Sophisticated techniques are rapidly replacing the crude adaptations of "normal" programs in curriculum, remediation, and learning environment design. (Author)

Discusses the case for identifying less restrictive categories and beginning a "desorting" process for the handicapped. (Author)

The revolution to establish for the handicapped the same right to an education that already exists for the nonhandicapped is being fought in school board rooms, State legislatures, and--perhaps most important--in the courts. (Author)

In the past two years more individuals than ever before have sued educational systems in the United States because of testing, labeling, and placement practices in the schools. Discusses solutions to those practices as they relate to special education in general and programs for the mentally retarded in particular. (Author/JF)

Contends that a New York "voucher plan," intended to serve more children in need of special services, is being abused. (Author)

Project Re-ED, initiated in Nashville, Tennessee, is a well-established, carefully tested model for intervening in the lives of children whose development has been interrupted by serious learning and behavior problems. Involves an eclectic, pragmatic approach combining features of therapy and behavior modification and centering on the social…

Describes a center--a highly developed play space--to teach sensory concepts (up, down, in, out, above, below, sweet, sour, hot, cold, loud, soft, and others) to blind children. (Author/JF)

Through the use of such support services as interpreting, note-taking, and tutors, deaf college students at California State University at Northridge compete with 25,000 hearing peers in an urban, liberal arts university setting. (Author)

Describes a school that emphasizes short-term goals to help achieve self-confidence. The adolescent program includes four interconnecting parts: the academic classroom; home economics; industrial arts; and an evening program of art, music, guidance, and physical education. (Author/JF)

New York State's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) now serve approximately 30,000 handicapped children, whose disabilities range from mild to severe. BOCES provide shared services to two or more member school districts that initiate the request when one or the other is unable to provide such services economically or efficiently…

Describes how a special needs team helps borderline children--those who have exhibited a weakness in certain areas but whose weakness is not serious enough to qualify them as children with special needs. (Author/JF)

A model of functional levels in diagnosis and intervention designed to return handicapped children to the mainstream. (Author)

New York's League School is developing a mini-network of day-school centers for seriously disturbed children in poverty areas. (Author)

Points out the benefits of the private residential school in special education. (JF)

The Special Teaching Unit of the Bank Street College of Education in New York City initiated a graduate program that emphasizes interaction between teacher-trainee and pupil. (JF)