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- Title
Obstacles to Integrating Disabled Students in a "Two-Root" Elementary School.
- Authors
Mercer, Jane R.; Denti, Lou
- Abstract
This article describes a 5-year effort to integrate special and regular students on a campus where special and regular education students are housed in separate but adjacent facilities with separate administrators. Observational data and questionnaires revealed almost total segregation at the end of 3 years. An intensive intervention program, Project L.E. A.D., generated promising short-term movement toward integration, but there were few enduring effects. Physical, social, and psychological barriers created by the two-roof school erect almost insurmountable obstacles to integration. Future efforts should concentrate on building one-roof schools with a single facility and administration.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATION of people with disabilities; ELEMENTARY schools; SCHOOL integration; SEGREGATION in education; UNITED States education system
- Publication
Exceptional Children, 1989, Vol 56, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
0014-4029
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001440298905600106