The Institution Special Education Program (ISEP) of the Northville (Michigan) Public Schools provides educational services for approximately 750 handicapped children and young adults from two major residential institutions. Of these students approximately 575 are between the ages of 14 and 26. In this article, the authors describe the ISEP and comment on some of the difficulties facing teachers of handicapped students at the secondary level. In a final section they discuss the implications of these problems for teacher selection and training.
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