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Preparing for Contact between Mainstream Pupils and Their Counterparts Who Have Severe and Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities.
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Shevlin, Michael – British Journal of Special Education, 2003
This article describes an Irish video program that prepares mainstream students to meet incoming peers with severe, profound, and multiple disabilities, finding that students reacted positively to the video and found it helped relieve their anxieties at the prospect of contact. Implications for further development of structured contact sessions in…
Descriptors: Disability Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Multiple Disabilities
"But I Wouldn't Want to Go Back."
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Askew, Hilary; Thomas, David – British Journal of Special Education, 1987
The article focuses on administrative policy issues related to reintegration of students with emotional and behavioral difficulties from special into mainstream schools in England. Based on the results of interviews with administrators and teachers, readiness factors are discussed and administrative guidelines to prepare for reentry are outlined.…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Handwriting: One Measure of Orthofunction in Conductive Education.
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Aubrey, Carol; Sutton, Andrew – British Journal of Special Education, 1986
Results of a one-word handwriting task performed by 111 physically handicapped children (ages 6-12) at the Institute for Motor Disorders (Budapest, Hungary) are discussed in the context of conductive education, orthofunction (the ability to function independently without physical aids), and the organization of instructional programs in Hungary.…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Elementary Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Foreign Countries