Adjustmerit; Sociometric Techniques4 Student Teacher

Investigated with five communication handicapped and four model (notWai) children were communication patterns and friendship choices in a mainstreamed preschool setting. A review of literature revealed a controversy as to whether mainstreamed communication handicapped children receive appropriate verbal models and whether mainstreaming helps develop the social skills of the handicapped children. Scan sampling procedures were used to collect data over a 6-week period on potential social/communication interactions, and each child was seen individually for a sociometric investigation of positive and negative choices for playing with and talking to classmates. ReSults of the study of interactions indicated that teachers were doing the most talking and the handicapped children were being talked to the least by their peers. No patterns could be established through a comparison of the sociometric choices