Instruction, Mainstreaming, Questionnaires, Speech Handicaps, Speech Therapy, State Legislation, State Surveys, Therapists
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