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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