Exceptional Children back issues from January 2007:
How variable are interstate prevalence rates of learning disabilities and other special education categories? A longitudinal comparison.
Jan 01, 2007; ... There has been chronic and widespread dissatisfaction with procedures used to identify students as learning disabled. Critics have especially questioned the use of ability-achievement discrepancy as a criterion for eligibility for special education services (Donovan & Cross, 2002; Fletcher ...
Constraints in the production of written text in children with specific language impairments.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are a vulnerable population. Practitioners, policy makers and researchers use a range of different terms to describe this population (see Lindsay, Dockrell, Mackie & Letchford, 2002). Moreover, a range of terms are used in Europe (dysphagia) ...
Is there a bidirectional relationship between children's reading skills and reading motivation?
Jan 01, 2007; ... Children who read frequently grow to become skillful readers (e.g., Guthrie, Schafer, & Huang, 2001; Juel, 1988; Senechal & LeFevre, 2002; Stanovich, 1986). Frequent reading contributes to growth in sight word recognition, vocabulary, verbal fluency, reading comprehension, and general ...
Scaling early reading alternate assessments with statewide measures.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Development of alternate assessments took a sharp turn in direction with the new regulations that announced the possibility of states having alternate achievement standards (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). With that announcement came further clarity on the alignment of assessments ...
Effectiveness of a highly rated science curriculum unit for students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
Jan 01, 2007; ... Scaling Up Curriculum for Achievement, Learning, and Equity Project (SCALE-uP) is a collaborative research endeavor between researchers at the George Washington University and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland. SCALE-uP is funded by the Interagency Education Research ...
Alternative route programs for certification in special education: program infrastructure instructional delivery, and participant characteristics.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The need for high-quality teachers--particularly in such high-demand areas as mathematics, science, and special education--has been a major impetus for the emergence and growth of alternative routes to certification (AR). Indeed, the U.S. Department of Education (2002, 2004) has proclaimed ...
Elementary and Middle Schools Technical Assistance Center: an approach to support the effective implementation of scientifically based practices in special education.
Jan 01, 2007; ... The U.S. government has supported the professional development of educators of children with disabilities for almost 50 years (see Martin, 1968). In the late 1960s the federal Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH) began making what were called practice improvement investments ...