[A study of children with special needs in mainstream schools and the role of nursing teachers].

Objective: Principals of elementary schools and classroom teachers of classes for children with special needs were surveyed by questionnaire to identify the features of children with special needs in mainstream schools and the role of nursing teachers.

Methods: Subjects in Y prefecture were asked to consider several items including the following: 1) presence in class of children with special needs; 2) presence of a child with special needs who was a target of a class or a school for children with special needs; 3) presence of education for special needs experience; 4) obstacles that such children face; 5) the relation with a nursing teacher from June to August in 1998.

Results: 1.