SPECIAL EDUCATION IN THE MAINSTREAM: A CONFRONTATION OF LIMITATIONS?

Abstract

development of optimal or even appropriate programs.Funding support is frequently lacking or, at best, minimal.There are inadequate numbers of trained personnel and limited substantive information about teaching-learning conditions for exceptional pupils.Although in most cases sympathetic with the court and legislative mandates, educators, too, have limitations.In a number of programs for exceptional children, we may be approaching a "confrontation of limitations."Many current mainstream educational efforts may well be dramatic examples. MAINSTREAMING IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL CHANGEIn the broadest sense, mainstreaming refers to instruction of pupils within the regular educational setting.Said simply, the regular educational program is viewed as bearing primary responsibility for educating all pupils, including those with handicapping conditions.In a field frequently characterized by vested interests and provincialism, the enthusiastic and almost unanimous acceptance of "mainstreaming" as the optimal plan for educating most exceptional children is truly remarkable.Few educational innovations have so caught the fancy of special educators and parents alike, and a broad variety of mainstream educational programs for widely diverse exceptional pupils FOCUS ON EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN is published monthly except June, July, and August as a service to those concerned with mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed children.

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