Segregation Vs Mainstreaming Among Children with Disabilities- Public Health Assignment- Literature Review

Internal Code: TV589 Segregation vs mainstreaming among children with disabilities Scenario: Regular teachers are now being required to mainstream mildly handicapped children at an unprecedented rate. This movement toward mainstreaming has resulted largely from the convictions of special educators who laud its praises. Mainstreaming is cited so frequently that one might mistakenly think it a magic elixir rather than a particular orientation toward supplying special education services for the majority of the mildly handicapped. It has been treated as if full participation in regular educational programs would overcome any adverse problems facing exceptional children. At present the emphasis is clearly away from self-contained practices as the primary form of special education service. Instead the literature is filled with resource-room and resource teaching articles indicative of a transitional stage approximating main- streaming (Barksdale & Atkinson, 1971; Glavin, Quay, & Werry, 1971; Hammill & Wiederholt, 1972; Sabatino, 1971; Weiner, 1969; etc.). These transitional forms still represent pullout programs, however, leading Berry (1973) to advocate bypassing transitional stages and integrating the majority of the handicapped directly into regular education classrooms. Neither the results of articles which were critical of mainstreaming (Franseth & Koury, 1966; Kolstoe, 1972; McKinnon, 1970; Roos, 1970; Vacc, 1968) nor the admission of methodological inadequacies within efficacy studies (Gallagher, 1967; Kirk, 1964; Mac-Millan, 1971; Nelson & Schmidt, 1971) has slowed down the mainstream movement. Interestingly, the most often quoted articles (Christopolos & Renz, 1969; Dunn, 1968; Johnson, 1962; Lilly, 1970) advocating alternatives to self-contained classrooms have not of themselves furnished original research to the data field. Instead they have been posited on a philosophical rather than a research foundation. Questions: Q1) Conduct a small literature review and identify what kind of similar or associated studies were conducted (based on the topic)