Researchers have established higher rates of incarceration of the mentally retarded, learning disabled, and emotionally handicapped than for the general population. Several social trends, including the removal of status offenses as a basis for commitment to institutions and the increasing violence among youths in the general population, have contributed to the types and severity of exceptional youths in correctional facilities. The difficulties in obtaining effective correctional education teachers are compounded by the high rate of attrition among special education teachers for the emotionally disturbed. Educateur training, in which the special educateur is both teacher and therapist, provides one potential solution to this problem. Educateurs attend instructional and practical training programs for longer than conventional teacher training programs. The focus of the training is to use modeling as a way to teach mature, healthy behaviors to deviant youth. 56 references (Author abstract modified)