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The social integration of mainstreamed handicapped high school children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2015

J. L. Parker  and
Jenny Burrows
J. L. Parker
Affiliation:
School of Education, James Cook University of North Queensland
Jenny Burrows
Affiliation:
School of Education, James Cook University of North Queensland
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Abstract

The social integration (sociometric status) of 22 mainstreamed handicapped high school children was compared with that of their non-handicapped peers.

Results indicated that in friendship and work oriented situations the handicapped were less socially accepted than their nonhandicapped peers, more frequently identified as stars, and female handicapped students were more popular and accepted than the male handicapped.

A limitation of the study was its small sample size.

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Queensland Journal of Guidance and Counselling , Volume 1 , October 1987 , pp. 25 - 32
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1987

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