Stainback, S.B. and W.C. Stainbeck. (1988). Educating students with severe
disabilities. Teaching Exceptional Children, 21, pp. 16-19.
The authors provide an overview of strategies for integrating students
with severe disabilities into regular classes. Strategies include:
designating a support facilitator; developing networks; encouraging
respect for all students; and using special education resources in
regular, integrated classrooms.
Stainback, S.B. and W.C. Stainback. (1985). Integration of Students with
Severe Handicaps into Regular Schools. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional
Children.
This introduction for classroom teachers provides information on how to
educate all students about individual differences and how to promote
interaction between students with and without handicaps. Two chapters
focus on teaching students with severe handicaps the social and related
skills needed to facilitate integration. The authors make positive
sugestions about how to promote the integration of students with severe
handicaps into regular school programs and activities.
Stainback, W.C., S.B. Stainback, L. Courtnage and T. Jaben. (1985).
Facilitating mainstreaming by modifiving the mainstreaming. Exceptional
Children, 52, pp. 144-152.
This article eyamines some of the problems in the current organizational
structure of schools that hinder regular classroom teachers from being
able to adapt their instruction to meet diverse student needs.
They suggest a framework for finding a solution.
