This study examined the strategies teachers use to promote social play in a mainstreamed early childhood program that included five children with special needs and five nonhandicapped peers. Results indicated that teachers can successfully facilitate peer play through initiation of play, participation in group play, elaboration of group play, and…

This survey of 508 Alberta (Canada) classroom teachers, administrators, parents, university trainers, and resource room teachers found consistency in the overall responsibilities expected of, perceived by, and performed by resource room teachers. Implications for service delivery, for teachers and parents, and for government and administrators are…

This paper reviews literature-based techniques of intervention with posttraumatic stress disorder in children, including such techniques as crisis intervention, in vitro flooding, communication training, physical mastery, perspective taking, elimination of self-blame, and self-calming. (JDD)

This study of 198 parents of children ages 6 to 48 months found higher perceived levels of stress for parents of chronically ill and handicapped children, compared to parents of non-ill/nonhandicapped children. Parents of chronically ill children, however, scored higher on marital adjustment than parents in other groups. (Author/JDD)

This paper describes the efforts of a psychological consultation center in Israel to develop a psychological profile, a reading profile, and a learning method profile for students with dyslexia. The three profiles are described, and involvement of the regular classroom teacher in the consultation process is emphasized. (Author/JDD)

Regular classroom teachers and special education teachers (total n=130) were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward assessment reports written by other professionals. Results indicated lack of enthusiasm, hostility, and resignation to the assessments' perceived irrelevance and uselessness. (Author/JDD)

This paper argues that the ability to conduct structured interviews with students should be part of every mathematics teacher's repertoire of student assessment strategies. The paper discusses and illustrates interview strategies and skills and reviews assumptions about mathematical problem solving. (JDD)

Effects of a summer break on the math computation skills of students in grades five through seven classified as either learning disabled or nonspecial education low achievers were investigated. Results indicated that only fifth grade low-achieving students regressed significantly following a summer break. (Author/JDD)

This paper reviews parents' emotional reactions following the birth of a cleft lip/palate child. It examines when parents were told of the deformity and discusses the duties of the speech-language pathologist and the psychologist in counseling the parents and the child. (Author/JDD)

This paper examines the pressures placed on northern Manitoba (Canada) communities to meet provincial legislative requirements for certification of special education teachers, the special needs of native northerners, and principles guiding an appropriate education program. Special emphasis is given to the need for distance education and…

The article describes the new development in technology called "hypermedia." Discussed are the historical roots of hypermedia as well as a theoretical rationale for why hypermedia can be a powerful tool for making knowledge meaningful. Examples of prototype hypermedia environments for use with special-needs learners are presented. (Author/DB)

The article reviews a 10-year history of research on videodisc programs with handicapped and nonhandicapped students. A trend from hardware-intensive programs concerned with physical individualization and self-pacing to more modest hardware involvement and a greater attention to the teacher's role in both group and individual instructional…

The article concludes that videodiscs are an efficient medium, in combination with other instructional technologies, for teaching about teaching methods in special education but that they cannot provide practice in the actual performance of teaching skills and must be supplemented with live supervision. (DB)

Program Evaluation in 6 elementary school resource rooms (30 mildly handicapped students) found that students receiving the experimental program scored significantly higher on posttraining measures of peer acceptance and social skills. Experimental students also made a slightly greater improvement than controls in social behavior in natural school…

Described is "Genisys," an instructional program that teaches remedial and mildly handicapped students how to solve complex earth science problems. The program combines a 35-lesson videodisc course with a computer program which uses multiple rules for giving feedback, recycling missed exercises, and diagnosing underlying deficits in content area…