"They are asking for things that parents of nonhandicapped children would have no right to ask for."

The space for handicapped drivers up front had been taken by a nonhandicapped employee.

In some cases, the nonhandicapped "coach" works with a small group of retarded "clients."

The school now uses the nonhandicapped students as volunteers to help the disabled students.

Nonhandicapped very-low-birth-weight infants at one year of age developmental profile.

My heart sank at the use of the word "normal" to describe those students who share the regular classroom with their nonhandicapped peers.

Kiryas Joel's nonhandicapped students have always gone to private yeshivas.

"The law is working positively for the nonhandicapped," said Mr. Roth.

Mr. Minor said there was no reason why "the state must prove yet another rape, this time upon a nonhandicapped victim."

The cars that drive Doris Fields wild are those parked by nonhandicapped people in zones for the handicapped.

But the real effect of the federal law protecting the disabled is the abuse of services demanded by parents of nonhandicapped students.

The village's nonhandicapped students have always attended private yeshivas, but through the mid-80's, its handicapped children attended special education classes in Monroe-Woodbury schools.

And if she were properly outfitted with a prosthetic visual aid, she could perform any function any nonhandicapped person could do!

Sadly, multitudes of nonhandicapped graduates are not transformed, as if by magic, into a mental adult age through the act of receiving their high school diplomas.

Douglas Wood, Westport's First Selectman, or mayor, praised the program for raising the sensitivity of the nonhandicapped.

Integrating a handicapped child into a nonhandicapped environment may be beneficial in and of itself...even if the child cannot flourish academically."

The goal for providing a handicapped child with an education is the same goal for providing a nonhandicapped child with an education.

Proponents of the measure say that many excellent schools do not seek approval because they deal primarily with nonhandicapped students and could not possibly conform to all the standards the state imposes.

She wanted admiration for her technique, her skill, for how she had discarded disabled ski equipment for regular ski poles to produce faster times and fought successfully to compete in the same races with the nonhandicapped.

Other questions he expects to come up this week are the issue of temporary disabilities and how these are to be treated, and the question of keeping the cost equal to nonhandicapped drivers' costs when both a plate and a placard are provided.

Two recent grants totaling $65,000, awarded by the Office of Mental Retardation to the association's day training program, Mr. Spahn said , "will let us take two work crews into the business community and work side by side with nonhandicapped employees."

But Westport's Police Chief, William Chiarenzelli, and Officer Robert Quinn decided that with proper precautions, they could not only address the problem of illegal parkers, but also the pent-up frustrations of Westport's handicapped community about the attitude of many nonhandicapped people.

On busy days at shopping malls when both types of spaces are at a premium, I usually take the nonhandicapped space so as not to deprive someone who may need a handicapped space more than I. Recently, I left a handicapped space open and took a good nonhandicapped space.