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ERIC Number: EJ585741
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
"They Are My Best Friends": Peer Buddies Promote Inclusion in High School.
Hughes, Carolyn; Guth, Carol; Hall, Stacey; Presley, Judith; Dye, Marilee; Byers, Corie
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v31 n5 p32-37 May-Jun 1999
Describes the metropolitan Nashville Peer Buddy Program, a high school program that attempts to remove scheduling barriers to inclusion by providing daily class times in which participating general-education and special-education students may interact. Seven steps to starting a peer-buddy program are provided. (CR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, High Schools, Inclusive Schools, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Scheduling
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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